Parking methods, possibly causing damage, dicsussed here
www.honestjohn.co.uk/redirect.php?http://www.hones...e
|
Yes Armitage, I have advocated that in the past. However it shouldn't cause damage if you do it right. I agree that a lot of modern cars don't have bumpers, just silly bits of flimsy trim the better to gouge pedestrians (whatever the manufacturers may claim).
I'm afraid I learned this technique from Frenchmen and Americans.
In my own defence, I wd say that if I do make a mark on someone's valance by accident, I leave a note with phone number.
|
|
|
|
'I agree.....it's the action of a bully.......i.e. not brave enough to confront the driver personally, but brave enough to sneak up when no-one else is about & cause some damage'
Not neccessarily-I once returned to my properly parked car to find someone had parked accross thus blocking me in.With a lot of tooing and froing I managed to wriggle out,but my temper had built to such an extent I got out and gave the offending vehicle a good boot in the door.I certainly was not going to waste more time waiting for the driver to return so that I could confront them,besides which if they cannot see the obvious,or do not care,not much point in telling them.BTW it was a dented and battered heap anyway.
|
|
I agree Lud, not something I would ever consider doing, no matter hopw enraged. It's just not in my make-up.
|
|
Plus, Baz, I would imagine you´ll be parking as far away as possible from any other vehicle for the foreseeable future - assuming you´re letting the GTV out of your sight at all, that is....
|
When the C Class Mercedes has just come out, I returned to my car parked at the side of the road in the end space, to find one parked 6" away behind mine on double-yellow lines.
After waiting for ten minutes, I got so annoyed, I reversed into it with my towbar and pushed it back, the towbar went through the bumper and number plate and made awful crunching and cracking sounds, but it was their fault. That is the only time I damaged someone else's car with a wilful decision.
|
|
|
|
I don't get the connection between Lud's comments about malicious damage and someone berating him for nudge parking. They're not the same. I nudge bumpers from time to time if it's appropriate but I would never key a car or snap an ariel off.
|
BBD. Lud's reported technique is
And when they are stupidly parked so as not to leave you quite enough room, you can sometimes overwhelm their handbrakes and shove them along a bit.
It would be hard to achieve this in cars with modern plastic trim (jokingly called bumpers) without doing damage to both cars, I suggest. He does say that if he causes damage he leaves a note but it sounds like basic vandalism to me!
|
it sounds like basic vandalism tome!
Oh dear, you do go on.
Obviously I don't do it with absurd modern thingies, just cars with bumpers. I have never damaged a car visibly by pushing it. Valance marking is the sort of thing that happens corner-to-corner, by accident, when parking in a tight place.
The other thing worth mentioning is that shunting is not a technique even a thug like me uses every day, only very rarely.
BBD uses the expression 'nudge parking'. That is quite commonplace in locations where there are a lot of cars tightly parked. You know, crash, crash, crash, oh sorry was that your car mate? Well, it's not much good now. Here is my brief''s secretary's husband's email address, if I've got it right (does runner).
Honestly.
|
Maybe I do go on but you are inconsistent! In one post you tell us that if you damage a car you leave a note for the owner and in another (your latest) you say that you have never damaged a car visibly by pushing it. You haven't got your story straight and some of us are confused. I agree it is isn't worth bothering about, unless one has been shunt parked!
|
I wouldn't damage a parked car. There's the moral aspect, but also what if you get seen, and recorded on CCTV? And what if the owner is Kenneth Noye's evil big brother?
I once had to wait ages to get a space in a Bath car park, and saw some selfish oaf had parked across two spaces so as to prevent anyone from damaging his car by opening a door against it. If there had been a handy dog turd and a long stick nearby, there's no doubt where the turd would have gone.
|
|
|
|
I found a smudge of white paint on my car with a matching bit of my paint on another car - they'd obviously nudged my car, realised, and parked further down the street in the hope I wouldn't notice.
|
|
You've just got to be sensible, you don't rub plastic on plastic to push somebody's shiny new s-class down the road, but rubber on rubber with a middle-aged Escort is ok just to be sure that you're using the maximum space available. My 406 doesn't look any worse the wear for it kissing a few cars on occasion. Bumpers get scuffed, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but coming back to find your mirrors missing at the hands of a local scrote is entirely another matter.
|
|
You haven't got your story straight and some ofus are confused
I have got my story straight, to the extent that it's a story. And you aren't confused, you're just trying to wind me up.
I have never damaged a car visibly by pushing it.
I have marked someone's rear valance - an old shape Megane but a very nice one - accidentally when parking, just a small scrape but visible. I left them a note. They didn't think it was worth getting in touch.
Must say I'm glad it wasn't you Armitage. God knows where that would have ended.
|
|
Now BBD is a rational man, as well as an amusing hooligan of the right sort.
|
|
My loved ones have caused far more damage to the insides with lollies, milk, tic tacs and fags. Life is much less disappointing when you come to accept inevitabilities like death, kids leaving home and stone chips.
|
Saturday 19.46. Quote from Lud
"a thug like me "
Says it all really!
Ever damaged a an automatic tranmission car by nudging it with the transmission locked? Not visible damage I agree but could be very pricey.
|
only time i have damaged another car with malicious intent
car pulls up next to me (im parked up in a car park), parks up, plenty of space, no problems so far, but then the idiot goes on to open his door with such force into the side of my car that the whole car shook
he had probably failed to notice there was someone in my car
he probably does this regularly
anyways without a second thought, without saying a word, i promptly lean over open the passenger door full force into his
end result both cars with massive dents, mine was a company car anyways and i really didnt need to care
he didnt say a word just watched and wandered off
|
Only damage I ever caused was pushing someones mirror around that had half parked on the pavement. Normally a mirror just folds around or pops off it's connecting mount and swings in the wind. However, this time it came clean off in my hands. Upon closer inspection I could see the mounts had previously been broken and all that was holding it to the car was the ball and socket joints. Rather than re-attaching it though, I just lodged it on the windscreen wiper in the hope the driver would get the message not to park on the pavement in future. On reflection though maybe that's how it got broke in the first place.
I do however give my full support to pushchair and mobility scooter users who scrape along the side of inconsiderately parked cars on pavements and the like.
|
Ever damaged a an automatic tranmission car by nudging it with the transmission locked? Not visible damage I agree but could be very pricey.
Honestly Armitage!
With the transmission locked, an automatic car won't move. You would need a tractor to slide it along wheels locked. If you had say a VW Phaeton or something, you might move it but that would make visible damage for sure.
'A thug like me'... have you no sense of irony man?
Yer BUMBOCLAAT!
|
No, but I have a sense of the ridiculous and you fit it exactly! I don't understand Swahili so your flattering compliment passed me by.
|
No, but I have a sense of the ridiculous and you fit it exactly!
Hmmm....
|
I don't understand Swahili so your flatteringcompliment passed me by.
Jamaican actually Armitage. I realise you may have taken it as an insult, and been suckered into betraying your own principles in the matters of sarcasm and rudeness.
It isn't, it's just an oath that I figured the swear filter wouldn't know, used in exasperation with your wilful confusion of malicious damage with accidental bumper scuffs. In the fifties, I am told, you could be fined £5 for uttering it in public in Jamaica.
We are the same age, an unseemly one for pointless squabbling.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
