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what a shame you cant leave your pride and joy in your own drive without somebody being jealus of it
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Yes, I agree
I have a scuff mark, and a (rubbishly patched up by me) scratch down the side of my Astra, because some "yoofs" thought they scould try and kick of the driver door mirror. I know it was "yoofs" becasue on the side of the road was there muddy trainer that i put in the bin that must of come off after they hit the side of the car.
I really hope one day, they get a car and someone does the same to them. see how they liek it - it makes me so angry!
Scum!
Edited by redviper on 23/04/2009 at 13:11
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yes redviper thats my feelings too
i have this vision though that some yoofs on their push bikes do some damage to my car and i catch them and drive over all their push bikes so they are torn and twisted just like me
so the wife says ;-(
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they are torn and twisted just like me so the wife says ;-(
Ive made it very clear to SWMBO, that I would do something similer, and if thats a prison offence i would hop and skip all the way into the cell, it makes me so angry as i work hard for my things that someone is narrow minded to do something like this! -
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Sadly it's not mindless. This scum knows exactly what it is doing. It's a vicious and intentional desire to hurt their fellow citizens.
Edited by AlanGowdy on 23/04/2009 at 14:20
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Poor girl. Yes, people are poo, pants and all the rest of it. But you never know whether the vandals are whippersnappers with low-slung trousers or neat middle-aged folk in spectacles.
The answer of course is the CCTV that makes everyone so paranoid. That way you may be able to identify the culprit. When you do, don't descend to their level by damaging their property. Damage them as thoroughly as possible - recruit some heavily built tattooed friends if need be - and have your day in court.
It's fairly pointless to seek redress in the form of compensation. Seeing the toerag's blood on the floor would make you feel much better.
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I'd suspect one of her ex-boyfriends, or similar ...
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With reference to the original post, I don't imagine it's a random attack. For someone to create that level of damage they have to be known to the owner, especially with it being a very specific car, I don't imagine it's easy to make a mistake.
Still doesn't make it any less wrong to have that done.........
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First of all what happened was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.
However, should we be surprised? This girl has spent £10k doing up her car and, by all accounts, she received previous publicity over it.
Out in the big bad world there is scum of all ages who will do unbelieveable and nasty things. And I don't want to appear nasty but the reality is that if you are going to make yourself stand out, there will be someone out there to shoot you down.
Now I am not saying this is right, the exact opposite, but what I am saying is it should not be too unexpected.
Like when I got my first car, I had a crooklock thing on it as my dad advised that you don't want your car to get a second glance, it is sometimes the second glance that is trouble.
Sad state of the world we live in.
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Sadly horribly common in modern Britain. Without CCTV, the odds of being caught are virtually nil, and it's a cheap laugh for the cretinous.
I agree that the nature of the car probably had some influence, but it happens to dull motors all the time. I had a standard people carrier keyed all down one side in a prosperous Surrey town back in February. A friend had her nondescript burgundy Ford Ka jumped on and badly damaged by a passing chav last weekend, although said chav was caught and cautioned for criminal damage.
Too many people in this country have never been taught right from wrong, or to have any respect anything they don't directly value. It's getting worse too.
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cautioned for criminal damage.
What use is that? A 'caution' goes in one ear and out of the other.
A ball and chain until the victim has been fully compensated to, say, twice the value of the criminal damage to soothe their feelings... Now that would work. Can't understand why people are so squeamish about chain gangs, say, to clean the streets and remove offensive (but not inoffensive) graffiti, with wages going straight to the compensation fund. It's a spectacle I would enjoy. And it would work.
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spectacle I would enjoy. And it would work.
It does in Australia, community service is hard labour in orange overalls.
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snip
Your second post in this thread with an attempt to disguise swearing. So this one goes in it's entirety.
Rob (Moderator)
Edited by rtj70 on 23/04/2009 at 22:54
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Edited by rtj70 on 24/04/2009 at 00:21
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Sadly it's not mindless. This scum knows exactly what it is doing. It's a vicious and intentional desire to hurt their fellow citizens.
Nothing to do with 'fellow citizens' full stop. It is a British disease. A disease borne of envy and the inability to get off of their backsides and generate somethink (sic) for themselves. They all know their rights whether 'Human' or some other unsubstantiated sort, BUT none of them know their DUTIES.
Help those that genuinely require same, but let those go that won't play the game.
A cull is in order...................MD
Edited by rtj70 on 23/04/2009 at 22:44
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I can't imagine anyone being jealous of such a hideous contraption as that car.
However, having just been to Tamworth this evening (not a terribly salubrious destination), I have noted that almost all cars modified such as this young ladies' are driven atrociously, dangerously, nay downright recklessly, and make a hell of a racket. I wouldn't be surprised if the damage was due to local neighbours fed up with her car or her driving.
(By the way, can I be clear that I am absolutely NOT condoning the damage caused to the car. It's pointless, won't render it undriveable or anything. Now a skip on top of it...... ;-) )
Edited by rtj70 on 23/04/2009 at 22:56
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I have never met the girl so can't comment. There are a few cars that pass my house at night that I would be quite happy for this to happen to them. The cars have santa-pod exhausts and are driven by inconsiderate yobs and jobless labour louts.
Edited by Hamsafar on 23/04/2009 at 23:43
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there are chav cars and custom cars
please be aware of a difference
i always have something custom ish either to run or sell and i hate noisy exhausts
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Oh come on BB!
A 911 at full howl. Priceless.
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i preferred sammy miller at santa pod in the 70"s with hisjet car
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i preferred sammy miller at santa pod in the 70"s with hisjet car
Sammy Miller of Trials fame??
VBR.......MD
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no
he was american
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Yeah.
I think I heard that in Luton.
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I went and camped at the 'Pod' a couple of times in the mid Seventies. *WOW* what an experience and the smell of the fuel etc. No, not the Lager. Happy times. Riding an RD350 if I recall. Miss it like hell.
Best................MD
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i lived in bishops stortford in the lateish 70"s and was always going to the pod,
happy days,
dammed cold being full of cheap drink and kipping in the back of an old eccie van in november though to see the finals
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'an old eccie van ' ?...luxury undreamt of !
Spent the night in an Austin J4 van with 13 others after our tents disappeared in the night in Middleton in Teesdale. On a sponsored 'Pennine Way ' walk about 1963.
So many in van that if you moved a limb, a bit of someone else would flow into the space you'd left and you couldn't get back. The condensation dripping off the steel roof was like acid !
Prefer a hotel now !
Ted
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As much as I sympathise with the owner, I'm just surprised that someone who spends that much time and money tarting up a car doesn't keep it in a garage. In this day and age of low moral standards, keeping something as extrovert and noticeable as that on her drive is just asking for trouble.
Edited by L'escargot on 24/04/2009 at 08:23
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"asking for trouble"- your having a laugh. Anyone should be able to keep anything on their drive without it being touched-even the crown jewels!. If the scum were locked up and the key lost, then this general problem would be cured. Personally I would prefer to give them a 9mm to the back of the head.
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...If the scum were locked up and the key lost, then this general problem would be cured....
There's no fear of detection and no fear of punishment, so Jonny Toerag thinks quite rightly he's most unlikely to be caught and if he is, the punishment will be so lenient as to be non-existent.
So, if as Jonny is about to throw the brick, you could say to him: "I'm not trying to stop you, but if you do throw the brick, you will be arrested, beaten and kept in custody for years", Jonny would put the brick down and skulk away.
In reality, of course, Jonny can afford to ignore you, because he knows nothing will happen to him.
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Personally I would prefer to give them a 9mm to the back of the head
A tiny little spanner like that wouldn't hurt much, try using a 21mm ;-)
Edited by Dave_TD {P} on 24/04/2009 at 22:20
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"asking for trouble"- your having a laugh.
I said "In this day and age of low moral standards .......... "
In my younger days you could prop your bicycle up (without it being padlocked and chained) with the pedal on the edge of the kerb anywhere in the country and know it would still be there when you returned, no matter how long you left it there. And it wasn't because people were so well off that a bicycle wasn't worth stealing. In fact far from it ~ the majority people who owned bicycles bought them secondhand.
Unfortunately those days have long gone. Moral standards have always gone up and down in cycles (no pun) and will eventually get better again ~ but I don't expect it to happen in my lifetime.
Edited by L'escargot on 25/04/2009 at 08:37
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You could prop your bicycle up with the pedal on the edge of the kerb anywhere in the country ..
Yes you could, Snail. But the villain in this story wasn't interested in nicking the girl's car, just ruining it (possibly because he couldn't nick it I suppose). That's a different kind of moral vacuity.
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...That's a different kind of moral vacuity...
True, but the impact on the victim is much the same.
It will be no comfort to her that he didn't burgle her house while he was on the premises.
Edited by ifithelps on 25/04/2009 at 12:10
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