Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?

Carpark 'Ding' - Am I over reacting?

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Kentish

15,169 posts

233 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I was sitting in the passenger side of my Vivaro (van) in a shopping centre car park a couple of years ago and some lad and his mate pulled up in a tatty Fester ST.

Open came the door & banged hard into my van on the drivers side, he then sat and smoked a fag with door resting on mine.

I don't think he had noticed me in my van but I got out walk around to his door and closed it.

He jumped out and had a right go at me (cheeky ), so I had a go at him for his lack of awareness and respect.

He then offered to kick my head in and came at me; I opened the door of the van and picked up a club hammer smile

He decided to back off and walked off to MacDonalds swearing at me.

I gestured to smash his car with the hammer to wind him up but didn't and his mate had to restrain him.

Quite comical!

LordHaveMurci

12,034 posts

168 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Kentish said:
I was sitting in the passenger side of my Vivaro (van) in a shopping centre car park a couple of years ago and some lad and his mate pulled up in a tatty Fester ST.

Open came the door & banged hard into my van on the drivers side, he then sat and smoked a fag with door resting on mine.

I don't think he had noticed me in my van but I got out walk around to his door and closed it.

He jumped out and had a right go at me (cheeky ), so I had a go at him for his lack of awareness and respect.

He then offered to kick my head in and came at me; I opened the door of the van and picked up a club hammer smile

He decided to back off and walked off to MacDonalds swearing at me.

I gestured to smash his car with the hammer to wind him up but didn't and his mate had to restrain him.

Quite comical!
Hope I never meet you in a car park eek

decadent

2,134 posts

174 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I had a similar occurance, we were eating our lunch at a service station. Vauxhall Zafira pulls up next to me. Out the woman from the zafira climbs slamming her door into my car (i had a dent the size of half an inch).

I immediately got out, looked at it and asked her what she was playing out. She told me to fk off and walked off with her husband and rug rats.

I desparately wanted to cut their brake lines.

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Kentish said:
I was sitting in the passenger side of my Vivaro (van) in a shopping centre car park a couple of years ago and some lad and his mate pulled up in a tatty Fester ST.

Open came the door & banged hard into my van on the drivers side, he then sat and smoked a fag with door resting on mine.

I don't think he had noticed me in my van but I got out walk around to his door and closed it.

He jumped out and had a right go at me (cheeky ), so I had a go at him for his lack of awareness and respect.

He then offered to kick my head in and came at me; I opened the door of the van and picked up a club hammer smile

He decided to back off and walked off to MacDonalds swearing at me.

I gestured to smash his car with the hammer to wind him up but didn't and his mate had to restrain him.

Quite comical!
But you still ended up with a dented door while he laughed at you and ate his chicken nuggets. You should at least have let his tyres down and pointed it out to him when he returned then waved bye bye.

Kentish

15,169 posts

233 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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LordHaveMurci said:
Hope I never meet you in a car park eek
smile

Well, had I not picked up the hammer, he'd have started throwing punches.

He was clearly either nuts or showing off to his mate.

What puzzled me was why he walked off leaving me beside his car with a hammer, I'd have driven off!

I wouldn't have used the hammer on him or his car of course but the threat of it certainly calmed him down (until I it above the roof of his car, then he went ballistic from a distance away).

I have kicked in the door of a car that belonged to someone who keyed my car badly; that was quite satisfying. My crime was that I had parked in his unmarked parking space (despite never having frequented the car park previously, I was supposed to know apparently).

Clivey

5,108 posts

203 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
But you still ended up with a dented door while he laughed at you and ate his chicken nuggets. You should at least have let his tyres down and pointed it out to him when he returned then waved bye bye.
Too much trouble. - Just jump up and down on the knobber's roof a couple of times.

MikeT66

2,680 posts

123 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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A couple of years ago, when I still had the Ford KA, I parked in an on-street parking bay, leaving MrsT66 in the car while I popped into a shop. I came back 10 minutes later to find her having a furious argument with another woman on the pavement.

It transpired that not long after I’d walked off, a Honda 4x4 has tried to manoeuvre into the bay in front of the KA. It reversed back, hit the KA, and carried on going, the raised bumper of the 4x4 riding up over the low bonnet of the KA. It the moved forward before reversing again – straight back onto the bonnet of the KA for a second time. As MrsT66 clambered out of the KA the 4x4 reversed again, hitting the KA for a third time and again riding up over the KA’s bonnet.

MrsT66 ran to the driver’s side of the Honda and banged on the window, shouting at the woman driver to stop. Eventually she got the woman driver to get out of the 4x4 and look at the damage she’d caused to the KA. Asked why she hit a an object three times (and trying for a fourth) she said “it’s how I always park – I usually hit the kerb… it’s how I know when to stop.” She then said she “didn’t see the KA there” when she reversed, and accused MrsT66 of moving the KA deliberately into the path of the 4x4. When MrsT66 told her that there weren’t any keys in the KA (I had them) and asked for insurance details, the 4x4 driver got rather aggressive – yes, the line “it’s only a bl**dy car” (or did she mean “it’s only a bl**dy KA?”) and accused MrsT66 of possibly scratching the driver’s window of the Honda when she banged on it.

I managed to get them both calmed down before taking photographs of the damage – all the time to a litany of “who cares/for f**k’s sake, they’re only cars, what’s your problem? Are you going to take pictures of my window as it might be scratched” etc. I pointed out the massive gouged marks (down to bare metal) up the KA’s bonnet – which she tried to rub out by spitting on her hand and wiping the area.

I asked her why she wasn’t bothered about the damage to her own car – “it’s only a Motability car, who cares?" I managed to get the details though, and the bonnet repainted.

OP – you got off lightly!

Hol

8,359 posts

199 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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ferrariF50lover said:
He should have apologised (well, he SHOULD have been more careful), but it's a tiny, tiny dab of paint which will come off with 2 minutes work.

I think you're just the right amount of pissed off and with the correct element of the thing too. Good work.

Simon.
This,

Any reasonable person would done everything to avoid said 'accident' and then apologised straight away if the door had gotten away from them.

As much as you would have liked to beat him until his ear drums burst, the world today is a little bit less intolerant of that sort of behaviour than they are of the door dingers/ social parasites. So you did the right thing.


Zelda Pinwheel

500 posts

197 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Clivey said:
The only way to deal with these knobs is to teach them a lesson...and I don't mean a minor inconvenience. - The authorities don't care about parking damage etc. and so these cretins know that in the majority of cases, they'll get away with it.

I can't wait until I've got some chunky rock sliders fitted to my Discovery. smokin
best thing ever fitted to my Defender. Sitting in a fairly empty car park, waiting for the OH return. Muppet pulls into space next to me, a little too close for my liking but hey, I'm already behind the wheel, and am not planning on getting out.

"Doink"

"Doink"

"Doink"

I slide the window open, and advise said muppet that no matter how many times he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's not going to open any further, and no matter how HARD he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's only going to damage his door even further.

Blank, uncomprehending stare from the muppet.

"Doink"


Clivey

5,108 posts

203 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Zelda Pinwheel said:
best thing ever fitted to my Defender. Sitting in a fairly empty car park, waiting for the OH return. Muppet pulls into space next to me, a little too close for my liking but hey, I'm already behind the wheel, and am not planning on getting out.

"Doink"

"Doink"

"Doink"

I slide the window open, and advise said muppet that no matter how many times he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's not going to open any further, and no matter how HARD he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's only going to damage his door even further.

Blank, uncomprehending stare from the muppet.

"Doink"
rofl

The kind of person that puts their hand back into the flame to see if it hurts a second time.

Swanny87

1,265 posts

118 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
Kentish said:
I was sitting in the passenger side of my Vivaro (van) in a shopping centre car park a couple of years ago and some lad and his mate pulled up in a tatty Fester ST.

Open came the door & banged hard into my van on the drivers side, he then sat and smoked a fag with door resting on mine.

I don't think he had noticed me in my van but I got out walk around to his door and closed it.

He jumped out and had a right go at me (cheeky ), so I had a go at him for his lack of awareness and respect.

He then offered to kick my head in and came at me; I opened the door of the van and picked up a club hammer smile

He decided to back off and walked off to MacDonalds swearing at me.

I gestured to smash his car with the hammer to wind him up but didn't and his mate had to restrain him.

Quite comical!
But you still ended up with a dented door while he laughed at you and ate his chicken nuggets. You should at least have let his tyres down and pointed it out to him when he returned then waved bye bye.
Steering full lock to the right, drive out of space. As the rear of the van swings round it will likely catch the door and do some considerable damage. That'll learn the . I imagine this is even more effective if your driving a LWB van.

Richyboy

3,739 posts

216 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Be good if there was a paintwork like the skin of a shark, so the idiot damages her car when she wants to tango lol.




McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Zelda Pinwheel said:
best thing ever fitted to my Defender. Sitting in a fairly empty car park, waiting for the OH return. Muppet pulls into space next to me, a little too close for my liking but hey, I'm already behind the wheel, and am not planning on getting out.

"Doink"

"Doink"

"Doink"

I slide the window open, and advise said muppet that no matter how many times he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's not going to open any further, and no matter how HARD he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's only going to damage his door even further.

Blank, uncomprehending stare from the muppet.

"Doink"
Had similar

I spotted our thickest apprentice at work sat in his car.

So as a joke i parked inches from his door.


His reaction was to angrily repeatedly slam his door as hard as possible into the side of my landrover which also has tree sliders

Left a nice dent


In his door

PowerslideSWE

1,116 posts

137 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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W/O reading the rest of replies. NO, youre not picky, it's not that hard to open a car door in a car park without slamming the door against the car beside yours. Ppl need to respect other peoples property.

Calza

Original Poster:

1,979 posts

114 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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The Crack Fox said:
Shorts, white socks and trainers?! Sartorial suicide, OP.
biggrin I'd just came out the gym, they're actually 3/4 length trackies!

Snollygoster

1,538 posts

138 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Not over reacting in the slightest. Hate people who do this. It's fact they think it's okay is just more infuriating.

This has happened to me once in my life, on a very windy day, and the door just went. It went into an old Ford Escort with the plastic runners on the side. I felt awful. Wasn't any real damage, just a little scuff on the side of the plastic but I still wrote a note and left it on the windscreen apologising with my number. Never got a phone call.

I'm that person who parks the complete opposite end of the car park now days, but some van always finds it's way to park next me.

Hol

8,359 posts

199 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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McWigglebum4th said:
Zelda Pinwheel said:
best thing ever fitted to my Defender. Sitting in a fairly empty car park, waiting for the OH return. Muppet pulls into space next to me, a little too close for my liking but hey, I'm already behind the wheel, and am not planning on getting out.

"Doink"

"Doink"

"Doink"

I slide the window open, and advise said muppet that no matter how many times he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's not going to open any further, and no matter how HARD he doinks his door against my tree slider, it's only going to damage his door even further.

Blank, uncomprehending stare from the muppet.

"Doink"
Had similar

I spotted our thickest apprentice at work sat in his car.

So as a joke i parked inches from his door.


His reaction was to angrily repeatedly slam his door as hard as possible into the side of my landrover which also has tree sliders

Left a nice dent


In his door
Similar as in completely different?

ZP had some tt park to close that he couldn't open his doors.
You however, deliberately blocked someone in, so that he could not get out of his car without damaging it cos you thought it was funny


I wonder, if you actually got the point of this thread?

1983shj

107 posts

219 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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That would never happen in a Waitrose car park! smile

fathomfive

9,876 posts

189 months

Saturday 1st November 2014
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1983shj said:
That would never happen in a Waitrose car park! smile
No, they have butlers who bang the doors for you.

spikey78

701 posts

180 months