woman reversed into van - laughed about it.

[jodypress]

GC8 said:

The 'square' in a cul-de-sac is actually a TURNING AREA! It isn't there to park in, it is there for people to turn around in.

Except perhaps in the OP's case when as he's stated a few posts earlier the "square" part is marked with parking space lines. Hence NOT a turning area.

[GC8]

Fair enough. A point still worth making though, as the majority dont seem to have realised.

[croyde]

Last week I parked my motor cycle in the parking bay opposite to where I live. There was a woman sitting in a Micra and I was at least 2 metres in front of her.

As I locked it and went to leave, she's looking at me, pointing to my bike and spreading her arms in a 'what on earth do you think you are doing' sort of way.

I asked her what was up and she said that I had blocked her in. Not only did she have loads of space in front, the bay had a whole car space of emptyness behind her.

I did think she was joking but it turned out that she had no idea that the steering wheel could be moved more than a few degrees in each direction.

I had to direct her out like you would a truck.

How do these people get licences?

[Tuvra]

croyde said:

A lot of the women drivers I know are like that. Giggle and 'Oops' and 'It's only a car' and drive off.

I seen a young girl rear end a Ferrari 360 Spider once at the lights, she appeared to start pissing herself with laughter, was most strange

[baptistsan]

croyde said:

I have had new cars and would love to get another, the new Mustang in V8 please, but I won't as having a decent car is just too much of a worry unless you have pots of spare cash to keep repairing it.

My main daily is a E36 Beemer bought back in '98. I used to despair at the keyings, scrapes and parking dings that it collected but I just make sure it's serviced at the correct times and important stuff is repaired when needed.

The exterior is battle scarred but not rusty and it does keep people away in heavy traffic

Means I don't have to worry about where I leave it and when it collects another ding (Big scrape a few weeks ago and another keying, come on! how can you be jealous of a 16 year old car worth maybe £500) I just shrug and carry on.

Feel exactly the same way. Such a sad state of affairs though. Some people just don't seem to give a st about other's property. The FTO is battle scarred, but like you I just shrug it off. She did receive a lovely scrape down the front wing in the car park at work a few months back. No one fessed up

[AndStilliRise]

Went to an interview came out and the badge from the bonnet had been removed.

Over the summer the car was under a cover yet someone decided to lift the cover up and key the 3/4 panel for me - which i thought was a lovely thing to do. Especially as I am not particularly rich and got more going out than in.

There was also the time when I had just got the thing and my previous neighbour (Jealous lonely middle age women) deceides to key the car as she is walking past.

M5 owners never seem to have an easy life!

[croyde]

Bloody hell!!

Did you see her do it? What happened?

[furtive]

Pixelpeep7r said:

explaining the DSG gearbox to my other half

The long winter nights must fly by in your house

[fatjon]

Blakewater said:

I don't get this kind of attitude. A friend of mine broke her phone dropping it and just had to get the latest iPhone to replace it. A few weeks later she pulled that out of her bag with the screen all cracked and said she'd dropped that one as well. Why do people have to have the latest brand new things but treat them carelessly and not give a st when they damage them? If image matters it's not a very good image if everything you have is battered to bits. It probably is the people who have it all paid for by someone else.

Yup, like my 13 yera old son. New Iphone lasted a week, insurance replacement Samsung lasted a month. Now he can live with the cracked screen until HE can afford to replace it.

[Hol]

Tuvra said:

croyde said:

A lot of the women drivers I know are like that. Giggle and 'Oops' and 'It's only a car' and drive off.

I seen a young girl rear end a Ferrari 360 Spider once at the lights, she appeared to start pissing herself with laughter, was most strange

Interesting, when you consider that their accident statistics are supposed to be so low.

[JuanGandini]

This sort of behaviour drives me fricking mental!

My 3 month old M135i (yes on a lease!) ;-) was damaged by some stupid girl who decided that reversing out of a driveway and straight into my car on the other side of the road was acceptable. She promptly drove off without a word or leaving a note, or even getting out to inspect the damage. Luckily a neighbour saw it happen.

I reported her to the police the next day after she failed to get back to my numerous voicemails (got her number from her friends who lived at the house from which she'd departed). Police got a statement from the witness but decided to take no action. At which point the girl decided to tell her insurers that there was no impact with my car therefore there couldn't have been any damage. tt!

4 months later and I'm still waiting for the police to send their report to my insurance company so they have a record of the witness statement showing the third party's liability. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for a booking space at the BMW bodyshop to get the damage fixed @ £900!

[croyde]

fatjon said:

Blakewater said:

I don't get this kind of attitude. A friend of mine broke her phone dropping it and just had to get the latest iPhone to replace it. A few weeks later she pulled that out of her bag with the screen all cracked and said she'd dropped that one as well. Why do people have to have the latest brand new things but treat them carelessly and not give a st when they damage them? If image matters it's not a very good image if everything you have is battered to bits. It probably is the people who have it all paid for by someone else.

Yup, like my 13 yera old son. New Iphone lasted a week, insurance replacement Samsung lasted a month. Now he can live with the cracked screen until HE can afford to replace it.

Off Topic I know but this is all down to haves and have nots.

I'm from a have not family. Working class, little spare cash, holidays at friends houses in Clacton if we were lucky. My brothers and I looked after our stuff and looked after the pennies. I still have the Sinclair calculator that my parents bought for me when I took my O levels in 1977

My ex wife came from a have family. She buys expensive stuff and doesn't look after it, she ruined stuff that I owned and when she went into massive debt (a number of times) her mum would bail her out. The kids live with her and she constantly buys them the latest iPhone, pad and computer only for them to get lost within weeks or broken.

Now my kids have no concept of the cost of things and are shocked by my austerity measures when they come and stay with me as I desperately budget to pay my rent and the child maintenance.

My old Beemer still has her name on the insurance for kid related trips and stuff so she 'borrows' it from time to time and it always comes back looking like a tramp has lived in it for weeks and there are always new bumps and scrapes.

Sometimes I go to the old house to collect it and it's always parked badly, miles from the pavement or half up on it at a crazy angle. Just doesn't care.

She had the cheek to ask me why she isn't insured on my other car. No fekin' way!!!

[Hackney]

Another (6 month old) M135i noticed a dirty mark on the bumper the other day. Except it's not a dirty mark, its a scuff with a scratch in the middle of it.
Alright it's pretty minor - dealer said £250 to respray the bumper - but that's £250 I could do something else with.
At the moment I'm leaving it until there are 3 or 4 of them before I pay out.

[JuanGandini]

Oh and I just remembered something I witnessed last week. A middle aged woman driving along a local road as I was walking to the railway station with the missus on our way to work...

The woman was driving an orange Citroen Xsara with a young child in the front on a booster seat. She proceeded to attempt a 3 point turn, having found a space between cars in which to do it, using someone's driveway (as most of the road has cars parked on both sides, which makes such a manoeuvre impossible). The only stumbling block is this driveway has a lamppost right in the middle:

.

Unfussed by the obstacle, the driver of the Xsara used it as a crash barrier to reverse into and then drove off merrily on her way. She hit it pretty hard too, so I'm sure her car would've received some sort of damage. Mental

[Gilhooligan]

To contrast a lot of these stories of aholes damaging cars and driving off, I came out of work a few years ago to find a massive crease in my passenger door.
I was parked on a hill so the driver of the other car had obviously just let the door go and swing into mine. As I got closer I could see a note left under the windscreen wiper.
Called the woman who apologised and gave me her details. All sorted through insurance. Added bonus of the body shop pulling another dent out of the door too. Happy days.

[Bluebarge]

Hol said:

Tuvra said:

croyde said:

A lot of the women drivers I know are like that. Giggle and 'Oops' and 'It's only a car' and drive off.

I seen a young girl rear end a Ferrari 360 Spider once at the lights, she appeared to start pissing herself with laughter, was most strange

Interesting, when you consider that their accident statistics are supposed to be so low.

I read somewhere that the reason that women are viewed as "safer" drivers by insurers is that women's accidents tend to be low-speed, traffic or parking shunt-type accidents, which don't cost a lot to put right; whereas blokes, and particularly younger blokes with more testosterone than brains, or late middle-aged crotchety blokes in a hurry to get to the most important meeting in the world, tend to specialise in big, high-speed "offs" which cost a packet. So it's not necessarily the number of accidents as their severity that casts women drivers in a more favourable light.

[Limpet]

My F30 is 31 months old and has done 47k.It has the following (none of which has been done by me)

Door ding dents in the nearside rear wheelarch and nearside front wing.

A scuff on the very corner of the front bumper on the offside.

A deep scuff on the back bumper on the offside

Scratches on the bootlid and the offside A-pillar at mid-torso height approximately (handbag?)

I will evaluate it in February when it is due to go back, and maybe get a local dent guy to give it the once over. It's just not worth getting it done as it happens. People nowadays do not give a stuff about other people's property.

[Tyre Tread]

It doesn't help that the likes of Clarkson, Mike Brewer and other'car people' are seen sitting on the cars they are talking about.

I was sat in the car this morning listening to the news before going into work and a young woman in an old Fiat stopped behind me and then stalled the car almost hitting the back of mine.

Phew, I thought. With that she gets out of her car and walks past mine scraping her handbag (which had large metal buckles) along the side of my car as she walked past it! Completely oblivious as she was for more interested in texting.

Edited by Tyre Tread on Monday 20th October 13:15

[ManOpener]

There's a geriatric on my street who appears to have fitted a tow bar to his Astra estate solely for the purposes of enabling him to touch-park it. Confronted him about it once, pointed out the damage and he slammed the door in my face. I've reported him to the police three times for hitting other people's vehicles but he still does it. I've half a mind to saw it off if I see him do it again.

[JuanGandini]

ManOpener said:

There's a geriatric on my street who appears to have fitted a tow bar to his Astra estate solely for the purposes of enabling him to touch-park it. Confronted him about it once, pointed out the damage and he slammed the door in my face. I've reported him to the police three times for hitting other people's vehicles but he still does it. I've half a mind to saw it off if I see him do it again.

Maybe just chain his towbar to a large slab of concrete and see how he gets on!