Somebody get me a length of rope
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I don't know where to start, I am literally foaming at the mouth with rage.
For the second time in as many weeks, my car has been damaged.
A week or so ago some feckless ar**hole blocked me in, in the underground car park I use where I stay here in Nottingham... I scraped the drivers door and rear quarter panel trying to get out - i.e. doing the right thing by not damaging somebody else's property, at a cost of £330 of my hard earned as I didn't want to claim on my insurance.
I get the car back on Monday, and the local person I used had done a fantastic job. Including doing some stone chips for free "I'd mixed the paint, so I thought I'd go around it for you" top man.
She looked excellent, all polished up...
Imagine how pleased I was this morning when I came down into the same "secure" car park to find the drivers door window smashed, and the same door badly scratched.
Yes some thieving lowlife had, it transpires, tail-gated a car through the secure gates and robbed both my car and a BMW parked near it, before making good his escape through an unlocked and un-alarmed fire exit.
What is so upsetting is not that I'm not going to be £1000 down in one week in repairs (I have to pay for the glass, then claim it back WTF?). I'll also have to replace my Sat Nav, my 4 year old, battered Navman Sat Nav, that the thieving scrote will get about £20 for.
No, it's the attitude of all concerned, the mouth-breather Security "Guard", who doesn't know how to operate the cameras on his site, the site he is responsible for. He was actually surprised I was angry that the fire exit that the scumbag escaped through was unlocked and not alarmed.
The utter apathy of the Police, even though there is CCTV footage of the individual, the fact that I was advised not leave a nice car in town (WTF?).
I don't know who I want the rope for more, myself as I can't believe that this country has sunk so low, or for the miscreant, who if I ever got hold of, would be "taking the waters" in the Trent for an extended period.
Consider my pi55 well and truly boiled.
For the second time in as many weeks, my car has been damaged.
A week or so ago some feckless ar**hole blocked me in, in the underground car park I use where I stay here in Nottingham... I scraped the drivers door and rear quarter panel trying to get out - i.e. doing the right thing by not damaging somebody else's property, at a cost of £330 of my hard earned as I didn't want to claim on my insurance.
I get the car back on Monday, and the local person I used had done a fantastic job. Including doing some stone chips for free "I'd mixed the paint, so I thought I'd go around it for you" top man.
She looked excellent, all polished up...
Imagine how pleased I was this morning when I came down into the same "secure" car park to find the drivers door window smashed, and the same door badly scratched.
Yes some thieving lowlife had, it transpires, tail-gated a car through the secure gates and robbed both my car and a BMW parked near it, before making good his escape through an unlocked and un-alarmed fire exit.
What is so upsetting is not that I'm not going to be £1000 down in one week in repairs (I have to pay for the glass, then claim it back WTF?). I'll also have to replace my Sat Nav, my 4 year old, battered Navman Sat Nav, that the thieving scrote will get about £20 for.
No, it's the attitude of all concerned, the mouth-breather Security "Guard", who doesn't know how to operate the cameras on his site, the site he is responsible for. He was actually surprised I was angry that the fire exit that the scumbag escaped through was unlocked and not alarmed.
The utter apathy of the Police, even though there is CCTV footage of the individual, the fact that I was advised not leave a nice car in town (WTF?).
I don't know who I want the rope for more, myself as I can't believe that this country has sunk so low, or for the miscreant, who if I ever got hold of, would be "taking the waters" in the Trent for an extended period.
Consider my pi55 well and truly boiled.
Not anywhere near as bad but my car was hit the other night when outside my house. The door's caved in and scratched badly so presumably theres is too. Was there a note left? Was there heck.
It's the general lack of caring and decency that got to me most, quite apart from having to pay my excess.
Sorry to hear about your car anyway - I can imagine how angry you must be.
It's the general lack of caring and decency that got to me most, quite apart from having to pay my excess.
Sorry to hear about your car anyway - I can imagine how angry you must be.
Sorry to hear about the car, hopefully you get everything sorted soon enough.
It's a sad state, but people don't want to take responsibility for their s**t driving/insurance and in 99/100 instances i've heard, there's been a dent and the person has disappeared if the innocent driver wasn't present at the time.
It's a sad state, but people don't want to take responsibility for their s**t driving/insurance and in 99/100 instances i've heard, there's been a dent and the person has disappeared if the innocent driver wasn't present at the time.
bingbong said:
Genuinely Sorry to hear about your car, however a fire door shouldn't really be locked from the inside, alarmed yes, but locked no.
No I meant secured with a glass tube or push bar, apparently another company uses the door as a short cut to the car park so it's not locked or monitored. Really sorry to hear your woe mate.
SVX said:
The utter apathy of the Police, even though there is CCTV footage of the individual, the fact that I was advised not leave a nice car in town (WTF?)
This is the really terrifying bit. Makes you realise we are losing the war against the tide of scumbags. yesterday a Hansen Aggregates lorry took the complete wing mirror assembly of a neighbours car. Didnt stop. Didnt leave a note.
When they rang to discuss hansen Aggregates said they dont know who the driver was that delivered in this road at 11.10 yesterday.
Just goes to show that be it individuals or companies, some people have no morals when it comes to others property.
(unlike Tesco who sent me a cheque for £428 when their driver smashed my wing mirror off..nice poeple)
When they rang to discuss hansen Aggregates said they dont know who the driver was that delivered in this road at 11.10 yesterday.
Just goes to show that be it individuals or companies, some people have no morals when it comes to others property.
(unlike Tesco who sent me a cheque for £428 when their driver smashed my wing mirror off..nice poeple)
eli_hunter said:
SVX said:
eli_hunter said:
so whats the rope for?
are you going to kill yourself over this?
Nah, thought I might take up macramé are you going to kill yourself over this?
A friend of mine had has car written off by a head-on collision with a twazzock who came pelting round the corner of a supposedly quiet residential street. Twazzock got out, checked my friend was still alive and then scarpered even faster. It took 2 weeks for the rozzers to track down the car - registered to a company and uninsured. The company cited the data protection act and refused to give the driver's details and the rozzers couldn't be arsed to get the required court order to force the information out of them and instead slapped a fine on my friend because he couldn't find the paper bit of his licence. Bye bye to no claims and a previously faultless and undamaged car (although it was one of those s
tty smart things which look like a dyson and he's now got something a bit less laughable).
The general public, I'm afraid, continue to plunge to new and hitherto unfathomable depths of crappiness.
tty smart things which look like a dyson and he's now got something a bit less laughable).The general public, I'm afraid, continue to plunge to new and hitherto unfathomable depths of crappiness.
Edited by missliv on Thursday 10th July 14:56
ah but it isnt just scumbags. I was in Gorleston the other morning, my car was parked on the high street. When I came back to drop off some stuff there was an old guy in a senator trying to squeeze his car in the gap between me and a car one space behind me. He reversed into the space while running his bummper up and over the front bummper of the other car. I knocked o his window and told him what had happened. He denied it!!! He eventually got out and still wouldnt believe he had just caused the damage. Luckily I had a witness whio couls back me up plus my OH who is a lawyer. The old guy wasnt having any of it and got in and drove off. In my mind he should know better at his age especially when he told me he ws 70 and had never had an accident in his life. I got his number plate, waited for the other cars driver to return, passed the info to him and have since had a call from the police. SO it isnt just young scumbags, old gits are just as irresponsible.Still made me fume though.
What you mean is the fire escape wasnt secure, not 'locked'. However, its of little relevance, the crim would have got out whether it was secure or not. Secuirty is in the entry, not the exits.
SOrry to here about the damage but in the big scheme of things its just something you are insured for anyway so although this impacts you its not a complete loss.
SOrry to here about the damage but in the big scheme of things its just something you are insured for anyway so although this impacts you its not a complete loss.
Simond001 said:
yesterday a Hansen Aggregates lorry took the complete wing mirror assembly of a neighbours car. Didnt stop. Didnt leave a note.
When they rang to discuss hansen Aggregates said they dont know who the driver was that delivered in this road at 11.10 yesterday.
Just goes to show that be it individuals or companies, some people have no morals when it comes to others property.
(unlike Tesco who sent me a cheque for £428 when their driver smashed my wing mirror off..nice poeple)
I think most Hanson lorries are owner operator and they just have the Hanson livery on....although I suspect they could find out who was doing that delivery...When they rang to discuss hansen Aggregates said they dont know who the driver was that delivered in this road at 11.10 yesterday.
Just goes to show that be it individuals or companies, some people have no morals when it comes to others property.
(unlike Tesco who sent me a cheque for £428 when their driver smashed my wing mirror off..nice poeple)
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