the dreaded question"who own the car parked..?"

steevo d · 15-09-2007, 10:11 PM

dont we all hate it when you get that knock on the door
from someone you dont know who is saying who owns the car i just hit out the front?

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Falcon_Phill · 15-09-2007, 10:20 PM

Not yet.

mik · 15-09-2007, 10:23 PM

whats the damage :(

TEaaron · 15-09-2007, 10:24 PM

Dunno cause my car is NEVER parked on the street.

steevo d · 15-09-2007, 10:27 PM

the damage is the drivers door on my (previously owned by
a 60yr old woman) EB fairmont.
i bought the car because it was original (stock)& straight.
it is so stoved in the door wont open at all.
all i can say is at least the young bloke owned up to it.

blk_frmnt · 15-09-2007, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by steevo d

dont we all hate it when you get that knock on the door
from someone you dont know who is saying who owns the car i just hit out the front?

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At least you got a knock, not an "OH S%#T!!!" and tyres squealing as the bastard speeds off...

RG · 15-09-2007, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by blk_frmnt

At least you got a knock, not an "OH S%#T!!!" and tyres squealing as the bastard speeds off...

Exactly what I was thinking, I'd much prefer the knock than the runner.

fmc351 · 15-09-2007, 11:23 PM

I once made that knock. Cleaned up a neat HG. And Im gonna leave it at that.

Falc'man · 16-09-2007, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by blk_frmnt

At least you got a knock, not an "OH S%#T!!!" and tyres squealing as the bastard speeds off...

Yep, much agreed.
Neighbour across the road was nice enough to pay me that visit one night when she reversed into the wife's car...

70caprigt3k · 16-09-2007, 01:09 AM

If someone came to my front door asking who's car they cleaned up out the front my first question would be how they managed to plow through 200m worth of trees and still hit my car.

Pedro · 16-09-2007, 07:25 AM

Years ago, I was kissing my girlfriend goodnight at her parents house which was way down a sloping block. I could hear a car on the road above being driven erratically (on and off the accelerator), then there was this almighty crashing noise. When I ran up the steps to the road I found my car trashed down the driver's side and no sight of the offender. Sort of put a dampener on the night.

paule11 · 16-09-2007, 08:42 AM

I had a bloke reverse into my car at a hardware store staff member was asking about who owned this car out the front that had been reversed into the bloke was on his mobile phone reversed into my car smashed my headlightcost me $400. Got out still talking checked his damage . Then drove off people out the front couldnt beleive it one lady wrote down the rego but it was wrong one letter wrong b instead of d so couldnt find him that way. I remembered what he looked like when I went in the hardware shop he was driving like a tool and pushed in front of me to get in. I saw him months after asked him about my car he told me to prove it bit abusive telling me there was nothing I could do etc. Couldnt hit him too many people but his car was parked in front of overflow where he left it dont know how he got home that day superglue in door locks is not a good thing

Addz08 · 16-09-2007, 09:24 AM

My sister brought a new RS Subaru, it was a month old, when the neighbours stepson reversed his landcruiser into the right-hand rear quarter, $3000 worth of damage, we saw it happen but we could do nothing to stop him..

gtfpv · 16-09-2007, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by steevo d

dont we all hate it when you get that knock on the door
from someone you dont know who is saying who owns the car i just hit out the front?

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no way , i would be happy, someone of good character, is i dyeing breed these days . your more likely to hear a surging crunch of metal, followed by wheels spinning as the driver is getting away.

Paxton · 16-09-2007, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by gtfpv

no way , i would be happy, someone of good character, is i dyeing breed these days . your more likely to hear a surging crunch of metal, followed by wheels spinning as the driver is getting away.

Damn straight. Common Courtesy isn't something the younger generations know of.

I haven't had the pleasure (or displeasure) of knocking or having my door knocked on, but they'd hit the boat before the cars, as the cars get the Garage.

asusdragon · 16-09-2007, 02:20 PM

i was at the local shopping centre and saw a guy try to go in to car bay and hit the car next to it, then got out the car looked at the damage then get back in the car and drive off.
thing was i saw the whole thing got their plates too. walked in to the shop to see if i could find the owner, guy came up to me and ask if someone just hit the car, it was his car, gave him my number and the other cars plates and car details, never found out what happened but hopefully the something good

InfernoSR · 16-09-2007, 02:45 PM

Ever noticed that if you try to help someone that has damaged your car, that you are still likely to get screwed over?

My Mazda 929 LTD coupe' was written off due to being backed into... i was in the car at the time and i was totally in the right. I knew the offenders (guy was a school mate, girl i played softball against), she was on a good behaviour bond, so i didnt call the police or anything (more fool me) she wanted to pay for it... then ended up getting insurance involved... qouted $3500 for repairs... got $900 for it... :(

bcr2734 · 16-09-2007, 02:52 PM

at least he had the balls to come and see you. respect

The Yeti · 16-09-2007, 04:38 PM

I've never had that but once when I lived with my parrents I woke up and looked out the front to see an XY on the roof in the front lawn (OK not quite a lawn they have 10achers and its on a bend) it turns out I slept through the whole thing as at arround 3am he rounded the bend up the entry to the neuighbors property got air through the top rail of the front fence and on to its lid on the grass he got out Mum and dad who sleap at the back of the house rendered assistance blah blah blah however my room was the closest to all the action and I slept through the whole thing

gtfpv · 16-09-2007, 06:43 PM

how about being left in a mangled car reck / conscious and injured, whilst the other parties involved wave witnesses through , then do a runner when the coast is clear.
or another , where the road is blocked during peak hour . and you do the right thing and move the cars out of the way. only to have no witnesses stop( because they are on the way to work . and then i wore the fault for the collission , because of no witnesses.
or 3 weeks ago the house about 3 blocks away. a truck runs off the road at 4 am through a front yard , and into a 2 storey house. structurely damaging the building and moving the whole house off it's foundations. going through the side of the building and stopping before it hits the neighbouring house 1metre from the master bedroom.
then quickly hitting reverse and getting away before residents come out .

these are some of my own experiances and it saddens me that people have become like this .

gamera · 16-09-2007, 07:51 PM

Ive had the dreaded knock on the door at a friends house, his neighbour aparntly didnt see the big red shiney car parked across the road and reveresed her magna into it... not exactly what you want to hear as soon as u wake up after a big night... these things happen though : )

steevo d · 16-09-2007, 08:57 PM

yes i do appreciate his honesty, that is why when he asked if it
can be done without going thru insurance i agreed.
it would cost him more in excess than the damage is worth.
when i was a young bloke someone i hit did me that favour,
so i thought i'd better pass it on.

if he doesn't screw me around i'm happy to handle it this way.

kieran23 · 16-09-2007, 09:22 PM

I parked my XR6T in the city a few months back and came back to find a note on the windshield, someone had come close and nudged the side mirror, they left their details etc. but the damage was microscopic so I didnt bother pursuing it. Was very nice of them though!

InfernoSR · 16-09-2007, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by kieran23

I parked my XR6T in the city a few months back and came back to find a note on the windshield, someone had come close and nudged the side mirror, they left their details etc. but the damage was microscopic so I didnt bother pursuing it. Was very nice of them though!

OMG!! that is good... you got lucky there.

punktured · 16-09-2007, 10:20 PM

Ive had that happen to me, my old ed was parked outside my gfs place, woman across the road backed in (while the husband was saying watch out for the car). They were nice about it and it got sorted out.

Also saw a new porshe 911 turbo get hit by a van while it was parked, me being the nice person i am parked my car, got the van details and left him a note. Got a call from him later thanking me heaps and saying he needs a new rim and front bar and then told me just after i left someone parking behind him hit him aswell. I felt sorry for that guy, would be a costly fix!

Another one i've had, some idiot came out of a parallel carpark and with around 6 meters of turning space decided he didnt like my car and backed into it, drove off with no note and a 2k damage bill!

matt-chops · 17-09-2007, 12:53 AM

Damn, we live in a world full of ! I almost want to move to the middle of nowhere and live in a small shack with nothing of value so nothing like that can ever happen.

I once watched a woman at a shopping center get into her camry (i hate camrys with a passion), start the car and without looking where she was going, reverse straight into a stationery car that was behind her, queuing to leave the carpark. The car she hit had been waiting there before the woman even got into her car. There's just no excuse for that kind of stupidity.

MNM96 · 17-09-2007, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by kieran23

I parked my XR6T in the city a few months back and came back to find a note on the windshield, someone had come close and nudged the side mirror, they left their details etc. but the damage was microscopic so I didnt bother pursuing it. Was very nice of them though!

Did you call them to thank them?

Debzilla_108 · 17-09-2007, 08:34 AM

my partners brother was in a car park and a lady parked next to him and the kid in the back flung his door open and smashed into his car he got out and was like oi teach ya kids not to open there door like that he just hit me car(was gemini he didnt really care about but its the moral) and she was like oh he is only 6 he doesnt no any better..(he is old enuff to know)...he was like fine and got in his car . kicked his door as hard as he could into hers lol

id say she will be teaching her kids a thing or two about carparks now lol

paule11 · 17-09-2007, 03:02 PM

My wife was hit at the beach by young blokes in a cortina doing a burnout had there steering wheel on full lock dropped the clutch unfortunately they were in reverse .Pushed her parked car a meter and a half over the concrete gutter the passengers ran away the driver stayed there as there was a lot of torres strait islanders in busses having some bbq get together and some of the big old elders took his details I think the other blokes themselves when they had 20 to 30 blokes walking towards them looking at the damage

paule11 · 17-09-2007, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Debzilla_108

my partners brother was in a car park and a lady parked next to him and the kid in the back flung his door open and smashed into his car he got out and was like oi teach ya kids not to open there door like that he just hit me car(was gemini he didnt really care about but its the moral) and she was like oh he is only 6 he doesnt no any better..(he is old enuff to know)...he was like fine and got in his car . kicked his door as hard as he could into hers lol

id say she will be teaching her kids a thing or two about carparks now lol

excellent reap what you sow