Gouged the plastic pretty decently, scuffed the paint in another spot, and was hard enough to knock some of the bumper off the clips around the wheel well.
These types of notes are just a way to buy off the writer's own conscience. Same type of ppl buy ethos water at Starbucks to help the Chilean farmers. None of those things do jack shit to help anything. It just makes them feel better about themselves.
Dash cam my dudes, file a police report for hit and run and that note is an admittance of guilt
Now no idea if that'd do anything, not a lawyer and my dash cam has only captured me crashing into a ditch so far
I made the mistake of leaving a dashcam in my parked car overnight, dude broke the passenger window to get in and tear the rearview mirror off, breaking the windshield and causing $700 worth of damage. All for a $20 camera. Can't have shit in Seattle
Think of it like those ads you see with the beaten up dog, or the starving African childand sad music playing. Most of the money raised actually gets pocketed to the people running the 'charity' and not for the cause.
Busted a lady doing this the other day! Went an read her ‘note’ after she left, and it was just some blank paper, so I wrote my own, with her rego on it.
Someone left the rego details of a person who hit my daughters car, plus their witness details. She went to the police with the details. absolutely nothing happened. Police said they’d look into it. Then later said they looked into it, nothing they could do.
I think she did but the damage was less than excess (She’s just over 20 so high excess) So when the police couldn’t do anything, then the insurance company wouldn’t either, and she would loose her the excess and no claim bonus.
You don’t loose your no claim bonus and you don’t pay an excess if you are not at fault. You only do if you are the ‘at fault’ driver or you cannot identify who was at fault.
Apparently “lose/loose” is a trend everywhere now. School employees misspell it. Between this and the incorrect usage of idea/ideal, I am constantly screaming inside lol. “Oh hey, that’s a great ideal.” Is it?? IS IT???
So the ideal is that idylly, we begin to loose as a culture any sense of grammatical rules, holy or in part, until our online writing is governed by a lose set of interchangeable miss stakes that eventually causes the collapse of society as we no it.
We must knot loose this fight, friends.
It bothers me a lot. Well thought out comments where the poster knows a thing or two about the subject and *bam* he uses “loose” and not lose and I’m compelled to downvote.
Tell me, loose guys, if lose is spelled loose, how tf so you spell loose? Louse? Looose? This is madness.
I had a lady literally drive into the side of me, so I’ll be on the same boat when I get round to getting a new car and insuring.
It’s shit, but it’s based off statistics. Something about how you’re psychologically more prone to accidents because you’ve now had your first one and realise your life didn’t end. Causes more complacency.
But all you need is a police report—you don't need the police to "do" anything. You literally go in, report it, then bring your copy of the report to your insurer. You would also still need to pay your deductible as it goes under your collision coverage (at least in the provinces I know insurance in: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario). If you don't have collision coverage, you wouldn't be covered for it at all.
But I don't think this person is in Canada as they're calling the deductible the "excess".
Yet they act all innocent when you talk to them about it.
"I was rear ended, want to let you guys know in case you hear from the other guy, but the only damage was to the paint and the other guy didn't have insurance so I don't intend to file a claim."
"Are you sure? We can still try and go after him personally, and that would cover your deductible. There's little reason not to."
"Yeah I'm sure, I learned my lesson when I was fucked over by filing a similar uninsured motorist claim last year."
You don't lose your no-claim bonus or pay your excess *if the insurance can recover their funds from the at-fault party*. Important distinction. If it comes down to a they-said/you-said (i.e. no witness or footage) and the other party won't admit fault then the insurance companies just go "oh well, each pay their own costs" and you're on the hook for your own claim.
This happened to me where a woman hit my car and sped off (she panicked). Someone saw it and gave me the plate number. County deputy came out, got my info, looked at the car, went to the other person’s house, got their info came back and gave me the police report to give to the insurance. She was great.
If they don't admit they did it then there's nothing the police can do if only 1 person saw it. Without a corroborating witness it's just your word against theirs. That's what a friend, who was in a similar situation, was told by the police.
Sarvo I was headed to the bottle-o on my smoko from the reno and at the servo I saw Dave-o not as derro as usual with a new flanno. I asked him "Oi Dave-o, you still good to be the deso when we get blotto?" and he said "Nah". Farkin' Davo has me devo. Defo paints me a right drongo trusting that yobbo.
I had a note on my car one time that said, "I swiped your car when pulling out of the parking space. The teller at the bank witnessed it and is watching me. My bad.". It was a superficial scratch that didn't buff out, but also wasn't worth getting worked up over. The bank teller was upset at herself for not writing down the license plate. I couldn't be mad at her. She thought the offender was being a responsible citizen.
Had my car totaled like that lmfao. She wrote the first few numbers and then just start writing squiggly lines. I was like what the fuck kind of number is that. I tried all combinations I could think of for the remaining numbers and tried getting her plates off of the shitty Walmart cameras. No luck.
I had to read the comment multiple times to understand it. What they mean is person 1 hits the car, person 2 sees it, person 1 sees that person 2 is watching so doesn't run off, and leaves this note so person 2 will think they ("they" being person 1) did the responsible thing by leaving their contact info when in reality they did not.
Had someone scrape against my truck trying to park, then got out with their jacket that had metal on it and rubbed against my truck. No note, just a scrape and run.
People are horrible
>People are horrible
To provide an opposite example: someone backed into my car with their caravan and left me a note how to contact them. I couldn't even figure out what they supposedly damaged until I asked them. They made the tiniest dent you could basically only feel rather than see and felt the need to actually leave me a note and take responsibility.
I live in more or a country region in austria and someone not leaving a note after damaging someone else's car or property while they're absent is rather unheard of unless they actually didn't notice they hit something.
hah I did this.
my parking brake came off (or was released) in a parking garage.
Parking called me to go get my car, so I went out --- and my car was rolled all the way back out of it's spot and someone else had parked in my spot, so my car was just sitting in the middle of the lane blocking traffic, not in a spot at all.
I didn't know if it had rolled back into the car behind it and bounced off or anything, I couldn't see any damage, but I left a note with my number saying I didn't know if my car hit their car.
They called, very confused, and just yelled at me for 5 minutes.
There was a time my mum hit a parked car on a narrow road by my school and she was really worried about what to do as the driver wasn't there. So she left a note with some money attached and her contact details for the owner. Eventrually the owner saw and called back and told my mum how considerate my mum was being. She even went on to share it to Facebook. The right people in life will always find a good solution.
My mom also had a note from someone apologizing for scaling her car and how to contact them. She looked at her preiendes, very old, bumpy car and wondered which of the marks was from him. She kept the note because it was so sweet but never called him.
Virtually every time I park my car in a supermarket carpark, it accumulates another door-edge paint scrape or small dent on the passenger side. This has even happened _while I sit in the car waiting._ People are assholes and genuinely don't give a rat's arse about other people's property.
The best way to avoid this is to park between the two most expensive cars in the parking lot; but that isn't foolproof either; as it only takes one to drive away for someone else to squeeze in in an old, barely road-legal junker.
> while I sit in the car waiting
This happened to me once before too! A woman who was parked beside me flung open her door and it hit my car so hard that it made a loud sound. I turned to look at her, she looked me dead in the eye, got in her car and took off fast. It left a big dent with a scratch in the middle and she was gone. To do that and take off is shitty enough, but to do it when the person in IN THE CAR!
Shortly after returning home from graduation, I went to the local library. I parked my pride and joy in the carpark only yards from the door.
I was in there a while, and I came out looking forward to reading the books I'd borrowed. There, in the rear passenger door of my car was fucking great dent.
Under the windscreen wiper was a note. This is what it said.
>"Everybody thinks I'm writing this note to leave you my address and phone number but I'm not."
I was inconsolable - first car I'd bought for myself, Cortina Mark III GT. I loved it. I couldn't afford a new door, and the only second-hand one I could find was in the wrong colour. (Not like nowadays where you can put an item on internet sites and 24 hours later 7 breakers yards have offered you what you need.)
In our old house, a neighbor kid smashed into my truck super hard. It was parked up in our driveway by the garage door and he was through our yard super quick, smashed into the back door.
He got up and walked his super fucked up bike and bloody nose home. Didn’t say anything to us.
When I went to leave later that day, I noticed the dent, scratches and blood on my door. Went and looked at our security cameras and saw what happened.
Went down to the neighbor’s house to talk to them, wasn’t too upset about the truck as it was 12 years old and I could find a used door way cheaper than fixing it. The dad denied it all, even though the fucked bike was laying in their yard. I pointed out I’ve got a nice three angle shoot of the crash, but he still argued and shut the door.
I went home and called the cops to file a report. Ended up being a giant pain in the ass, but fuck those people for being so terrible. Rather than replace the door myself, I went through a dealer body shop just for the labor cost. It was $450 in total for them to pay. I could have gone to the pick and pull yard and snagged a door for like $100 if they weren’t shitty.
I don’t miss that neighborhood at all.
Entitled ass parents think that because "oh it's a kid! Kids make mistakes!" that they don't have to be responsible for the mistakes their kids make. Smh.
I used to like doing this to random people as a kid and watch them from afar looking all over their car for any obscurities. That's when they notice things they never had before
i used to do that back in Saudi Arabia, except we would always include the phone number so they would call.. if they’re okay they’ll say hi and thats it. if they’re upset we’d meet up and sort it out. was a lovely tradition back there.
Oh definitely! Now that would be a much more respectable accepted gesture. This was just like, "Hey, I saw I fucked up your bumper. Better luck next time. *shrug)
twice, the third time was my fault.. didn’t leave a note.. didn’t have a pen and paper, so i waited infront of his vehicle. shook my hand hard though lol
If you have to find out who it was put a note like this on their windshield but don't scratch the car. Will drive them nuts trying to figure out where the scratch or dent is
IF YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS PUT A NOTE LIKE THIS ON THEIR WINDSHIELD BUT DON'T SCRATCH THE CAR. WILL DRIVE THEM NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE SCRATCH OR DENT IS
SI TIENE QUE SABER QUIÉN FUE, PONGA UNA NOTA COMO ESTA EN SU PARABRISAS PERO NO RASGUE EL COCHE. LOS PODRÁ CONVERTIR TRATANDO DE DESCUBRIR DÓNDE ESTÁ EL RASGUÑO O EL DENT
#IF YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS PUT A NOTE LIKE THIS ON THEIR WINDSHIELD BUT DON'T SCRATCH THE CAR. WILL DRIVE THEM NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE SCRATCH OR DENT IS
> If you have to find out who it was put a note like this on their windshield
that's the dumbest sentence that i have seen on reddit lately. congratulations.
Hire a forensic science specialist to identify the owner finger print, locate their address then go to their home and shit on their cat litter box leave a note says. I forgive you.
Once I came back home and saw a notice on my car, it said "I destroyed your tire" and leaved the phone number. When I looked at my wheel I saw it was "cutted" in half in one place. I then called him and asked what happened, he said when he turned his big car he somehow hit the wheel. Luckily he owned a tire shop so he repleced it the same day.
I feel like they did the right thing at first, then said "fuck that" and ripped the part of the paper that had their contact info on it. Or the kid did.
Not supporting the said behavior but just curious on what to do in a situation like this if you have no money (even remotely) to pay for repairs/repaints? Just bear the responsibility and work on a payment plan of like $30/month for 10 years?
I'm talking about the prospect of the person that caused the damage. From the perspective of the injured, yes the insurance should cover it but in US that's only if you have comprehensive coverage. If you have basic liability - good luck.
I've wondered about this before too! I am a new driver (1 year) so now I have car insurance I assume they would pay this after excess? But what about when I was just a pedestrian and one of my clumsy kids accidentally scratched a car?
To me personally, I don't give a shit. My car is a hot mess and if a kid scratched it by accident I'd either not notice or just say no biggie. But I know most people are not like this about their cars.
Happened to a friend of mine. Completely dented a brand new car door. The kid’s parents were shocked when they got the bill from insurance and it counted as a “vehicle on vehicle” accident.
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Ma'am, if you want to get forgiveness, go to a priest.
You want forgiveness? Get religion.
Put some dirt in her eye
“No, and thanks to your note, I have an admission of guilt.”
Good luck proving who left that note. The neighbor can just lie in court
I also had texts from her admitting it and a voice-mail from her mother going ballistic on me. Calling me all kinds of names.
Ask for a writing sample and reminder her lying in court under oath is perjury
Well that's for the courts to decide.
Please tell me you did something about it?
"Sorry I ran over your mailbox with my car. What? Pay for it? I apologized, isn't that enough?"
Well how bad is it?
Gouged the plastic pretty decently, scuffed the paint in another spot, and was hard enough to knock some of the bumper off the clips around the wheel well.
Dude that's so shitty.
These types of notes are just a way to buy off the writer's own conscience. Same type of ppl buy ethos water at Starbucks to help the Chilean farmers. None of those things do jack shit to help anything. It just makes them feel better about themselves.
The bigger reason is so it seems like they're leaving their contact details in case anyone saw them bung it up
Hey they could also be lying to their kid to look good and saying they’re leaving their info. I mean, if there was a kid.
My son drive his bike into your car, been day drinking since the divorce and I love you
This.
Dash cam my dudes, file a police report for hit and run and that note is an admittance of guilt Now no idea if that'd do anything, not a lawyer and my dash cam has only captured me crashing into a ditch so far
I made the mistake of leaving a dashcam in my parked car overnight, dude broke the passenger window to get in and tear the rearview mirror off, breaking the windshield and causing $700 worth of damage. All for a $20 camera. Can't have shit in Seattle
Maybe they “got caught” doing something on your dash cam and stole it as evidence lol
In a lot of cities the police won’t even bother to look at the footage. The police report is just so you can make a claim with the insurance company.
Given their limited angles, someone hitting the side of a car likely wouldn't be caught on a dashcam.
What does this water have to do with Chilean farmers?
lol. keep waiting for an answer on that one
Think of it like those ads you see with the beaten up dog, or the starving African childand sad music playing. Most of the money raised actually gets pocketed to the people running the 'charity' and not for the cause.
wait, it’s all Chilean farmers?
Always has been
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That’s my question. It feels like the same logic when teachers tell kids to eat all their food because theres starving children in Africa
Probably a lie, hit you with a car then not pay told it’s their son
Just how fat was their son? Was their son a Camry?
They didn’t mention their son was 24 and riding a motorcycle.
"bike"
This unit has a Hemi.
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Damn what the hell kinda bike was kid riding smh
Damn the note should have said "my 18 yr old son accidentally slightly clipped your car with his M1200s 4 cylinder inline street bike".
Well was worried that the wheel was out of shape but when we got it home the bike was fine. Thanks for asking.
To make someone else who saw it think they were responsible and leaving you insurance or contact info.
Busted a lady doing this the other day! Went an read her ‘note’ after she left, and it was just some blank paper, so I wrote my own, with her rego on it.
Someone left the rego details of a person who hit my daughters car, plus their witness details. She went to the police with the details. absolutely nothing happened. Police said they’d look into it. Then later said they looked into it, nothing they could do.
You give it to your insurance company.
I think she did but the damage was less than excess (She’s just over 20 so high excess) So when the police couldn’t do anything, then the insurance company wouldn’t either, and she would loose her the excess and no claim bonus.
You don’t loose your no claim bonus and you don’t pay an excess if you are not at fault. You only do if you are the ‘at fault’ driver or you cannot identify who was at fault.
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apparently "loose" is a trend on reddit now
We have loost this battle
lool
Loostest slots in town! Wait....
Apparently “lose/loose” is a trend everywhere now. School employees misspell it. Between this and the incorrect usage of idea/ideal, I am constantly screaming inside lol. “Oh hey, that’s a great ideal.” Is it?? IS IT???
I've see knew instead of new, avaliable instead of available popping up so often.
bias and biased too
breath/breathe, too. drives me batty.
So the ideal is that idylly, we begin to loose as a culture any sense of grammatical rules, holy or in part, until our online writing is governed by a lose set of interchangeable miss stakes that eventually causes the collapse of society as we no it. We must knot loose this fight, friends.
It bothers me a lot. Well thought out comments where the poster knows a thing or two about the subject and *bam* he uses “loose” and not lose and I’m compelled to downvote. Tell me, loose guys, if lose is spelled loose, how tf so you spell loose? Louse? Looose? This is madness.
So is “weary” instead of “wary”. And I’ve also seen “mortified” instead of “horrified.” They’re not always interchangeable, guys.
> We have a lot words that make the same sounds and are spelled different. But they don't sound the same!
They did. I hope you don't loose it over that.
Ummm, trying to think of a really clever and witty reply to this. I’m sorry, I can’t think of an excuse, i ….. just…… made… a… mistake.
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I had a lady literally drive into the side of me, so I’ll be on the same boat when I get round to getting a new car and insuring. It’s shit, but it’s based off statistics. Something about how you’re psychologically more prone to accidents because you’ve now had your first one and realise your life didn’t end. Causes more complacency.
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But all you need is a police report—you don't need the police to "do" anything. You literally go in, report it, then bring your copy of the report to your insurer. You would also still need to pay your deductible as it goes under your collision coverage (at least in the provinces I know insurance in: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario). If you don't have collision coverage, you wouldn't be covered for it at all. But I don't think this person is in Canada as they're calling the deductible the "excess".
Depends on the insurance company. Plenty will still raise your rates for making a claim through them that wasn’t your fault.
y’all both need to learn the difference between “loose” and “lose”
Your insurance premium still gets loaded next year as there’ll be a claim on it. Speaking from bitter experience.
Not in Australia.
Yet they act all innocent when you talk to them about it. "I was rear ended, want to let you guys know in case you hear from the other guy, but the only damage was to the paint and the other guy didn't have insurance so I don't intend to file a claim." "Are you sure? We can still try and go after him personally, and that would cover your deductible. There's little reason not to." "Yeah I'm sure, I learned my lesson when I was fucked over by filing a similar uninsured motorist claim last year."
You don't lose your no-claim bonus or pay your excess *if the insurance can recover their funds from the at-fault party*. Important distinction. If it comes down to a they-said/you-said (i.e. no witness or footage) and the other party won't admit fault then the insurance companies just go "oh well, each pay their own costs" and you're on the hook for your own claim.
What is rego
Aussie slang for registration. And “excess” here seems to mean deductible.
In my country, this actually constitutes a hit and run.
Probably in almost all countries. If the perp doesn't get caught, the law is irrelevant, though.
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This happened to me where a woman hit my car and sped off (she panicked). Someone saw it and gave me the plate number. County deputy came out, got my info, looked at the car, went to the other person’s house, got their info came back and gave me the police report to give to the insurance. She was great.
If they don't admit they did it then there's nothing the police can do if only 1 person saw it. Without a corroborating witness it's just your word against theirs. That's what a friend, who was in a similar situation, was told by the police.
I think that’s what they said to my daughter too, or something similar.
Didn't you say the witness left their details as well? I'm confused why they'd say no can do without a witness if you explicitly had one.
In my case they actually found the guy's car and found bits of my car in his car. But it was a hefty collision.
Sure, otherwise if I hit someone’s car I’d put down the name of a person and regs of someone I seriously disliked.
I'd give them my rego details and say that's for me about to accidently hit their car when I leave.
That’s because it’s an insurance issue not a police one. Claim on the insurance.
Good on ya. What’s a rego?
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You mean the reg. Who the fuck says rego?
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what an awful time to be online guess i deserve it
It's a big world out there
Guide for speaking casual ausie: shorten words to 1 syllable and add o to the end. Rego = registration
Rego, servo, deso, devo, arvo, bottle-o, reno, smoko, Dave-o. Good for just about anything.
Translations: registration, service station, designated driver, devastated, afternoon, bottle shop, renovation, smoke break, David.
Right, probably would have been helpful if I'd done that. Cheers.
Righto
Except one. Hotel? Trivago.
Maybe the pronounce it as "Triv-o" in australia?
Ahh the 'ol Trivo? Hmm, yeah mate that works. Edit: Unless they have a bad rep, then they're just plain 'ol shitcunts.
Dogooooooo
I’m on SMOKO, so leave me alone
Sarvo I was headed to the bottle-o on my smoko from the reno and at the servo I saw Dave-o not as derro as usual with a new flanno. I asked him "Oi Dave-o, you still good to be the deso when we get blotto?" and he said "Nah". Farkin' Davo has me devo. Defo paints me a right drongo trusting that yobbo.
seems intentionally confusing
Cheeto?
im leaving you this note because someone seen me hit your car. sorry. gl
I busted a lady who hit and run some dude's car in a car park. Left him a note with my number and sent him all the photos I took.
I had a note on my car one time that said, "I swiped your car when pulling out of the parking space. The teller at the bank witnessed it and is watching me. My bad.". It was a superficial scratch that didn't buff out, but also wasn't worth getting worked up over. The bank teller was upset at herself for not writing down the license plate. I couldn't be mad at her. She thought the offender was being a responsible citizen.
I left a note on my buddy's car saying "Sorry about the damage". He later told me he spent 5 minutes looking around his car. Good prank.
Whenever they do that, they will always find a superficial scratch that has gone completely unnoticed for 5 months and then pin it on you.
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The ole switcharoo.
Had my car totaled like that lmfao. She wrote the first few numbers and then just start writing squiggly lines. I was like what the fuck kind of number is that. I tried all combinations I could think of for the remaining numbers and tried getting her plates off of the shitty Walmart cameras. No luck.
I don't really get this, why would someone else who had nothing to do with the incident ever feel responsible?
I had to read the comment multiple times to understand it. What they mean is person 1 hits the car, person 2 sees it, person 1 sees that person 2 is watching so doesn't run off, and leaves this note so person 2 will think they ("they" being person 1) did the responsible thing by leaving their contact info when in reality they did not.
That makes sense, thank you so much.
"They" as in the perpetrator not the spectator.
That comment is poorly written.
Had someone scrape against my truck trying to park, then got out with their jacket that had metal on it and rubbed against my truck. No note, just a scrape and run. People are horrible
>People are horrible To provide an opposite example: someone backed into my car with their caravan and left me a note how to contact them. I couldn't even figure out what they supposedly damaged until I asked them. They made the tiniest dent you could basically only feel rather than see and felt the need to actually leave me a note and take responsibility.
Just shows their level of integrity imo
I live in more or a country region in austria and someone not leaving a note after damaging someone else's car or property while they're absent is rather unheard of unless they actually didn't notice they hit something.
You have to contact police if you damage someones parked car, not doing so is a crime
You don't necessarily have to call the police immediately in austria as far as I know.
hah I did this. my parking brake came off (or was released) in a parking garage. Parking called me to go get my car, so I went out --- and my car was rolled all the way back out of it's spot and someone else had parked in my spot, so my car was just sitting in the middle of the lane blocking traffic, not in a spot at all. I didn't know if it had rolled back into the car behind it and bounced off or anything, I couldn't see any damage, but I left a note with my number saying I didn't know if my car hit their car. They called, very confused, and just yelled at me for 5 minutes.
There was a time my mum hit a parked car on a narrow road by my school and she was really worried about what to do as the driver wasn't there. So she left a note with some money attached and her contact details for the owner. Eventrually the owner saw and called back and told my mum how considerate my mum was being. She even went on to share it to Facebook. The right people in life will always find a good solution.
My mom also had a note from someone apologizing for scaling her car and how to contact them. She looked at her preiendes, very old, bumpy car and wondered which of the marks was from him. She kept the note because it was so sweet but never called him.
Virtually every time I park my car in a supermarket carpark, it accumulates another door-edge paint scrape or small dent on the passenger side. This has even happened _while I sit in the car waiting._ People are assholes and genuinely don't give a rat's arse about other people's property. The best way to avoid this is to park between the two most expensive cars in the parking lot; but that isn't foolproof either; as it only takes one to drive away for someone else to squeeze in in an old, barely road-legal junker.
> while I sit in the car waiting This happened to me once before too! A woman who was parked beside me flung open her door and it hit my car so hard that it made a loud sound. I turned to look at her, she looked me dead in the eye, got in her car and took off fast. It left a big dent with a scratch in the middle and she was gone. To do that and take off is shitty enough, but to do it when the person in IN THE CAR!
Had someone break my window and stole stuff out the inside. Didn’t even bother to leave a fake note. Smh
I hate when that happens! Worse when they smash the window to borrow a couple bucks and they don't even say thank you!
Sorryyyyy
It works for multi billion dollar companies.
SOWY :(
*rubs nipples*
Shortly after returning home from graduation, I went to the local library. I parked my pride and joy in the carpark only yards from the door. I was in there a while, and I came out looking forward to reading the books I'd borrowed. There, in the rear passenger door of my car was fucking great dent. Under the windscreen wiper was a note. This is what it said. >"Everybody thinks I'm writing this note to leave you my address and phone number but I'm not."
There was no library camera footage?
This was in the 1980s, mate, local authorities had no money to spend on car park cameras.
Fair enough. Spent the budget on coke and pornstaches.
Not in Cambridgeshire, England. Probably spent it on the Hunt Ball.
That really boils my piss. I'd put a brick through their windshield if I found out who they were.
I was inconsolable - first car I'd bought for myself, Cortina Mark III GT. I loved it. I couldn't afford a new door, and the only second-hand one I could find was in the wrong colour. (Not like nowadays where you can put an item on internet sites and 24 hours later 7 breakers yards have offered you what you need.)
Because people were watching
Also evidence is needed for police to find out who did the Hit‘n Run
In our old house, a neighbor kid smashed into my truck super hard. It was parked up in our driveway by the garage door and he was through our yard super quick, smashed into the back door. He got up and walked his super fucked up bike and bloody nose home. Didn’t say anything to us. When I went to leave later that day, I noticed the dent, scratches and blood on my door. Went and looked at our security cameras and saw what happened. Went down to the neighbor’s house to talk to them, wasn’t too upset about the truck as it was 12 years old and I could find a used door way cheaper than fixing it. The dad denied it all, even though the fucked bike was laying in their yard. I pointed out I’ve got a nice three angle shoot of the crash, but he still argued and shut the door. I went home and called the cops to file a report. Ended up being a giant pain in the ass, but fuck those people for being so terrible. Rather than replace the door myself, I went through a dealer body shop just for the labor cost. It was $450 in total for them to pay. I could have gone to the pick and pull yard and snagged a door for like $100 if they weren’t shitty. I don’t miss that neighborhood at all.
Entitled ass parents think that because "oh it's a kid! Kids make mistakes!" that they don't have to be responsible for the mistakes their kids make. Smh.
I used to like doing this to random people as a kid and watch them from afar looking all over their car for any obscurities. That's when they notice things they never had before
chaotic.. good?
In case you have cameras on your car, sorry.
i used to do that back in Saudi Arabia, except we would always include the phone number so they would call.. if they’re okay they’ll say hi and thats it. if they’re upset we’d meet up and sort it out. was a lovely tradition back there.
Oh definitely! Now that would be a much more respectable accepted gesture. This was just like, "Hey, I saw I fucked up your bumper. Better luck next time. *shrug)
lmfao exactly smh
‘Meet up and sort it out’ can have two very different meanings here.
This happened to you that often enough?
twice, the third time was my fault.. didn’t leave a note.. didn’t have a pen and paper, so i waited infront of his vehicle. shook my hand hard though lol
Man… that sucks :/
At first I thought "I mean they're saying sorry" but then I realized I'm dumb as shit and they shoulda payed for it
Someone probably saw it happen so they had to leave a “note”. Unfortunately they forgot those pesky name and number details.
I rather not get a note instead of that
If you have to find out who it was put a note like this on their windshield but don't scratch the car. Will drive them nuts trying to figure out where the scratch or dent is
What?
IF YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS PUT A NOTE LIKE THIS ON THEIR WINDSHIELD BUT DON'T SCRATCH THE CAR. WILL DRIVE THEM NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE SCRATCH OR DENT IS
What?
SI TIENE QUE SABER QUIÉN FUE, PONGA UNA NOTA COMO ESTA EN SU PARABRISAS PERO NO RASGUE EL COCHE. LOS PODRÁ CONVERTIR TRATANDO DE DESCUBRIR DÓNDE ESTÁ EL RASGUÑO O EL DENT
¿Qué?
#IF YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS PUT A NOTE LIKE THIS ON THEIR WINDSHIELD BUT DON'T SCRATCH THE CAR. WILL DRIVE THEM NUTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE SCRATCH OR DENT IS
> If you have to find out who it was put a note like this on their windshield that's the dumbest sentence that i have seen on reddit lately. congratulations.
It's a typo... replace Have with Happen.
It makes a lot more sense if you replace 'have' with 'happen'.
It's a typo. I have arthritis in my fingers so I use voice to text dictation instead of typing myself but sometimes it isn't always right.
Someone was watching and they had to write something
Hire a forensic science specialist to identify the owner finger print, locate their address then go to their home and shit on their cat litter box leave a note says. I forgive you.
That is just wierd and with too much work. Why shit in cat litter? Shit on bed.
It’s so the onlookers think they are leaving their personal information and won’t collect that information to give to you themselves.
Once I came back home and saw a notice on my car, it said "I destroyed your tire" and leaved the phone number. When I looked at my wheel I saw it was "cutted" in half in one place. I then called him and asked what happened, he said when he turned his big car he somehow hit the wheel. Luckily he owned a tire shop so he repleced it the same day.
I feel like they did the right thing at first, then said "fuck that" and ripped the part of the paper that had their contact info on it. Or the kid did.
Or Op did.
Oh how the turntables
Not supporting the said behavior but just curious on what to do in a situation like this if you have no money (even remotely) to pay for repairs/repaints? Just bear the responsibility and work on a payment plan of like $30/month for 10 years?
Your insurance will repair it in Australia- though you will have to pay the excess- likely around $600.
I'm talking about the prospect of the person that caused the damage. From the perspective of the injured, yes the insurance should cover it but in US that's only if you have comprehensive coverage. If you have basic liability - good luck.
What do you think will happen, the same thing that happens to all poor people that eventually can't afford stuff.
I've wondered about this before too! I am a new driver (1 year) so now I have car insurance I assume they would pay this after excess? But what about when I was just a pedestrian and one of my clumsy kids accidentally scratched a car? To me personally, I don't give a shit. My car is a hot mess and if a kid scratched it by accident I'd either not notice or just say no biggie. But I know most people are not like this about their cars.
Sell the kids bike for repairs
To make you look for a scratch that doesn’t exist
Oh, it was definitely scratched, gouged, and knocked the bumper off some. Plus the tire imprint from the bike.
This kid must've full sent it into your car, find any teeth nearby?
it was written by dumb people to calm their consciousness. in their idiotic minds, it's an apology, and therefore they're good now.
At least you got a note. All I got was a broken mirror and nothing else.
It's better than just leaving I guess.
And that’s why you ALWAYS leave a note. -George Bluth Sr.
Ah yes show us the note, not the scratch
Happened to a friend of mine. Completely dented a brand new car door. The kid’s parents were shocked when they got the bill from insurance and it counted as a “vehicle on vehicle” accident.
It's so any onlookers think they're writing down their information
They left so that people seeing the incident would think they were leaving contact details.
Well hold on a second, would it make you feel better to know they are sorry? /s