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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Victoria - where being slow & incompetent is considered being "safe"
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It has just come back from a bare metal respray at the panel beaters and looked a million dollars. He’d parked it in a public car park for 5 minutes and when he was coming back to the right hand side of the car he saw a guy hovering around the left hand side of it. The guy sees my friend coming, says “nice car, mate” and wanders off. When my mate gets back to work he parks and walks around the left hand side to see that the new paint has been keyed back to bare metal. And he strongly suspects that the “nice car, mate” guy did it. I’ll stop and gawk at really nice cars in car parks, etc but no way known would I damage one. If the owner is there I'll try to chat with them, just so they know that I'm a true enthusiast (puts their mind at ease). OzJAv – I’ve always thought that flat black looks good on a car, even before the movie “Deathproof”. It must get hot in summer (coming from an owner of 2 black cars). Your one is almost camouflaged from vandals.
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well last night my car was broken into.........glove box emptied all through the car..................they ended up taking about 2 bux in small change and stole my work shoes???? idiots
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Sydney
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Our garage door at home has a busted bearing in the motor, so it's stuck closed at the moment, and I refused to take my car home from work last night if it was going to sit out on the street.
So I put it in our shed at the bus depot and then we locked the gates as well. I hate leaving it unattended anywhere where I'm not able to keep an eye on it. It cost me a lot of money, and I'm quite emotionally attached to it.
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: adelaide
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shopping centres spawn vandals!! If anyone here lives in Adelaide, you'd know Westfield Marion. On thursdays, they open 3 clubs and pubs up very late. When the revellers have to leave car owners shouldn't have a car there! These people do anything just as a joke. I was leaving one night at around twelve and suddenly heard/ felt a bump on my boot. Drunken kid runs by "nice car *t!" gassed after him, but in a shopping mall on foot you escape easier. Keep away from shopping centres at all costs catch a bus instead....
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This guy (definately not me, your Honour) once caught someone, egging his house.
I can't say too much because it involved a broom to the shins and torso (the only thing lying around) and my garden hose (mainly torso). Broke the broom handle. Garden hose leaves big welts on a persons' back. They'd been egging a few houses (including mine) every night for close to a week. He waitied in the back yard (lights off) and drank a few beers when He heard some giggling and and an egg hit the house. No-one saw mhim slip up the side of the house with the broom.... HE got in a lot more trouble than they did. No hits to face or groin, no broken bones, but quite a few bruises and whelts. Note: in a court of law, brooms and hoses are considered weapons. That's why I try not to get too upset anymore. |
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Yeah, couple of court appearances. Had to appeal coz they recorded a conviction and I would lose my job. Appealed: No conviction recorded.
The judge accepted that if I had wanted to do real damage to them, I could have. There were two of them (19 and 20yo) and the first one got hit accross the the shins with the broom handle as he came down my front steps (peed on my doormat), the second one came to help but stopped about 2 metres away becasue I was still weilding what was left of the broom handle. I took a step towards him and he threw an egg at me. When he turned to run away he slipped over on the freshly watered grass (sprinkler still on). I ripped the sprinkler off the hose and smacked him a few times in the middle of the back. They both took off. About three hours later I got a visit. A mention an adjournment First hearing second hearing (appeal). $2000 in damages plus court costs plus time off work plus legal advice plus stress It wasn't worth it. I should have just hosed off the house the next morning and gave a description of the blokes to the police (again!). The police were really nice, about it. They had to follow it up becasue a complaint was made. Nowadays, I try to remain calm. (still, the look on the first guy's face as the broom handle broke accross his shins - priceless) Last edited by ehast13; 09-01-2009 at 11:30 AM. Reason: error |
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What gets me in these cases.. If your a biggish guy they take it as your big enough to take it!! Yet drunken whimps get away with this behavour in court...
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ballarat
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I'll tell you a good one of when I had a classic jag - at a macca's carpark one night ad the commo-wa**ers were out in force anyways sensed the trouble so we drove away. Got stuck t the intersection (red light) guy came running over and punched my driver and rear window out and partners at the time front and rear window whilst e were in it.
Anyways rang the cops and they came pointed him out (he was ONLY one in certain clothes so easy) cops took him back to station and charged him. Went to court he got a medial certificate to say he had a broken hand and couldn't do it. Well of course he had a broken hand etc he'd just punched 4 car windows and alas he was let off............ My windows for glass alone over $200 and partners plus fitting and obviously the shock and all the lawyers said was "tough luck hey" ![]() ![]() |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Your Place
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Its not car related but my boss who I did my Apprenticeship under in Darwin was a mean Bugger if you crossed him but a fair and genuine bloke.
Anyway when he was younger he and a few mates were flatting together and they came home after a night on the brews and found this dude in their flat pinching stuff. So they proceeded to beat the Sh@t out of him and My mate Got the dudes arm after they punched him unconscious and lent it between the coffee table and the floor and broke both the bones in his fore arm and set him up again and snapped the upper bone in the same arm (humerus) by stomping on it both times then they bundled him up and chucked him out in Town. So this guy after some time in hospital I imagine reports them and tries to take em to court and press charges and all that so he admits to doing break ins in that block of flats as my mates wasn't the first that night. And as the lads had never reported the break in and they had just bundled him up and dumped him the idiot got prison time for all the other offences and my mate just denied there ever being a break in and got away with it. Now that's sweet revenge. |
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I have a few nice cars and am getting into exotics lately. I was always paranoid about them getting keyed or damaged by some jealous lowlife. Then my old man said one day, "that's why you have insurance". I'm still cautious but actually drive to the shop now instead of walk.
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