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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shelbyright on July 09, 2014, 07:24:21 AM
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We were happily camped at Coffs Harbour for a few days and having a great time. Went to pack up yesterday and noticed someone had reversed into our camper and bent the stonegaurd and broken the weld. I can easily get it fixed. But might take longer to get the bad taste out of my mouth being a new camper. Chances are the person would have not even know they did it, but if they did they could have just said something.
Seeing a lot more of what they call "Diminished Responsibility" ?hese days.
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Few weeks ago I had a rental car in Sydney. Parked overnight in the hotel car park. Next day came out and someone had swiped the front left bumper (reversed in) - left a big white paint mark and scrape.
Didn't leave a note.
So I got slugged for the repairs by the hire company. Was not happy
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Went to the supermarket & on 2 different trips got dinged . Bashed on both sides , that's what you get for shopping in a " Free Range Zoo " The bastards cant write , little alone own a pen so no notes , nothing . They will be 1st up against the wall , come the revolution >:D
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was that at the shep zoo?
gordo350
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Yeah, it seems the standards are dropping
Aaron
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Pretty rotten if they did know.
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Dos'nt realy matter even if they do leave a note .. A bloke chasing parts to repair his fresh damaged car , handed me the note left under his wiper , it read " The people who saw me hit your car think I'm doing the right thing and leaving you my details, BUT I'M NOT THAT F***ING STUPID ..."
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We have 2 new cars, Damx & a Korando, the Korando is my wifes trolley, she has taken it to the shopping center a few times and it looks pretty
ordinary for a new car, my Dmax will never get anywhere near a shopping center.
Out of the 5 small dings in my wifes car, not one left a msg.
I'm going to buy a beat up old ute for a shopping car.
Dave
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We had an old "Shite Box" 1996 Mazda 121, parked it anywhere, not a single ding in 7 years... don't ask me about the NXR or XR6, learn't that lesson quickly.
Funny, but no real probs with the tug, must be all the bar work that keeps it nice!!!
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Statistically crime has fallen but not sure honesty has.
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not so sure anything is different at anytime and statistics can be adjusted to what u want. Just my thoughts
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to answer the question in the title of the thread
"YES"
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My wife spent a hour in a shopping center one day looking for the owner of a car that she nudged with the Patrol. New black Chrysler 300 from memory. Went into the Police beat and all.
Ended up leaving a note on the car. The owners were so stunned and impressed that someone would do this they went out of their way to get the cheapest quote to fix.
I should add ours still hasn't been fixed ??? And she still thinks the tree that I backed into at Levuka leaving a scrape on the bumper was from one of her shopping trips aswell >:D
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PM inbound
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I saw a Ford station wagon full of back packers back into the front of a BMW last year and they couldn't get out of there quick enough. Unfortunately for them there were a few people who saw it happen and we all caught their number plate! I hope the owner caught up with them.
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was that at the shep zoo?
gordo350
No Mate Seymour Free Range Zoo , on pay day :'( :-[
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Why is it that when you go to a shopping centre carpark and park your car way over the back all by itself with tons of empty parks all around you that when you come out there is always another vehicle parked right up close next to you. >:(
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safety in numbers ;D ;D :cheers:
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Why is it that when you go to a shopping centre carpark and park your car way over the back all by itself with tons of empty parks all around you that when you come out there is always another vehicle parked right up close next to you. >:(
I ask myself that very question every time. And it is not usually a nice shiny new car who is thinking you wont open your nice shiny new door onto them so they should be safr.
Noooo .............its always some oldsh..box that hasn't been washed since new, dents in every panel and bald tires.
I am a car snob......... I know :-[
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Dropped me wallet at coles did not realize 2 days later whent in and asked if they had me wallet and pluk me some honest person handed it in money and all (rare).
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Dropped me wallet at coles did not realize 2 days later whent in and asked if they had me wallet and pluk me some honest person handed it in money and all (rare).
Sorry RallyDog but i think your post needs to be shifted to the Fiction Section. ;D ;D ;D
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Good old fashioned country people hay Robbo
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I think also a letigious society is to blame
I left a note once and after numeous abusive phone calls and me having to engage a solicitor to explain to his solicitor that this is the purpose of insurance it was finally resolved after 6 months.
All over a ding in the door that the owner of the vehucle and his dodgy panel beater claimed caused 6k of damage.
Ohh and then a further attempted suit for distress and financial hardship cause i kept refffering him to my insurance company and would not just write him out a check
After that one i will leave the rego number of my vehicle and who it is insured by. I will never again leave a phone number, and if i had no way of photographing the evidence of damage i would seriously be thinking twice after the above
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to answer the question in the title of the thread
"YES"
x2
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My old Pathfinder had seen, Birdsville Track, Loveday, Oodnadatta Track, Victorian High Country & lots of cross country trips.
Most damage to the car was at the local Shopping centre?????
Saw a mother let her daughter play with the trolley and nearly hit a car... Luckily it missed and the daughter got an ear bashing...
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Sorry RallyDog but i think your post needs to be shifted to the Fiction Section. ;D ;D ;D
Unfortunately the cynic in me says this was honesty through fear due to surveilance.
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Had my car dinged by a parent at my school. She left a note with with her phone number on my windscreen. I didn't notice anything as approached the car, so the note came as a big surprise. Hunted around the car for the damaged until I finally found a tiny bit of red paint on my passenger door. It almost wiped completely off with my finger. I really appreciated her honesty and sent her a text saying not to worry about it.
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Years ago in a large reasonably empty car park I parked the commodore, did the shopping, came out to find that the car next to me had put their trolley against my rear bumper (so it wouldn't roll away), didn't bother to hold it, or put it I the empty spot on the other side.
Not wanting to bother them I walked around the front, started and smoothly rolled back, a quick jab of the brakes sent their trolly rolling off into the kerb, where it then fell over.
No risk to other cars the car park was almost empty, only 2 cars in the section I was in, 1 after I left.
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Why is it that when you go to a shopping centre carpark and park your car way over the back all by itself with tons of empty parks all around you that when you come out there is always another vehicle parked right up close next to you. >:(
or a Shitty shopping trolley. About time supermarkets upped the cost of using a shopping trolley. A token worth $50 should fix it.
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The answer tho is Yes. Last week we had a flat pak kitchen delivered. Two of the 57 cartons were not part of our order, so we took the two boxes back to the supplier. Said to the guy at the counter, "just returning these, as they were incorrectly delivered and are not part of our order" Guy looks at me. I respond with, " We had a kitchen delivered, these belong to someone else as they belong to a bed, they were not on our order. You don't owe us a credit". He was so taken aback and responded with " Gosh thanks very much for being honest"
My motto is if you're honest, you can't get caught out.
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Yep, a couple days ago someone hit my work car while parked. No note left, panel beater reckons that it will need painting >:( >:( >:(
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Alway brings a smile to my face when I see fresh paint chips on my brush bars or side steps ;)
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Yep, a couple days ago someone hit my work car while parked. No note left, panel beater reckons that it will need painting >:( >:( >:(
same story
but I need a grill, headlight, radiator support, and the panel surrounding the front lights on the corolla..
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My motto is if you're honest, you can't get caught out.
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no good turn goes unpunished
gordo350
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same story
but I need a grill, headlight, radiator support, and the panel surrounding the front lights on the corolla..
Bloody pricks, did they hit you at 60kph haha?!?
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Bloody pricks, did they hit you at 60kph haha?!?
reversed into while it was parked. had to be a 4wd towbar...
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I would like to think that most people would put their hand up and take responsibility for damaging someones property.
Unfortunately this is becoming all to rare these days.
Many years ago an older woman backed into the drivers headlight of our VL Dunnydoor while it was parked at work.
She came in to work asking who's red Commodore was parked in the car park, she was very distressed and shaking. I recognized her from living near a dairy on my way to work.
We both went out to check it out, there was no panel damage just a broken head light.
So there and then I rang the wreckers, who I got on well with, 130 bucks, she drove out there and picked it up.
That night I replaced it without too much drama.
The following afternoon on my way home I dropped a couple of big blocks of chocolates off to her on my way home to say thank you.
Her son who has Down syndrome squeezed me to death with cuddles, saying thank you thank you.
A couple of days later the owner of the dairy dropped into see me with a hand written thank you note from her and he thanked me for helping her out, he explained she had no insurance, her car was due for rego soon, and her husband had not long past away and her son needed a lot of help.
This something that I will remember for many years. ;D
I don't understand why others that have insurance or can well afford to fix their mistakes don't put they hand and take responsibility ???
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I got side swiped whilst parked on Mooloolaba Esplanade. A couple of holiday makers found me while I was looking at my wrx wondering wtf happened and gave me a piece of paper with the rego of the offender on it.
Found out the owners name and drove over to their house to say hi and it turned out to be a coppers wife!
That was an interesting meeting of the minds lol..........
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This is a pic my brother sent me a couple of months ago.
Apparently, a car snagged the towbar then dragged the camry over into the other one. The said car then did a runner.
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I have been sitting in cars on several ocasions and had Air Bandits open their doors into mine knowing full well I was sitting in the car...there is NO hope...
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I would like to think that most people would put their hand up and take responsibility for damaging someones property.
Unfortunately this is becoming all to rare these days.
i don't think it's anything new really...many years ago i borrowed my brothers car to drive to work and the plumber on site backed his ute into the front of it causing some minorish damage (but enough to need repair work done to it). The plumber drove off and the only way i found out about it was another mate on the site saw it happen and came and told me about it and who'd done it. The plumber returned to the site about an hour later and i hit him up about the damge, he reckoned he was going to come and tell me he did it, but i know he wouldn't of except someone else had seen him do it.
My mum also had her new couple of months old car damaged in a shopping centre carpark about 3 years back, a large section of the rear arch above the drivers side tyre was pretty badly dented in, where some clown had cleaned he car up trying to swing into the carpark beside her.....they did a runner and she was left to look after the damage herself ::)
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30 years ago I was sitting in my dad's brand new company car and someone opened their door onto it and caused a dent.
Their attitude was "So what, it's only a car". needsless to say I got their rego number as they drove off and found another poor unsuspecting car to park beside.
Bunyip
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The are two possibilities that I can see
1. They don't have insurance
2. They have insurance but are too tight to pay the excess.
Fortunately the wife has insurance and the $$ for the excess. Yep still laughing :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup:
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About a year ago I pulled into a car park next to another car. As I was about to get out, the driver returned to her car with trolley in hand. She went to the back door to put her groceries in on the back seat. I sat and watch thinking she had better hang on to that door in the wind. Sure enough, BANG...! I get out of the car to approach said woman. She was merrily continuing to empty her trolley, supposedly unaware of her actions. I asked her if she realised her door had hit my car. She said no it didn't...! I pointed to the mark on the door to which she replied it was there before she arrived. I told her I was in the car at the time and saw it happen. She then said it was my fault for parking next to her and not somewhere else. I explained that was no excuse to which she then accused me of racially abusing her. As she finished loading her car, I took some photos of her car and the damage. She then told be its no point as this wasn't her car. She drove off almost hitting a couple of cars on the way out.
I passed the info to the police who charged her with leaving the scene of an accident without exchanging details and driving an unregistered vehicle. I believe they also had a word to her about reverse racism...!
Occasionally there is justice in this world...!
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The are two possibilities that I can see
1. They don't have insurance
2. They have insurance but are too tight to pay the excess.
Fortunately the wife has insurance and the $$ for the excess. Yep still laughing :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup: :cup:
Glad to hear you're still laughing............
Just for future reference, what is the closest hospital we can visit you in when it all goes south????
If we don't hear from you for a few days we'll come knocking....