Door-ding: WHUMP!, What do you do? Options

[Dave_Darling]

I drove my 914 to the store earlier today. As my attorney and I were walking back out to the car (one of 3 parked in a ~40 car lot), some ancient geezer in a big white full-size van dives up and parks right next to my car. About four inches next to, in fact. He opens up the door to the van, WHUMP! A nice new door ding, complete with paint chip.

He carefully squeezes out of the door (because it doesn't open very far due to being so close to my car) and starts walking away. "Excuse me--you just dented my car!!"

He looks at the ding, looks at his door, and shrugs. "Everybody does it." Uhh, noooo.... And why the hell did you have to park so close to me in an empty lot? "I'm between the lines!" Uhh, no--look again bozo. "Well whaddaya want me to do about it? Give you twenny bucks?" Sorry, old timer, but even the paintless dent removal places won't work for less than eighty. And now it needs paint, too.

I just said the hell with it, but my attorney and he kept yelling at each other. It's not like the paint on my car is in very good shape anyway, but the lack of consideration is just appalling.

I probably should have gotten his insurance info and called it in to them. I might not have gotten any money, but it would have been a pain in the butt to him and maybe he'd think twice about it in the future. Then again, he was probably 80+ so he may not be thinking or seeing so clearly anymore. He was definitely hard of hearing...

--DD

[bmcwilli]

Dave
You shoulda made him as miserable as possible...so that maybe he wouldn't have done it again!

Don't want to tee off on old folks, but maybe this guy shouldn't be driving anymore.

I am SO FED UP (yes, I'm yelling) with these a'holes that tear up other people's stuff, and walk, or run away.

My story..about 2 years ago my wife's foot slipped off the clutch of our Dodge Cummins pickup. The truck leaped forward (a lotta torque at work there with the cummins) and creamed a Hyundai. She went into the hotel, left a note with the desk, and the Hyundai guy called us. I wrote a check for 3700, prolly more than the Hyundai was worth, but that was the average of the estimates he got. I try to always do the right thing.

Fast forward to last summer. My wife is at a horse show. Comes out at the end of the show, and finds the tailgate of our Higlander smashed up so bad it won't open. No note. Fucher creamed my car and just drove away. $2700 damage on MY insurance.

BASTARD!

Folks, let NO-ONE get away with this bullshit! If someone f's up your car, make 'em PAY!~

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