ok...major funk going on. I park on the street and will be finding alternate parking tomorrow, I've been lucky for four months so it was a good run. My street has terrible on street parking, but that is how it is here, if a spot remains open for 30 seconds, that is a long time.

Last night - thursday, a friend parked on my street and when they were ready to leave, I went and got my car and we "traded spots" [very typical of LA parking] While I was getting my car, a VW bug was zipping up and down hoping to get the SPOT. My friend pulled out when I arrived behind, ready to pull in. The VW was waiting to see if there would be any more room. I pulled in and then I pulled back so that I would be on the edge of the RED, legal, but as far back so that I could back out of the spot and leave as much room in front of me as possible. The VW was not happy since she thought I should pull forward and let her park behind me. I signaled for her to park in front of me, but that was not going to "work" for her, she zipped off and i didn't see her again.

This afternoon, I left for a few hours and cars were parked in front of me, there was space etc. I come home tonight right before 11PM and the silver VW Bug was in front of me. I walked up to Gidget 'just to take a quick look' to make sure that she was OK when I saw it..... MY BUMPER WAS CRACKED!!! Talk about having a heartattack and wanting to kill the VW if they were the culprit.

I turn on my headlights and there it is... MY PAINT is on the VW's bumper and the B*%ch has the audacity to remain parked in front of me!!! I get my digital camera out and take photos of everything, the bumpers, my cracked license plate holder, my hood has a few scuffs and is slightly indented -- she knocked me GOOD when she backed into me. I'll take more photos early in the morning in the light but I am really shocked that she stayed parked in front of me - like I would not notice my CREAM WHITE paint on her SILVER bumper. the HORROR!!

I'm calling my insurance tomorrow and will make sure that she pays for the damage. Since she did not leave a note, is it considered a hit & run? I am so annoyed, frustrated and just plain pis*ed off. She hit Gidget so hard and you could see all the previous dings/nicks on her bumper that makes it obvious that she parks by doing the BUMPER test. She even left her wheels turned out making it appear to me even more obvious that she had a harder time fitting into that spot.


Gidget Damage
The Culprit - VW BUG
Obvious (to me) guilt

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The horror of it all! Good job for thinking clearly through the situation and docume nting it all instead of doing something like cut down a tree so that it would fall on her beetle like I might have done

It is obvious from all the other black marks on her bumper as well as the shoddily adhered crooked parking permint crookedly covering a previous expired sticker that this motorists has no care or respect for her beetle much less your MINI. Idiots!

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I hope you called the police and had a report made. Most insurance companies will not pay out on trafic accidents unless there is a police report made. If you look through the fine print on your insurance documents you will probably find it. Good luck in you venture to get Gidg fixed. I hope the B!tch pays for it herself, not her insurance.

Frank

 

Is there such a thing as "justifiable homicide?" You may have a case.

 

evil evil bug owner- i would have FLIPPEd the *%$! out- yes, definately remember to file apolice report first. karma will do the rest...

 

Bummer. Sorry Gidget.

 

Does sugar in the gas tank work, or is that just a movie myth?

That sucks so bad. Sounds like you're going to have to put up with seeing that bug all the time too.

Sorry to hear that. :evil:

 

Sorry to here that Gidget! I would be seriously ticked! Any damage to the other car?

Parking in LA is definately rough. I learned about those damn lines the hard way on my last visit to LA. I am use to NYC parking--it it fits, you're all good--not so in LA! I couldn't exactly write off a parking ticket as business expense!

Anyone else here avoid street parking since they got a MINI? or am I just overly precautious? If I must, I always look for the end of the row. The MINI is terrific at fitting in more than half inside those darn "no parking -->" signs :smile: !

 

>>Does sugar in the gas tank work, or is that just a movie myth?
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>>That sucks so bad. Sounds like you're going to have to put up with seeing that bug all the time too.
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>>Sorry to hear that. :evil:


Speaking of revenge tactics, I once heard about putting a fish under the hubcap of the offender's car. Eventually, it starts to stink, and the owner goes crazy trying to find out the source of the terrible smell!!

 

I think all morons should die. :evil: :evil: :evil: hehehe

 

good detective work young one. sorry to hear about your misadventure.
I love minis, but they definitly don't respond well to being hit. Having just 1200
miles on my mini, i received my insurance policy the other day in the post. found out i'm paying a much higher premium for this car. that's something the dealer didn't tell me ,nor did i give it much thought when buying. :???:

 

i live in LA too and was just recently a victim of hit and run!! to make matters worse, it was a regular customer where i work..!!! i filed a police report and then tried to contact the a-hole... the jerk failed to admit anything (of course) and gave insurance info... well the cops followed through and went after the guy since it's a felony!!! my thought is this, if a person is clueless enough to pull a hit and run on a parked car, heaven forbid what he could do to a biker, child, animal etc.. protect yourself and gidget!!

 

sorry to hear about gidget!
what's up with people hitting pepper white mini's?
first tony's and now yours......i hate to say it, i better not be next!
go the legal route, if all else fails......
sand in the gas tank works better than sugar!

 

I wouldn't bother with sand or sugar. Rather, turn-about is fair play. Do you have any friends with big, work-worn, pickups (e.g., contractors, construction workers?)? If you do, just get one of them to park in front/behind the offending bug and "tap" it a few times hard.

Reminds me of once in college where there was a person with a classic beetle who used to park in the actual entrance of a campus parking lot (so that others had to squeeze by her). After repeated attempts (over weeks) to get her to change her ways, several of us simply got the idea to move her car for her. That happened to involve using my 71 Buick LeSabre to push her car sideways across the gravel lot into a proper parking space. Let's just say that her parking behavior improved after that.

 

Ahhh, revenge. How to get revenge.

In high school, we drilled two holes into a ping pong ball and plopped it into one of our teacher's gas tanks. It would fill up with gas and sink to the bottom of the tank, but when she turned on her car, it would eventually get sucked up to the fuel line and starve the engine... which would stall. As soon as the engine stalled, the ping pong ball would fall back into the gas tank and sink again. So, she'd start the car and off she'd go... until the ping pong ball sucked back up to stall her engine again.

With the newer cars and the smaller spigots, it'd be harder to do this... hmmm...

Anyway, too bad about your car. Luckily, it looks like you'll be able to make a good case for her covering your repairs. The worst thing is when some jerk does this and you're out the deductible!

 

>>In high school, we drilled two holes into a ping pong ball and plopped it into one of our teacher's gas tanks. It would fill up with gas and sink to the bottom of the tank, but when she turned on her car, it would eventually get sucked up to the fuel line and starve the engine... which would stall. As soon as the engine stalled, the ping pong ball would fall back into the gas tank and sink again. So, she'd start the car and off she'd go... until the ping pong ball sucked back up to stall her engine again.

That's a nice fantasy but you obviously never followed up on that. Try putting a ping pong ball in gasoline. Most of them will dissolve.

Keith

 

We didn't stick around to see if it worked! :smile:

 

I used to love having My Big Ram 1500 with the HEAVY Chrome Bumpers.... I used to get all Crammed in a spot by overnight parkers... some people would even "kiss" my Chrome just to fit in a spot...

Mornings come... I would HAVE to leave...forward, reverse, forward, reverse about a million times is no way to live! They were in my way... No easy way for a Huge Dodge Ram to get out of a tight spot on the street... I left lasting impressions to say the least.... Out here in L.A. it's all about "ME"... Me = whoever is selfishly parking, driving, walking, breathing.
No Love Lost on that Chrome... and it was easy to wipe paint off of.

Although I got away with it, I would not endorse it... I would call the cops file a report.... it would be done over the phone, the Cops in LA don't make an appearance unless it's an emergency or the Hot & Fresh Light is on at the Krispy Kreme. They also appear when you need them least.

If you happen to file the report just after the person leaves... after you tried to contact them, even better... that is a flee then... Tag them with a hit and run...
That damage hurts your feelings more than anything else and the insurance companies might reject the claim...you might just have to take that person to small claims... the Judge will see the damage and the police report...and serve a judgement.

GOOD LUCK! NAIL THAT BUG....

 

>>We didn't stick around to see if it worked! :smile:

Along the lines of Childish revenge, I am guilty of placing a dead toad on someones dashboard... Early morning in the Middle of a Phoenix Summer....PEW!

I was young to young to drive....

I'd hate to come in to a dead toad!

 

my boyfriend drives a Toyota Supra and we were sitting in a parking lot when this idiot kid tried parking next to us and hit the rear driver's side of my boyfriends car. We didn't file a police report and the kids insurance company still covered it. My boyfriend just had to take it to a claim center for them to appraise the damage.

sorry to hear about your car though! good luck in getting that bi**h to pay for it!!

 

That stinks! From what I can tell, though, your PW is a sharp colour combination. I haven't street parked since taking delivery and have made scouting out a "safe" spot (should such a thing even exist) an art form. Here in Raleigh almost everyone drives HUGH SUV's so the trick is avoiing doors opening into your side than anything else. Good luck getting justice from the Bug.