I have had it happen many times over the years, happened again just yesterday, as I saw the whole thing happen. Sometimes I am sitting in the vehicle, other times I only find the post damage when I am washing the car, and find a new dent, or ding, that someone left me while I wasnt looking. As many of you know this can be quite aggravating. This is the reason I will not leave the Chevelle unattended for any reason,bad enough to find a new ding in my pick up.My new position is, if you have put a ding in my vehicle, or done any damage that will not buff out, and I have witnessed it,we need to exchange insurance information, along with a signed admission of guilt, or a police report. What say you?

If I see someone do it to my car, I do it to theirs. People are rude and uncaring, respect my property and I will respect yours.

If I see someone do it to my car, I do it to theirs. People are rude and uncaring, respect my property and I will respect yours.

I hate to admit this but I've done the same thing. The last time it happened I was sitting in my car. I got out looked at the ding,looked at the guy,opened my door on his.Whats he gonna do? People just don't care,hey it's ONLY a car.:mad:

I usually respond with a big Footprint in their door. No need for another Ding or Scratch.
Mike

I would exchange information and get there plate number if they didnt want to give me there information. If it was on purpose....eye for an eye, but one step beyond.

I always try and park far away from others and on an end spot. also on a slight up hill that way when the door goes open it doesnt fly. I think it if did happen I would wait for them to come out ( write licence number down first ) and go from there . they are making these parking spots narrow now for these puddle jumpers. good post

I had a lady kick her door open into my truck once while in the Burger King parking lot while I was sitting in it.....I went around to look and somehow there was no damage so I just looked at her like I was angry, and she apologized. I vote for the ding for ding theory, except my ding on your car will be bigger:D.

If I see someone do it to my car, I do it to theirs. People are rude and uncaring, respect my property and I will respect yours.

I hate to admit this but I've done the same thing. The last time it happened I was sitting in my car. I got out looked at the ding,looked at the guy,opened my door on his.Whats he gonna do? People just don't care,hey it's ONLY a car.:mad:

I usually respond with a big Footprint in their door. No need for another Ding or Scratch.
Mike

I had a lady kick her door open into my truck once while in the Burger King parking lot while I was sitting in it.....I went around to look and somehow there was no damage so I just looked at her like I was angry, and she apologized. I vote for the ding for ding theory, except my ding on your car will be bigger:D.

That is not the way a civilized person handles accidents and certainly wouldn't help matters one bit.

Get their insurance information and have the damaged repaired.

If I actually witnessed them do it, I would get insurance info. No more. Why stoop to thier level and cause damage to thier car :( Then you are no better than they are.

Police wont take a report, forget it. Get their ins, if they dont give you the info you have to take them to small claims..

I JUST went through this last week. lazy turd pushed some shopping carts out of the way with her car and put two nice sized dents (not dings) in the bed of my truck which was painted last yr. Wouldnt give info, police wont do anything as its not a traffic collision and on privately owned property .To top it off she says its the carts fault not hers. MY ins said take a hike too. :thumbsup:

Parking lots had cameras all over the place otherwise it............:mad:

That is not the way a civilized person handles accidents and certainly wouldn't help matters one bit.

Maybe not, but it sure makes me feel better. I still site the time the lady indignantly slammed her door into my lifted truck. It put a sizable ding in the driver's door. Soooooo, I opened my door as hard as I could 3 or 4 times into her car before I left. I was going to paint my truck anyway, but I didn't really want the extra hour of work to repair the ding she left. It wound up costing me a FEW extra hours of body work, but I least I had the satisfaction of retribution.

That is not the way a civilized person handles accidents and certainly wouldn't help matters one bit.

Get their insurance information and have the damaged repaired.

i agree. but i have done the eye for and eye thing and most people dont care about there cars as much as us therefore a new door ding in there cars is something they wont notice or care about the people that care about there stuff seem to usally respet others stuff.

i do body and paint work for a living so when i get a ding i cant live with i just fix it

and yes get there insurance information and send it to your body shop of choice so guys like me can keep having a paycheck LOL

If I actually witnessed them do it, I would get insurance info. No more. Why stoop to thier level and cause damage to thier car :( Then you are no better than they are.

Bill, aren't we all created equal ?

Police wont take a report, forget it. Get their ins, if they dont give you the info you have to take them to small claims..

I JUST went through this last week. lazy turd pushed some shopping carts out of the way with her car and put two nice sized dents (not dings) in the bed of my truck which was painted last yr. Wouldnt give info, police wont do anything as its not a traffic collision and on privately owned property .To top it off she says its the carts fault not hers. MY ins said take a hike too. :thumbsup:

Parking lots had cameras all over the place otherwise it............:mad:

So how did it turn out and was it worth taking them to small claims? Did you get them to pay for it and the time to take off work etc...?

sigh and go on my merry way.

When I was in college I had this chic from Brazil I knew socially open a friend's car door into the side of my Camaro. I was standing there when it happened. The dent was big for a door ding, about the size of a nickel, and some dark blue paint was left behind. I walked over and looked at it, stunned by what she had done. She just smiled at me and said, "Woops, sorry" and walked away.

About 3 years ago I was at work, sitting in my Durango. Some punk in a beater Subaru pulled up into the spot next to me. He flung his door open right into the side of my Dodge, like he meant to do it. He didn't see me sitting in the car. There was a girl with him and I heard her call his name and tell him to be careful. He started laughing until I got out and walked over to his car. He tried to walk by me real fast but I stood in his way.

Turns out his door had hit the rubber trim piece that ran down the length of my vehicle from the fender to the quarter panel. No damage done. He said, "Dude, sorry man" and shrugged like it was no big deal. I told him he got lucky and gave him a hard stare. He kind of winced and snuck off.

That is not the way a civilized person handles accidents and certainly wouldn't help matters one bit.

Get their insurance information and have the damaged repaired.

You are right Dean, but with all do respect, I've made attempts to do it this way and have only gotten screwed royally in the process. I have a lein against someone's house because of this...I never collected all restitution. If I see someone do it to anyone's car, mine or not, I confront them. Lack of respect for other people's property pisses me off. If they apologize and own up to their irresponsibilty...fine, if not, well I have no problem sinking to their level. No one is going to damage anything of mine and get away with it.....period. I've tried being saying something politly only to have some jackass act like it's nothing. I've left my share of foorprints in doors. The sad fact is that people in general are selfish, rude, disrespectful A-holes and need to be dealt with as such.

Kathy Bates is my hero for doing this in Fried GReen Tomatoes...

YouTube - Towanda

Maybe not, but it sure makes me feel better. I still site the time the lady indignantly slammed her door into my lifted truck. It put a sizable ding in the driver's door. Soooooo, I opened my door as hard as I could 3 or 4 times into her car before I left. I was going to paint my truck anyway, but I didn't really want the extra hour of work to repair the ding she left. It wound up costing me a FEW extra hours of body work, but I least I had the satisfaction of retribution.
So if you have an accident then, the other person should get out and beat the heck out of your vehicle with a sledge hammer, rather than handle it like a civilized adult. :noway:

Revenge is WRONG..period.

My friend had a 66 vette, and he was sitting in a parking lot. Old lady opened the door and messed-up the Vette. He gave her a dirty look, then she says "its just a car". He got out and kicked her door in, and said, "hey, its just a car".

Immature - yes. But it made him feel better :D

I'm sorry but it's looks like I'm with the majority here.This is not doing bodily harm to somebody,and I am a very understanding and patient person and I realize accidents happen. What we are talking about here is pure carelessness and lack of respect for others property,pure and simple.

So if you have an accident then, the other person should get out and beat the heck out of your vehicle with a sledge hammer, rather than handle it like a civilized adult. :noway:

Revenge is WRONG..period.
I would like to see you try and handle like a civilized adult in Orlando:noway:
When they just get out of the car with a gun and you are asking for their insurancel:)
I dont worry about people that try and ding my truck because its jacked up to high for them and they smash there door into my stainless steel nerf bar:D:yes: and I ask them to try harder, hehe then I just run over the trunk of there car with my big tires....:yes:

This just happened to my Wife In Nov. She was pulling into a parking spot about half way in it the Lady next to her opened her door and it cut a slice in the Wife's passenger door. The Police came and wrote it up as no faught. Our Ins had to put a new skin on the 07 Maxima.

One lady smacked my friends door and not only dented in but took paint off he responded by stealing her headlights

If someone is being careful and a gust of wind comes up and pushes the door into another car that is one thing. If someone just does not care and just swings the door open that is another.

smith & wesson-that cures it
i was at Super Chevy one year, it was raining, tons of parking space, some fat jerk in a 64-65 chevelle parks right next to mine, lets the door fly open and hit mine-i didnt see any damage, but went off on him(when i got home, i found the dent) good thing i didnt see it at the show

One lady smacked my friends door and not only dented in but took paint off he responded by stealing her headlights

Now thats funny.:yes:

WHY do some of you believe that people do this stuff intentionally? :confused:

Are y'all so perfect that you have never made any mistake.

Getting revenge is acting like a bunch of second graders. :yes:

So if you have an accident then, the other person should get out and beat the heck out of your vehicle with a sledge hammer, rather than handle it like a civilized adult. :noway:

Revenge is WRONG..period.
You are 100% right on that Dean. Just leads to more problems.

I still feel bad about the one I left in an 80s K-car at a mall when I was about 8 years old... I'm sure the car's long since been melted down into a bunch of soup cans, but I can still see it like it was yesterday. Wind took the door of our Caprice when I was getting out, and I think the part that still bothers me is that I didn't tell anyone I did it. :clonk:

If it's an accident or of an uncontrollable situation then oh well..if it's due to carelessness it depends on attitude when I confront them..I have stuck my elbow in a trunk before denting the crap out of it due to them letting me know "it's just a car get over it"..and dared them to say a word!! http://www.bansheehq.com/forums/style_emoticons/Dark/banghead.gif (javascript:add_smilie(":banghead:","smid_57"))

Getting insurance info doesn't do much good, you're company usually ends up fixing it and billing theirs but normally it doesn't get past your deductible so you end up paying anyway...

WHY do some of you believe that people do this stuff intentionally? :confused:

Are y'all so perfect that you have never made any mistake.

Getting revenge is acting like a bunch of second graders. :yes:

I don't think it's a matter of doing it intentionally, I KNOW it's the lack of responsibility for ones actions that cause the rest of us to feel this way. Like I said before, own up to your mistake and deal with the consequences.

Without a doubt, a boot to their quarter panel is how I always handle it. It may be childish but it definitely makes me feel better.

So how did it turn out and was it worth taking them to small claims? Did you get them to pay for it and the time to take off work etc...?

Just happened a few days ago. Ill find her place myself (took a pic of her plate) and just show up at their front door. WIll cost about $500 to get fixed and I dont have it.

She said at one point "what do you want from me"? I just told her take care of the damage I dont even need to see a dime just pay the paint guy hes reasonable. When she shined me on and held no accountability at all & her hubby shows up 10 minutes later trying to play tough on me thats when I got pissed. Cant force them to give info but I can stop by and say...Hi. :mad:

Their attitude was "too bad, xxxx you.".

NO, XXXX you, and XXXX you again :thumbsup:



If my truck was already beat up Id probably let it go but I just had the whole thing repainted (black) for the 3rd time in 6 yrs due to hit and runs which I had to pay for and deal with a lot of BS.

67T56Elky (http://www.chevelles.com/forums/member.php?u=28700) thats when you make a combo cocktail of MEK and brake fluidl:) And tell them you are here to wash there car for free...

I was always taught to turn the other cheek. I am running out of cheeks.

door dings are a hard one to swallow. you guys are right that cops wont take a report. you also have to pay up your deductable so youre out of pocket 500 big ones and that is probably all that it is going to cost and ins. wont have to fork over any cash. door dings suck!!!

Getting insurance info doesn't do much good, you're company usually ends up fixing it and billing theirs but normally it doesn't get past your deductible so you end up paying anyway...

Ditto on that. Add to that you've now made a claim and the company holds it against you anyway. Scamsurance these days is a terrible thing. Everyone has to have it, but everyone is afraid to use it.

Without a doubt, a boot to their quarter panel is how I always handle it. It may be childish but it definitely makes me feel better.

As stated above, not the way to go, but there are individuals in this world who understand nothing else, and they need to have the " favour " returned to them to make any kind of mental impact on them.

I was always taught to turn the other cheek. I am running out of cheeks.

Yeah, I hear you on that one. It gets harder and harder, which makes the " Eye For an Eye " concept more appealing all the time.

well if u see it i would call the cops.or leave them a surprise.you cant have nothin nice in the world no more

we have evolved into a society where most of the time common sense is dead and its all been replaced by laws and procedures.And they are not usually in the victims favor,especially when some careless dumb@ss dings your car door.
Better off to take the high road and let someone else catch the idiot doing it to their car that is not as nice as yourself :)
Yelling at the idiot could probably get you a breach of peace even though common sense dictates that they are at fault.

Someone opened their door into the wife's car when it was 2 days old & left a ding while I was sitting in the car.
I gave him a death stare that was answered with a shoulder shrug as he as he & his buddies chuckled and walked away.

The idiot was driving a convertable & I always carry a pocket knife...................

Someone opened their door into the wife's car when it was 2 days old & left a ding while I was sitting in the car.
I gave him a death stare that was answered with a shoulder shrug as he as he & his buddies chuckled and walked away.

The idiot was driving a convertable & I always carry a pocket knife...................


l:) Pocket knives go along way...Had a guy pull his monster truck tire onto my wifes 2002 Trans Am Ram Air and leave a scuff mark from his tire on her fender..Truck was so tall he couldn't see to park..so I helped out a little bit and shrunk his 38" super swampers so he could see better..:D

it's a miazing more of you haven't been shot..
two wrongs don't make it right..
and the first has the benny of it being a mistake.. the 2nd is destruction of prop.
AND I'd see you in cuffs..
alot of 3rd graders on here..

If I see them do it and confront them, it depends on their attitude. Sometimes people really do slip and have an accident and they are very apologetic and offer to pay a dentpro guy. Other times they have the "who cares, it's just a car" attitude. Other times they are flat out jerks!

For the last 2 situations, the people who don't care about your car probably don't care about theirs, so doing something that affects their time & schedule & life rather than their car is much more effective-- which is why I'm a fan of leaving a note and removing all 4 of their valve stem cores... No permanent or expensive damage done but it's a huge inconvenience for them and something they won't soon forget.

A couple years ago a friend had a guy in a fairly new Dodge pickup ding his brand new G35; it was straight carelessness flinging the door open. My friend saw it and he nicely confronted the guy; the guy had the nerve to cop an attitude and say "what are you going to do about it?"

My friend had several cans of expanding foam in the car with him for home repair... he emptied ALL of them into this guy's fairly new pickup. Between the gaps of the window fuzzies, down the cowl vents, and even into the exhaust. That was ugly! It popped door panels off, some made it out the dash vents, etc.

Parking lot rash & vandalism are the main reasons I sold the only car I ever bought new-- my 2005 Subaru STI. I kept it spotless. I was always nervous about going anywhere and where I parked it, and when someone keyed it in my grandmothers driveway on Christmas eve I decided I no longer wanted an expensive & perfect daily driver... I just worried about it way too much.

This hasn't happened in the Chevelle..thank goodness. But, I was on the balcony of my brothers apartment one day and a guy opened his door into my Monte Carlo. I yelled down at him and he said, "it's an old car, it will be ok" He changed his tune when I walked downstairs to confront him. He gave me a $100 and I called it even.

Another time I was sitting in my NEW F150 waiting for a medical appointment (arrived early) and a construction worker, was getting into his truck. He bumped my door with his truck door and I rolled my window down and yelled at him. He bent down, looked at it, got in his (work) truck and said, "it didn't hurt it, it's a new truck". As I got out of my truck he pulled off and yelled something. So, I picked up a rock and threw it at him. I hit the bed of his truck with the rock and he kept going. I know it was childish, but hey...I couldn't run and catch up with him.

Now, I try and park far away from the bunch. If we go to dinner or shopping, I drop my wife and kids off at the door and walk back to the building.

I love how Lois handled it

http://www.gather.com/viewVideo.jsp?id=11821949021860168

:hurray:

I love how Lois handled it

:hurray:

Now that is funny!!!

I pack a sharpie nowdays. This happens and folks get nice big notes in nice big letters on their front window - no paper, right on the glass. Wont come off right away so until they get home and break out some cleaner and elbow grease its there.

I've also yanked valve stems from tires and set them on the roof. Empty tire, no valve stem, no tool, no patience....your hosed until you get a bunch of air in your tire in the mall parking lot but your tire isnt permanently damaged.

If it was bad enough I would wait and demand money, demand insurance....and if nobody corrected it then i'd take it upon myself to deduct an equal amount of irritation, money and agravation from the offenders cars or property.

I believe in revenge. I believe in leveling a field. I believe that a good majority of careless aholes out there would snap out of it and pay attention IF the people they are affecting apply revenge right there, on the spot, when they do their deed. If it cant be had then, have it later. But I dont let people get away with things. Might be years, but i'll get ya.

In fact, theres someone right here on TC that screwed me and lives within driving distance. That field will be leveled eventually, I never forgive or forget and payback is ahhhhh comin'.....Revenge is the only thing I have patience for

That has Beaux written all over it :yes: http://www.gather.com/viewVideo.jsp?id=11821949021860168

you could do this to the offending door dinger:

YouTube - Exploding Car

:D ;)

Bill, aren't we all created equal ?

Yes, but we don't all end up equal.

My father in law had just parked and gotten out of his brand new BMW 550. As he was walking away some guy in the space next to him got out yelling about how my FIL had dinged his door. They guy was demanding cash on the spot to pay for the dent. My FIL walked back to his car opened the door all of the way and still had 3'' between them. The guy proceded to get in his car and drive away. People are horrible.

I love how Lois handled it



:hurray: l:)l:)

Police wont take a report, forget it. Get their ins, if they dont give you the info you have to take them to small claims..

I JUST went through this last week. lazy turd pushed some shopping carts out of the way with her car and put two nice sized dents (not dings) in the bed of my truck which was painted last yr. Wouldnt give info, police wont do anything as its not a traffic collision and on privately owned property .To top it off she says its the carts fault not hers. MY ins said take a hike too. :thumbsup:

Parking lots had cameras all over the place otherwise it............:mad:

Since the offender didn't poey up and accept responsibility there might be another option. If you have comprehensive on your truck it should covered it. Pete

This hasn't happened in the Chevelle..thank goodness. But, I was on the balcony of my brothers apartment one day and a guy opened his door into my Monte Carlo. I yelled down at him and he said, "it's an old car, it will be ok"

The "It's an old car" line will change my attitude faster than one can blink.

Was waiting for Sears Automotive to open (MetroCenter/Phoenix) one morning. I was the only car there---til some bozo in a BRAND NEW 81 T-Bird pulls up right along side of me and swings his door hard into my passenger door. I was SITTING inside the 67 Chrys 300 (which to date has been my alltime favorite car), and this clown gives me the "Oh well, it's and old car:boring:" line. (My cookies are now well frosted:mad:).

I quietly got out of the car and walked around to the passenger side and opened my door----and swung it just as hard as I could into the door of the T-Bird (t-bird door now needing some serious help) and mentioned to him not so nicely---"May be old, but it is MINE and it is PAID for, and I don't need an a$$ like you F****** it up for me.".

The big ol Chrysler door was not gonna bend for anybody---let alone a tinfoil t-bird and the idiot owner

it's a miazing more of you haven't been shot..
two wrongs don't make it right..
and the first has the benny of it being a mistake.. the 2nd is destruction of prop.
AND I'd see you in cuffs..
alot of 3rd graders on here..

Just call it an equalization of the situation :yes::yes:

Yes, but we don't all end up equal.

Wasn't it Sam Colt that helped equal everyone ?

As my car sticker still says from the early 70's, ---
You can play with my money
You can play with my wife
But when you touch my car
You're f***ing with your life

The *** does not appear on the sticker, the charaters are uck. Didn't know if I could put that word on the forumn.

I might act like 3rd grade kid...but I put hard work and money in all my rides....I park away from folks..my wife will fight for upfront parking.PISSES ME OFF..The paint job on her 2002 Ram Air cost me 2k and I did all the work myself..so YES..Call me a child when you F'up and play dumb or careless or uncaring!! Not alot of people buy new cars and strip then and repaint them to be custum jobs..I DO!! The old car line..oh man...oh man...Will be an elbow in trunk!!! :D Trunk lids cost bunches........

Some people obviously dont do this on purpose. Those people are also usually the ones that immidiately look to make sure that they havent done any damage to your or their car.

Then there are the people that should be taken into the middle of the parking lot and beaten vigorously. I am proud to say that I have NEVER hit anyone elses car with my door like that. I have however, had people do it to me. Whether I be there to see it or not. The one I remember the best was in my first car, a '91 Mitsubishi Eclipse that I spent ALL my time and energy on.It was just a couple mile from my house. It had new paint (a feew months), and a built motor that put out about 400hp with about 14lbs of boost on pumpgas. This AZZbag of a woman opened her door into my passenger door with the friggin force of Zeus himself. She hit the car so hard with her door that I actually thought someone fell onto my car. Either way, she denied this to the bitter end. We argued about it for a good 15 minutes in the parking lot about what she had done. So as she is standing there with all the attitide she could muster up, I just told her " If you arent going to make it right, Ill just give you a little reminder of me!" So I proceeded to my car and got out my bat (I used to play alot of baseball) and hit every single panel on her car until I felt I was made whole.

I wonder if she ever did that to anyone else.....

Geez, Will.

That's some frosted cookies, right there, man.

Some people obviously dont do this on purpose. Those people are also usually the ones that immidiately look to make sure that they havent done any damage to your or their car.

Then there are the people that should be taken into the middle of the parking lot and beaten vigorously. I am proud to say that I have NEVER hit anyone elses car with my door like that. I have however, had people do it to me. Whether I be there to see it or not. The one I remember the best was in my first car, a '91 Mitsubishi Eclipse that I spent ALL my time and energy on.It was just a couple mile from my house. It had new paint (a feew months), and a built motor that put out about 400hp with about 14lbs of boost on pumpgas. This AZZbag of a woman opened her door into my passenger door with the friggin force of Zeus himself. She hit the car so hard with her door that I actually thought someone fell onto my car. Either way, she denied this to the bitter end. We argued about it for a good 15 minutes in the parking lot about what she had done. So as she is standing there with all the attitide she could muster up, I just told her " If you arent going to make it right, Ill just give you a little reminder of me!" So I proceeded to my car and got out my bat (I used to play alot of baseball) and hit every single panel on her car until I felt I was made whole.

I wonder if she ever did that to anyone else.....

Keep one thing in mind..I say this as I have no problem elbowing a car or anything to return the dent in that situation (in front of them if all possible)..but keep in mind people can be nuts..I was hit in rearend while driving my father inlaws truck by a Senior Fire Fighter of the Memphis Department..as I was checking on my son after wreck I turned to looking down the barrel of his glock as he thought I hit brake on purpose to wreck him for tailgating me when all I was doing was stopping for a red light.:mad:

Will,
If that's a true story, it's wrong in so many ways.. I forget who the original poster was for this phrase, but "You've got to get that cat to quit pissing in your cheerios."

Will,
If that's a true story, it's wrong in so many ways.. I forget who the original poster was for this phrase, but "You've got to get that cat to quit pissing in your cheerios."

l:) I gotta know who said that..you need to remember..:yes:

I hate to admit this but I've done the same thing. The last time it happened I was sitting in my car. I got out looked at the ding,looked at the guy,opened my door on his.Whats he gonna do? People just don't care,hey it's ONLY a car.:mad:

I don't use my door, I use my foot:yes:

l:) I gotta know who said that..you need to remember..:yes:

credits go to webfoot http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250182&highlight=cat+quit+pissing&page=5 about 3/4 down the page 2nd to last post

I don't use my door, I use my foot:yes:

Well I'll fess up again. I did that one time myself. But hey,I was a young punk and I only had my TransAm for a week until I got that dent right on the body line.

I look at my 2003 Impala and it has about 4 or 5 dings and a dent on the front of the fender thanks to people like that. I know they happened at WalMart so the cops probably would not want nothing to do with it. I do know of one individual that kicked his door in after getting a little ding in his and claimed vandalism. They had to put a new door on his Z-34 Lumina and repaint.

credits go to webfoot http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250182&highlight=cat+quit+pissing&page=5 about 3/4 down the page 2nd to last post


I remember that thread...I stayed out of that one..:D

I didn't know there was so many still in high school...

Depends on their reaction. I would prefer to keep things nice, and if they were willing to take care of the damage I would do my best to not get upset, and would apreciate their reasonable attitude. If someone acknowlaged they did the damage, and told me too bad and refused to do anything about it, I would definately react. We all know there is no legal recourse for this sort of thing, and it's because of that people want revenge. How one is supposed to have a civil responce when the person who did the damage is not civil is beyond me. If a person feels it is ok to damage other people's property and have no concequences, they need to learn otherwise and join the rest of us in being reasonable human beings who take the concequences of our actions, accidental or otherwise. In most cases the law is there to teach these lessons, and so miscreants are able to learn the error of their ways. In this case however, the law does fail to teach this important lesson. Still the lesson must be taught, and so some people take it upon themselves.

Rather than name calling and guessing at the education level of those who would defend their property when the law will not, why don't some of the nay sayers give us some constructive ideas on how one should deal with a situation in which a person admits to causing the damage yet is unwilling to compensate. Please keep in mind that (to the best of my knowlage) there is no legal recourse for this type of damage.

Living in a small town, i know it's only a matter of time before i see that vehicle again, seeing as I ride around town on a downhill bike with pedals that have set screws sticking out for grip, well you get the idea...

That is not the way a civilized person handles accidents and certainly wouldn't help matters one bit.

Get their insurance information and have the damaged repaired.


And if they don't have insurance?