So how wrong is it to return a dent in your car

[DarkThinker]

Dings are awful, especially if both parties are present it gets ugl sometimes! Hell the only time I ever had to get into a fight with anyone (well outside of High School anyways) was because of a stupid ding that wasn't even my fault! I ran into this dumbass ~30 year old red neck at a Home Depot parking lot. For some reason he accused me of dinging his new F-150 pickup, which was impossible, because the ding was from my passenger side and I was alone!, I told him "Can't you see that it's not from my side and I don't have anyone with??". He got extremely angry and said "You liar, you're trying to play me for a jackass you MF!" and shoved me! As my back painfully hit my car's side, I was like WTF I lost it and landed a couple on his chest and face, luckily he fell immediately and I took off as fast as I could so it doesn't escalate and the police is involved! And all of that because of a stupid ding WTH is wrong with people!

 

[FoBoT]

don't buy nice new car

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: moshquerade
door dings suck.

i watched someone flip open their big ass ancient car door and hit my car once, and i couldn't do anything about it. the guy looked big and mean.

Sure you could, write down their license plate # and report it

Report it to who and with what expectation?

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: aphex
New Car = Always park far away

at which point does it turn old?

 

[purbeast0]

i always park farther away. i'm not a lazy mofo and i would rather walk an extra 100 feet than worry about some grandma parking inches from my car and having to get her fat ass out the door.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
and my family thinks I'm crazy because I park a mile away. I don't want anyone banging my doors.

im the asshole who parks next to you when you park a mile away

no you aren't, really? that's so vindictive.

 

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: moshquerade
door dings suck.

i watched someone flip open their big ass ancient car door and hit my car once, and i couldn't do anything about it. the guy looked big and mean.

Sure you could, write down their license plate # and report it

actually i inquired about it on the phone to the cops and they said there isn't really anything they can do about it.

door dings happen all over all the time, and have you ever heard of someone being charged for it?

well this is immature, petty, and stupid cause it didn't really do anything, but Im guilty of doing it once. To get back at someone I once reported their car for giving off too much exhaust. I think when that happens they get a letter in the mail and are required to get a smog check at their cost. Hooray for inconveniencing them!!

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: Anubis
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At first glance I read your sig as GO BOTOX GO :laugh:

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: m0mentary

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: moshquerade
door dings suck.

i watched someone flip open their big ass ancient car door and hit my car once, and i couldn't do anything about it. the guy looked big and mean.

Sure you could, write down their license plate # and report it

actually i inquired about it on the phone to the cops and they said there isn't really anything they can do about it.

door dings happen all over all the time, and have you ever heard of someone being charged for it?

well this is immature, petty, and stupid cause it didn't really do anything, but Im guilty of doing it once. To get back at someone I once reported their car for giving off too much exhaust. I think when that happens they get a letter in the mail and are required to get a smog check at their cost. Hooray for inconveniencing them!!

In my more vindictive days, I would write down their license plate, go to work the next day, look up their records, then send them stuff in the mail, first explaining what they did and what kind of spam I would be signing them up for unless they did such and such.

If I felt really bad, I'd find someone we were looking for who kind of matched their description, address information and send a couple of private detectives over to them to look for this person and serve their court papers.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
and my family thinks I'm crazy because I park a mile away. I don't want anyone banging my doors.

im the asshole who parks next to you when you park a mile away

Why?

 

[shiner]

I always retaliate.

For example:

A couple of weeks ago I went out to get in my car to go to lunch and a jackass in a pickup had parked so close to me that before he could even pull in all the way he had to get out and fold my side mirror in.

I came back to my office, retrieved a couple of screwdrivers, a hex driver and printed out a sign that said "Learn how to park you inconsiderate fuck!" then returned to his truck and took his side mirrors off and put them in the bed of his truck with the sign taped to them.

Then I went to lunch.

 

[shiner]

As another example:

When I lived in an apartment about 10 years ago I had a neighbor who constantly dinged the hell out of my passenger's side with her driver's side door. We had assigned parking so I knew it was her. In fact I had seen her do it a couple of times.

I had talked to her about it and told her to cut it out. Our spots were plenty wide enough that she should be able to open the doors of her Honda without issue. Hell I drove a Dodge Durango and never opened my door into the neighbor to the next of me.

Anyway....I was just getting ready to leave for work one morning when she pulled into her spot, opened her door hard into my Durango then proceeded to walk to her apartment. I got out of my car and yelled at her about it and she made some smart ass remark. At that point I started kicking the shit out of her driver's side door until I had caved it in. She came running up screaming at me about it. I told her I had warned her plenty of times to stop fucking dinging me or it was going to cost her then got in my Durango and left.

Shortly after that she and her idiot boyfriend, who I had to pull a gun on twice, were both killed while driving drunk.

Sometimes the universe really does clean itself up quite nicely.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
I always retaliate.

For example:

A couple of weeks ago I went out to get in my car to go to lunch and a jackass in a pickup had parked so close to me that before he could even pull in all the way he had to get out and fold my side mirror in.

I came back to my office, retrieved a couple of screwdrivers, a hex driver and printed out a sign that said "Learn how to park you inconsiderate fuck!" then returned to his truck and took his side mirrors off and put them in the bed of his truck with the sign taped to them.

Then I went to lunch.

lol... thought you were going to "key" those words into his truck. This was a lot more toned down.

To the second example... WOW. I will refrain from commenting on the right and wrong.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Don't damage their car over door dings. Parking is tight and that's the problem with no solution. Revenge is not going to reduce your door dings. It probably won't make you feel as good as you think it will in the end either.

Don't blame it on the situation. There is a solution - the problem wouldn't exist if idiots paid attention to wtf they're doing. It's very easy to get into and out of a car without hitting anything with your doors.

Until we breed out all of the stupid people (unlikely since they seem to reproduce at a higher rate than everyone else ), I do the following:
1. Park next to cars that are much nicer than my own. If I can park between a Mercedes and a BMW, I'm golden.
2. Don't park next to a car that appears to be used to transport children. Including minivans. Kids can sit in the front seat.
3. Park next to sedans, not coupes. Sedans have smaller doors. This can conflict with 2.
4. A good percentage of cars do not have any passengers. So given the choice of parking closer to the passenger side of a car or parking closer to the driver's side of a car, I'd park closer to the passenger side.

It's not that simple. There isn't any single person here who has not accidentally door dinged someone due to a tight parking situation while trying to get out of your car even while being careful. I am pretty skinny and I still run into that problem occasionally. I'm sure it happens more with overweight people. That's just the way it is. It will continue to happen until parking spots get wider which also will never happen.

In any case, I really don't even know why I am posting this. I got door dings and I don't even care. There are so many worse things to care about and I only have so much energy to dedicate so I try not to sweat the little things.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: shinerburke
I always retaliate.

For example:

A couple of weeks ago I went out to get in my car to go to lunch and a jackass in a pickup had parked so close to me that before he could even pull in all the way he had to get out and fold my side mirror in.

I came back to my office, retrieved a couple of screwdrivers, a hex driver and printed out a sign that said "Learn how to park you inconsiderate fuck!" then returned to his truck and took his side mirrors off and put them in the bed of his truck with the sign taped to them.

Then I went to lunch.

lol... thought you were going to "key" those words into his truck. This was a lot more toned down.

To the second example... WOW. I will refrain from commenting on the right and wrong.

My temper got out of control much easier back then.

Hell in college I threw a brick through a guy's car windows because I had seen him back into my Blazer while sitting on the balcony of my apartment.

I yelled at him to wait there, but he kept walking. By the time I made it downstairs he was walking down the sidewalk to his apartment. I yelled for him to stop and started running but he made it to his door and went inside. I started knocking and ringing his doorbell but he wouldn't come out of his apartment. I finally got pissed off and went an found a few bricks and tossed them through his windows and bounced a couple of the hood of his car just for good measure.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Every time people get in and out of my car at school, they ding the cars next to me. I'm usually pretty careful not to ding cars when opening the door. Yesterday, though, I was riding in a friend's car and he parked a little close to another car. I didn't realize how far out the metal went on the door from the "seal," so I hit the other car kinda hard. The driver was in the car too. I think she said something to me, but I don't know what. Probably just "good job hitting my door."

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

How do you even know that person dinged your car? I was walking out of work on day, and as I was passing the front desk the security guard pointed at me and said, "I think that is him." There was someone standing with that guard who claimed his door had a dent in it from the car parked next to him.

They asked me the make and model of my car. Immediately the guy starts yelling at me for dinging his car.

I said, "Well, lets go out and look". So we head out to where my car was parked. I opened my driver's side door and when it swung out it did not even come close to touching the guy's door. Even if it did the mark would have been in the wrong spot.

The guy then apologized to me. I'm glad he had the sense not to try and return the favor.

 

[dlock13]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: shinerburke
I always retaliate.

For example:

A couple of weeks ago I went out to get in my car to go to lunch and a jackass in a pickup had parked so close to me that before he could even pull in all the way he had to get out and fold my side mirror in.

I came back to my office, retrieved a couple of screwdrivers, a hex driver and printed out a sign that said "Learn how to park you inconsiderate fuck!" then returned to his truck and took his side mirrors off and put them in the bed of his truck with the sign taped to them.

Then I went to lunch.

lol... thought you were going to "key" those words into his truck. This was a lot more toned down.

To the second example... WOW. I will refrain from commenting on the right and wrong.

My temper got out of control much easier back then.

Hell in college I threw a brick through a guy's car windows because I had seen him back into my Blazer while sitting on the balcony of my apartment.

I yelled at him to wait there, but he kept walking. By the time I made it downstairs he was walking down the sidewalk to his apartment. I yelled for him to stop and started running but he made it to his door and went inside. I started knocking and ringing his doorbell but he wouldn't come out of his apartment. I finally got pissed off and went an found a few bricks and tossed them through his windows and bounced a couple of the hood of his car just for good measure.

I want more stories! These are so funny.
MORE!

 

[ATLien247]

One time, one of my former co-workers had just bought a new Dodge Ram, and he found a small ding in his door the first day he parked it at work. The paint matched that of the car parked next to him, and it lined up pretty well. So what does he do? He kicks the side mirror off of it. I just stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds. We never found out whose car it was, and there wasn't any retaliation, so we weren't sure if the person ever figured it out.

Another time, I was just about to start up my car to leave. A person pulled into the parking spot beside me, so I figured I would wait until they had gotten out of the car before I started backing out. When the passenger opened their door, the wind caught it and slammed it into my car. You should have seen the looks on their faces! I rolled down my window and told them it was no big deal, that this car was by beater. The funny thing was that my "beater" was actually newer and nicer than the vehicle they drove. I didn't check the damage until I got home, but when I did it was worse than I expected. In hindsight, I should've gotten their insurance information.

 

[AdamK47]

You may want to check the return policy, but I don't think you can return one when you were given it for free. Badum-bum-bum

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: aphex
New Car = Always park far away

I do this anyway, hate people who nail my car! I prefer to walk a little bit too.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I always park as far away as I can.

 

[Alistar7]

Buy a gun and hide in your trunk. If you feel/hear anyone banging their door into yours, jump out and waste them on the spot.

 

[John]

Trunk monkey?

 

[Ricemarine]

If only I could return a dent in a guy's car... A woman and her mentally retarded son decided to block my way out of getting out of my parking spot. So I wait there for 10 minutes in my parking spot since I'm in no hurry... All of a sudden, the mentally retarded son gets out of her car, and the son goes into the car next to mine, a ford taurus, SMACK... WTF? So apparently he couldn't get in the first time, he does it TWO MORE TIMES... I was about to yell at the guy but then realized mentally retarded kids get you nowhere in life in complaining and so I let it go... But now I have pretty nice dings on my corolla.