Something I wanna get off my chest

Lorax

Last summer when I start driving, I was trying to fit into a tight car space in the car park of a certain shopping centre. I was still learning to drive and wasnt used to these things, anyway I accidently crushed the back bumper of a 06 bmw 5 series, it also smashed his brake/rear light. Then I looked around, nobody there?, And drove off. So if youre reading this bmw driver, Im sorry!

Anyway, anyone have similar hit-n-run stories? Come on we hav all done it

Vikings

I can honestly say I have never done that, you know i'm actually surprised the amount of things you freely admit to have done/do on this forum.

Whether you had just started driving or had been driving 20 years, that is inexcusable and you should have left a note or made an attempt to contact the guy.

Lorax

Well the way I saw it, if he/she can afford to spend €70,000 on a car they can afford the repair. I was a student at the time and hadnt got 2 cents to rub together and wasnt losing my no claims a week after getting my 1st insurance policy. I know this goes on a lot though there was a discussion on radio1 about it a while ago.

Royale with Cheese

I run over dogs for fun. I'm sorry dog owners

md99

Lorax wrote:

Well the way I saw it, if he/she can afford to spend €70,000 on a car they can afford the repair.

you're damn right..... exactly what i woulda done. the cost of the repair wouldn't have meant jack to them, more than likely, and they WOULD have gladly taken your more scarce money to repair it..

Vikings

Would you have done the same if it was a 10 year old ford fiesta that somebody was struggling to keep on the road themselves? My guess is yes. There is no excuse for what you did, if you can't afford to be on the road then don't be. Do the rest of us a favour.

SouperComputer

Well the way I saw it, if he/she can afford to spend €70,000 on a car they can afford the repair.

So prettymuch the same excuse as scumbag joyriders so.

Nice.

Mezcita

md99 wrote:

you're damn right..... exactly what i woulda done. the cost of the repair wouldn't have meant jack to them, more than likely, and they WOULD have gladly taken your more scarce money to repair it..

So therefore all sh.it learner drivers should be allowed crash into whoever they like and then tootle off happily?

Oh and its ok, because all learners drive knackered cars so therefore they must be skint.

Learn to drive properly and grow up OP.

DonJose

Lorax, you never cease to amaze me. Whatever happened with your summons?

Lorax

DonJose wrote:

Lorax, you never cease to amaze me. Whatever happened with your summons?

Thats another completely unrelated matter, its in a few weeks and I have a good solicitor who advised me not to talk about the case openly due to the nature of it.. so....

DonJose

Lorax wrote:

Thats another completely unrelated matter, its in a few weeks and I have a good solicitor who advised me not to talk about the case openly due to the nature of it.. so....

Was it anything to do with the 0-60 phone camera thingy, were you done over that?

Lorax

¬_¬

Ill tell ya in August

Mezcita

From Lorax:
"Tonight I pulled in to the hard shoulder on the n3 where the limit is 100km/h to try something ( my friend was recording my speedometer with my camera phone ) anyway, was just testing the 0-60mph on my car.. so pulled out and started revving, got to 60mph in 2nd gear and only went slightly over the limit maybe, 102km/h or smething.. then slowed back to about 80-90km/h and and put it into proper gear 4th/5th.. anyway the Gardai traffic corps jeep pulled me in not long after and start saying "what the hell do you think you were doing", etc etc, I said I just pulled in to wipe the condensation off my windscreen but dont think he bought it... checked my discs (everything was in date and fine) then looked at my license and wrote something in his notepad. Handed me back my license and walked back to his own car. Jus wondering what laws exactly did I break?"

Care to tell us where your case is due to be heard? Am sure a few BMW drivers would be happy to forward that on as an example of your perception of safe driving.

Lorax

Its nothing to do with that you tard.

Mezcita

You're the one who can't drive properly buddy.

Best of luck in your attempt at doing 180 in a fiesta with six pints on you and four mates in the back seat.

wet-paint

Jeez, I know I'd ban the OP if this was posted on my board, that's a bloody awful attitude to have. What I would post here would be censored, but you have a LOT of growing up to do OP. I'm in exactly the same boat as you, driving a 10 yr old Festy, and if I dinged a porsche or a banger in worse shape than mine, I'd leave a note. Calling you a scumbag only insults decent hardworking scumbags.
[edit]Possible troll? If so, well done, you got me good.

oleras

Lorax wrote:

Last summer when I start driving, I was trying to fit into a tight car space in the car park of a certain shopping centre. I was still learning to drive and wasnt used to these things, anyway I accidently crushed the back bumper of a 06 bmw 5 series, it also smashed his brake/rear light. Then I looked around, nobody there?, And drove off. So if youre reading this bmw driver, Im sorry!

Anyway, anyone have similar hit-n-run stories? Come on we hav all done it

TWAT

Lorax

Good man, reported for personal abuse.

You break it you should pay for it. It doesnt matter how well off the bmw driver is, you are in the wrong and you have no excuse.

oleras

Lorax wrote:

Good man, reported for personal abuse.

Could not give 2 sh1ts, your still a TWAT

WhiteWashMan

Lorax wrote:

Its nothing to do with that you tard.

banned for personal abuse, not to mention the staggering amount of reported posts ive had about you.
you want to be a big man and chat about your heroic illegal activities, then do it somewhere else please.
PM me in a month for re-admittance.

WhiteWashMan

oleras wrote:

Could not give 2 sh1ts, your still a TWAT

i can forgive you once for a calling an idiot and idiot, but twice is just taking the mickey.
banned for 2 weeks for personal abuse. pm me when youre time is up.

Gregor Samsa

Lorax wrote:

Well the way I saw it, if he/she can afford to spend €70,000 on a car they can afford the repair.

What a staggeringly pathetic attitude. This is the same justification that scumbags who mug people use. Basically you robbed this person of the price of the repair.

Just wait until you've grown up and start using your hard earned money to buy the things you want. Then see if you have the same attitude when some idiot smashes it up on you.

golden

Dosn't really matter what type of car it was that was only an incidental. Put the ball in your court if it happened to you how would you like it if someone crashed into your car and drive away.

Victor Meldrew

phutyle wrote:

What a staggeringly pathetic attitude. This is the same justification that scumbags who mug people use. Basically you robbed this person of the price of the repair.

Just wait until you've grown up and start using your hard earned money to buy the things you want. Then see if you have the same attitude when some idiot smashes it up on you.

Spot on. On a general note, bad, reckless behaviour when young is a regrettable fact of life, one thing if the perpetrator knows it was wrong and displays remorse and shame. No remorse and repeated behaviour like this and you have behaviour bordering on the sociopathic (sic). I'd really worry about being near the op's world.

KTRIC

Yep, basically the OP just robbed the BMW driver of 6k !!! and got away with it.

How does he know the BMW driver can afford it, maybe he had to really save a lot to buy his / her car and it costs a fortune to keep on the road anyway.

ats

Lorax wrote:

Then I looked around, nobody there?, And drove off. So if youre reading this bmw driver,

Can't wait for the day Karma catches up and bites his ass. It doesn't matter a damn what type of car it was. Yeah it could have messed your insurance, but guess what it could have messed this guys too. maybe he was driving a rental and now has to pay them over the odds for repair. Or maybe he was a decent bloke and allowed you to pay it in cash and replaced the parts (if it was superficial damage) and kept the insurance out of it.

KTRIC wrote:

Yep, basically the OP just robbed the BMW driver of 6k !!! and got away with it.

How does he know the BMW driver can afford it, maybe he had to really save a lot to buy his / her car and it costs a fortune to keep on the road anyway.

yeah could have been this guys dream car, maybe his dear old dad died and he bought it with the inheritance,



I know when i was learning I was crossing lanes in traffic, the lane i was in was stopped and i clipped the guy in front. My fault I was impatient. Anyway after much screaming on his part and me apologizing and offering to repair the damage we settled on the street. €50 cash for him and that was the end of it. yeah €50 was a lot of cash but he could have started screaming about all sorts and the bumper was only damaged slightly so i felt that was the best solution.

My father in law was hit by a L driver and all she did was damage his reg light, couple of € to fix she was in floods of tears over it he just sent her on her way picked up the park in a breakers and sorted it no harm done.

but fecking off when no one is looking, I've had someone do that to me twice, first time brand new set of Lexus lights on the car (i know i deserved it but i was young) €240 gone like that and the swine fecked off. Second time different car same thing was in a car park and some good not only damaged the rear light but also damaged the panel and fecked off and it was a clapped out fiesta

Henry Ford III

Oh dear. OP has shown a fundamantal lack of respect and judgement for other peoples goods. A really bad attitude.

I'm almost inclined to wish him no luck in his upcoming court case.

Imagine if he'd been the BMW driver and someone had broken his light and then given it legs?

Tony Danza

md99 wrote:

you're damn right..... exactly what i woulda done. the cost of the repair wouldn't have meant jack to them, more than likely, and they WOULD have gladly taken your more scarce money to repair it..

Of course he would have gladly taken his money, it was Lorax's responsibility to pay for it, not to pass that on to the owner.

This attitude is pathetic, that's the equivalent of me damaging somebody's property by accident, and then running away, because I don't own a house, therefore they're richer than me.

Rovi

I wonder what the OP's accompanying fully licenced driver was doing during all this? Surely they would've quickly spotted the learner's lack of experience and ability at parking in tight spots and would have assisted by instructing them through the manoeuvre?

:rolleyes:

Mitch Connor

they were probably to busy, timing how quickly he could do it.

Wossack

geez, another infuriating lorax post...


I have nothing nice to say about this in the slightest

Victor_M

Lorax wrote:

Last summer when I start driving, I was trying to fit into a tight car space in the car park of a certain shopping centre. I was still learning to drive and wasnt used to these things, anyway I accidently crushed the back bumper of a 06 bmw 5 series, it also smashed his brake/rear light. Then I looked around, nobody there?, And drove off. So if youre reading this bmw driver, Im sorry!

Anyway, anyone have similar hit-n-run stories? Come on we hav all done it

Some scumbag did this to my car last year cost me 2K to fix, Lorax' attitude seems to be fairly commonplace. There was a pile of broken indicator lens on the ground from a sh!t box micra and my car, I went through it and was able to get enough fragments to work out the make and model of the car as well as the colour due to the knacker leaving half of his paint on my car.
I went back to that carpark every evening for 2 weeks to try and catch the driver.
Never did unfortunately, would have had him charged if I caught him.

Scumbag

prospect

My boss has a €100K plus Merc.

I ocassionally am sent out in it to do errands for him. If someone hit it and did damage while I had it out, then I would feel crap about it.

Who said that the person driving the BMW was the person who could afford it. I know I certainly could not afford a car like that, but ocassionaly get to drive them.

Damaging a car and not admitting it is vandalism.

seamus

Lorax wrote:

Well the way I saw it, if he/she can afford to spend €70,000 on a car they can afford the repair. I was a student at the time and hadnt got 2 cents to rub together and wasnt losing my no claims a week after getting my 1st insurance policy.

That's the most retarded argument I've ever heard. If you can afford to pay insurance, then you can afford to let your insurance handle it. By that logic, anybody should be allowed to steal or destroy anyone else's property, because if you can afford to buy it, you can afford to replace it, right? :rolleyes:

On-topic, yes I have done this, but karma got me. In fact, Karma got me before I even did it, because Karma knew I was going to do it. I very very slightly rubbed off the rear bumper of a car as I pulled into the space. I parked and looked at the other car. There was a tiny scratch on a black plastic bumper. No more than a small stone would do. So not worth owning up to, I reckoned. Then I looked at my own car. The entire front wing under the headlight was pushed in, in a fairly smooth oval-shaped dent. It's still like that today.

Karma's a bitch.

BrianD3

Good troll :rolleyes:

Now that the OP has been banned perhaps the thread can be a sensible discussion about car park hit and runs. I have witnessed a couple and unknown to the culprit left a note with their reg on the car they damaged. I'd hope that someone would do the same for me if they saw my car being hit.

jhegarty

seamus wrote:

That's the most retarded argument I've ever heard. If you can afford to pay insurance, then you can afford to let your insurance handle it. By that logic, anybody should be allowed to steal or destroy anyone else's property, because if you can afford to buy it, you can afford to replace it, right? :rolleyes:

I think we can infer from the post he didn't have insurance.... otherwise the money wouldn't have been coming out of his pocket....


anyone who did what the op did is a scumbag..... i would hope a court would throw the book at them.....

barryfitz

Lorax wrote:

Good man, reported for personal abuse.

Did you not just call someone a tard!!

unkel

Lorax wrote:

reported for personal abuse.

No you didn't.

Mitch Connor

jhegarty wrote:

I think we can infer from the post he didn't have insurance.... otherwise the money wouldn't have been coming out of his pocket....


anyone who did what the op did is a scumbag..... i would hope a court would throw the book at them.....

one of his 'justifications' was he didn't want to claim after only having insurance for a week

jhegarty

Tauren wrote:

one of his 'justifications' was he didn't want to claim after only having insurance for a week

ah, didn't see his second post....

Stark

jhegarty wrote:

I think we can infer from the post he didn't have insurance.... otherwise the money wouldn't have been coming out of his pocket....

Very common in this country for people to choose to pay out of pocket instead of insurance for fear of their premiums soaring.

Scratched someone's paintwork with my wing mirror before when trying to navigate into a tight space. Left a note on their windscreen and stuff. Then spent the next few weeks worrying myself sick about how much it was going to cost me (was moving house around the same time so money was tight). When a few weeks passed I thought grand, it mustn't have cost that much so they just let it slide. Then I got a phone call saying "oh I'm just back from holiday etc." and thought "oh god no, it'll have rusted". She said she'd drop it into the garage and get back to me on the price, "I appreciate you leaving me the note" etc. Thankfully though, she never called back so I assume the damage wasn't worth the hassle of chasing after me for. Phew

I'm far more cautious these days.

JoeA3

Oh my god, is this guy for real? Surely its a piss-take?! It doesn't matter whether it was a 70K Beemer or a 15 year old Fiesta, the crime is the same.
Please lord, let me never park my pride and joy anywhere near this complete idiot... the worrying thing is, there's probably a few more out there with the same stinking attitude. Some people....

Linford

Someone bumped into my car in a car park once and someone I know witnessed it, there was nothing more than a few scratches. The person who bumped into me left a note with their details. Because they left the note I never bothered to persue the matter, however had they not left a note I would have gone to the Gardai etc...

If the OP was in a carpark I wouldn't be so sure that no-one saw him and sometimes it takes the Gardai a little while to follow up on these things...

franksm

Infuriating...

Some g*bs***e or g*bsheen rearended my Triumph in a shopping centre car-park a couple of years ago and did a runner. I was totally, absolutely gutted: http://mx5ireland.com/stag/hvv416n/DSC06500.JPG

I had the car up for sale at the time, so ended up losing a couple of thousand rather than have it go through the insurance. Still depressed thinking about it to this day - poor oul Stag.

Since I know how it feels, when I clipped a jeep with me nearside mirror one afternoon I went back to make amends with the owner or leave a note. He was there at the back of his jeep, and when he saw the red scratch from my mirror on the plastic trim over his wheel arch, he just said "ah, no probs, forget it". Sound bloke.

Anyway, I'm a firm believer in karma <insert evil cackle>

yop

afraid that this common place and a lot of it in carparks where people seem t lose the run of themselves!!
Thankfully it has never happened to me but IF I did it to someone I would with the best intentions leave them a note.

Enjoy your ban mate, I suspect it will not be your last.

Wossack

unlucky lorax! there was a security camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFiNXII6dU8

Fey!

I've clipped a couple of cars over the years, but have always stopped and left my number. Didn't hear from either owner afterward.

padi89

OP thats just wrong,it will come back and bite you in the ass someday.

bazz26

I think the OP is just baiting for a reaction. I think this thread should be closed to be honest.

EIN

Lorax wrote:

Last summer when I start driving, I was trying to fit into a tight car space in the car park of a certain shopping centre. I was still learning to drive and wasnt used to these things, anyway I accidently crushed the back bumper of a 06 bmw 5 series, it also smashed his brake/rear light. Then I looked around, nobody there?, And drove off. So if youre reading this bmw driver, Im sorry!

Anyway, anyone have similar hit-n-run stories? Come on we hav all done it

your post should be reported to the gardai.. remember your not anonymous in the internet my friend.. and it would be quite easy to track you down.

this sorta cowardly thing disgusts me... regardless of him/her having a 5 series or not, he/she is entitled to drive it on the road, without ********** like you damaging it and driving off...