Inconsiderates who bang their doors into you

wandererz

Was sitting in the Sandymount car park having lunch a few weeks ago watching the view out to the ocean when some college student drives up in a beat-up Golf, parks less than half a meter next to me and then proceeds to open her door into my car.

There were 5 or six other spaces next to me yet she decides to park there leaving no room to get out properly.

She just turns around and walks across the road without so much as an apology. Gave her an earfull when she returned shortly thereafter.

Then last week, was sitting in Heuston Station car park and some woman in a 98 Corolla drives up next to me, bangs her door into my car and walks off! WTF!!

Let me start of by shaming these idiots. Here's Corrolla womans car...

hoodrats

:eek:

wandererz wrote: »

Was sitting in the Sandymount car park having lunch a few weeks ago watching the view out to the ocean when some college student drives up in a beat-up Golf, parks less than half a meter next to me and then proceeds to open her door into my car.

There were 5 or six other spaces next to me yet she decides to park there leaving no room to get out properly.

She just turns around and walks across the road without so much as an apology. Gave her an earfull when she returned shortly thereafter.

Then last week, was sitting in Heuston Station car park and some woman in a 98 Corolla drives up next to me, bangs her door into my car and walks off! WTF!!

let me guess , yours is the car on the left.:P:cool:


Let me start of by shaming these idiots. Here's Corrolla womans car...

anniehoo

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

Was your damage bad OP?

wandererz

No, was on the right. Moved my car out off there in case she did it again when she returned.

As you can see there was sufficient distance to the line on the next space for her to get out without slamming her door into mine.

anniehoo

Was there any damage?You're naming and shaming here but i dont see any dents/paint cracks etc..

wandererz

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

Was your damage bad OP?

Yep. Stuff happens. But the least you do is apologise to the person sitting in the car you just slammed into rather than walking off.

As to damage...yet another bit of paint scratched off.

anniehoo

wandererz wrote: »

slamming her door into mine.

wandererz wrote: »

you just slammed into rather than walking

Thats a lot of "slamming"!

wrote:

yet another bit of paint scratched off.

If someone "slammed" into my car door and scratched paint off it while i was there....Guards would be called and insurance details swapped.

Alanstrainor

I'm not exactly happy with the naming and shaming situation here. So i've removed the picture.

Stinicker

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I'm not exactly happy with the naming and shaming situation here. So i've removed the picture.

What's the difference between it and the obnoxious parking thread? Same thing similar situation.

Alanstrainor

Stinicker wrote: »

What's the difference between it and the obnoxious parking thread? Same thing similar situation.

Obnoxious parking shows the cars in the act. This was just a picture of a car. I don't think that's particularly fair tbh.

Hal1

I out of habbit hold the edge of my door when opening in close proximty to another car. I have had the misfortune of clowns opening their door onto mine though.

Eleganza

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

No, we haven't all done it. Slamming a door open on someone else's car is never acceptable and is not par for the course but you seem to think it is normal behaviour so you are not somebody I care to know.
My 6 month old car here in Germany hasn't picked up a single ding and dent even though I must park predominantly in multi-storey car parks. From my experience of Ireland I would have expected it to have picked up half a dozen by now.
I look at ten year old cars here and their flanks have none of the dings and dents one would expect to see on a ten year old Irish car.
Many Irish people just don't know how to treat other peoples' property with respect and you would be one of their number. Shame on you.

The Big Red Button

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

I most certainly have never done it, because I am very careful not to do it any time I get out of a car, because I respect other peoples property.

Other people have done it to me a few times alright. :mad: Arseholes.

AugustusMinimus

Some woman slammed her driver door into my car while I was sitting in it a few weeks. It was clear to me that she prob did it all the time.

In a fit of rage, I told her she was a stupid obese b***h. And it was true, she was borderline obese.



And just to admit, I did this before. However, it was a massive gust of wind which caught my driver door and I called to my neighbour later that day to apologise and to say that I'd pay for any resulting damage to the bodywork.

PaulKK

I totally agree OP.
I am always careful where I park, yet I had a couple of small marks from car doors.
In fact, the 3 cars at my house have some mark or another from car parks, and each car is well cared for and cautiously parked.

I was in a petrol station a few months ago filling up, a woman pulled up beside me in some crap heap and left about half a meter for herself to get out. I kept an eye on her door, and as she was getting out she noticed me watching and pulled a serious face. Obviously thought I was going to kill her by the look I was giving her!

Daved_XB

I am SO with the OP on this..... this is one of my biggest pet peeves.. come the revolution when I'm in charge these people will be locked up!! :mad:

If I'm in a carpark & there is a great spot close to the door but I don't feel there is enough room for me to part & get my door open without hitting the car already there then I move on to another space.. to me this gross negligence is only a few steps down from keying someones car.

The rear drivers door of my car is destroyed with little dents & paint chips from muppets in carparks who have no respect... I too once was in my car when a woman opened her door into my car hard enough to rock my car... I looked at her in shock & she in turn looked at me as though I'd somehow slid my car into her open door!! & not even so much as a sorry :mad:

To be honest I can quiet understand why so many people park badly across 2 bays... I often think of doing this myself to protect my car from these sort of people

_Nuno_

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

Speak for yourself.

I've never done it, and it doesn't take much effort to consciously and carefully open a door.

Not all people have the necessary intelligence, coordination and concentration skills though.

It also happened to me recently, and it was the passenger of the car which happened to live in the UK, and made a very small dent in a body line in my 1 year old car.

WestWing

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

We don't all do it. The reason, we're not all pr*cks.

_Conrad_

Well i have a battered crappy old VW to drive around every day so that i don't have to care about stuff like that, can rub it against a hedge, don't have to worry about stone chips etc.
If i'm not driving that though i'd be bothered by someone banging their door off a "better" car, but unless it was serious damage, in my view it'd be more trouble than it was worth trying to get their insurance to pay for it and I really couldn't be bothered getting my blood pressure up over it and going through all that hassle. If it's genuinely an accident and they were visibly unhappy with their own action and apologised i'd forgive them and let it go.

I had an odd incident yesterday though where someone in a carpark reversed quite quickly into my parked car, breaking a nice hole in their rear bumper with my towbar then got out and started shouting, claiming that they "couldn't see it because it's a dark coloured car and that towbar is dangerous". My car was parked properly, in a parking space and it was in broad daylight while i was standing at the door of the car locking it.
My car was completely unharmed so i told them to calm down and learn how to recognize grey cars and walked away.

pajo1981

_Conrad_ wrote: »

I had an odd incident yesterday though where someone in a carpark reversed quite quickly into my parked car, breaking a nice hole in their rear bumper with my towbar then got out and started shouting, claiming that they "couldn't see it because it's a dark coloured car and that towbar is dangerous". My car was parked properly, in a parking space and it was in broad daylight while i was standing at the door of the car locking it.
My car was completely unharmed so i told them to calm down and learn how to recognize grey cars and walked away.

Haha. Towbars are great like that. Had a fella drive into the back of me once. Not a mark on my own car, but he almost ripped the entire bumper off his own.

dr.fuzzenstein

_Conrad_ wrote: »

I had an odd incident yesterday though where someone in a carpark reversed quite quickly into my parked car, breaking a nice hole in their rear bumper with my towbar then got out and started shouting, claiming that they "couldn't see it because it's a dark coloured car and that towbar is dangerous". My car was parked properly, in a parking space and it was in broad daylight while i was standing at the door of the car locking it.
My car was completely unharmed so i told them to calm down and learn how to recognize grey cars and walked away.

:eek: I can't believe the neck of some people!
That guy immediately realized his mistake, did some quick thinking and decided "If I just shout and wave my arms about, maybe I can intimidate that guy into accepting the blame for this".
Too bloody right you told him to push off.
And had you fallen for it, he would have had a sore neck too.
At least he did it all to himself, there is some justice in the world.
Have you still got his reg? You should send him a bill for a scratched tow-bar.:cool:

dharn

scratch.. you call that a scratch.. this is a scratch...

dr.fuzzenstein

I've posted this before, but it just fits in so nicely with this thread:

_Conrad_

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Have you still got his reg? You should send him a bill for a scratched tow-bar.:cool:

It actually slightly bent the bracket for the trailer lights socket beside it, but i bent it back . I really couldn't be bothered complaining about a "scratched towbar" though even for a joke as i already have the satisfaction of knowing that replacing and spraying the bumper on that car will cost more than i paid for the old passat.

As for intimidating/confusing me into thinking it was my fault, they'd be a fair while trying to do that. There are very few people i could meet in daily life that i'd have any fear of and i'm very stubborn, so they'd be barkin up the wrong tree.

I was once again perplexed by the monumental stupidity and weirdness of some people though. MAybe this will be a new thing? crash into someone's parked car or walk into someone who's not moving and try to blame them....

conzy

If I have to park close enough to another car that I could hit it with the door I place my hand between the two cars and open the door fully against the other car(with my hand between the two) then you can just squeeze out and no damage is done.

I cant understand people that bang doors and don't say sorry.. They're probably the same people that don't say sorry if they walk in front of you in a supermarket etc

Bumpstop

I hate people banging their doors into my car, and I am very carefull not to hit other peoples car with my doors.

However what amazes me and it happened recently, I was heading to a a huge shopping centre one Sunday morning. There are no cars in the car park.

I parked away from all the doors and shops in an out of the way part of the car park. There are at least 25 billion parking spaces over 5 million acres of concrete.

Yet on my return there is a Toyota Starlet jammed up along side my car. What is with these people are their cars magnetic ???? Is it herd mentality Like WTF.

ArphaRima

I had a brand new car a few years ago. An obviously shiny new one at that, parked far from anyone else in a very inconvenient location flanked by a kerb on one side. I come back to the car to see an SUV with 1 door resting on my car with kids jumping around inside and witness another being slammed against it by the mother.

My face must have read pure unadulterated murder. The thought did cross my mind.

The mother turned to her kids and said "ooh the man with the fancy car isnt happy". I closed her front passenger door so I could get at my car, turned to her kids and said "children, let this be the day you learn that your mother is a ****ing cnt". I got in my car whilst the shellshocked witch glared at me and drove off.
Murder would have made me feel better, but it was a close run thing.

pcardin

Hal1 wrote: »

I out of habbit hold the edge of my door when opening in close proximty to another car. I have had the misfortune of clowns opening their door onto mine though.

I have the same habbit. And in most cases I try to park my far from others if car park is empty enough.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

These people drive me mad :mad: How ****ing hard is it to get in and out of your car while holding the door so it doesn't hit anybody elses car?!!?!?! :mad:
My last car was destroyed with tiny little dents from these retards, and it was a black car so it showed up even more :mad:

Wolverine_1999

anniehoo wrote: »

We've ALL done it...and you're a total liar if you say you havent banged your door off another and thought "shiiiit, ok...no dent, it'll be alright!"

Was your damage bad OP?

No we have not.. cheek

Arciphel

And this is why we can't have nice things (and why I drive to the shops in a '00 Micra) - because people are dicks.

MugMugs

This is my pet hate.

I park at the far end of the car park where there are NO cars to avoid it.

I was sitting in work in the basement one day when some lassy drives in her Focus. Decides to drive in to the space beside me. Drives into my car and runs her front bumper along my side. Then when she is in fully reverses back along the side of my car and straightens up. THEN her passenger whacks the door off mine.

I actually lost the plot. If it was'nt for the security guard I'd probably be unemployed !

Kintarō Hattori

I was with the missus recently in one of the airport carparks. It was in the early hours of the morning and we were waiting for the shuttle bus. A car drove past and proceeded to park within view of us. While the passenger was getting out she opened the door rather quickly and gave the car parked beside her a fair auld whack of her door. She just hopped out and made her way to the bus stop. She never looked to see if she did any damage (which I'm sure she must have done). It was a real eye opener.

If/when we come to buy a nicer car I'll recommend to the missus that she parks well away from other cars.

Ardennes1944

I noticed last week that there are two sizable enough dents under my wing mirror above trolley height, how they got there I still do not know, but some muppet managed it alright.

Jesus.

Was chilling with the seat down at the beach today when a woman parked up beside me and opened her back door slamming it into my car. She didn't attempt to apologise (maybe she didn't see me there?). She left a 3 inch scrape on my side.

The scratch doesn't bother me cos I drive a banger (one of the reasons I drive an old car!) but if it was a newish car I'd be annoyed. The least someone should do is say sorry if they make a mistake. I've a feeling she seen me in the car alright

pablo128

I have swung my (long) legs over and kicked my passenger door into cars beside me, in front of their owners more than once after they whacked their doors off my car. Not once have they ever said anything to me. An eye for an eye. Fcuk 'em.

The Ging and I

I was sitting in my company van (company name all over it) at a supermarket when a mercedes pulls in beside me. An aulwan opens the door giving my van a good whack and as she starts to walk away cops me giving her daggers for looks.
If it had been the reverse senario I would bet she would have been demanding a respray. :mad:

_Tombstone_

anniehoo wrote: »

Thats a lot of "slamming"!



If someone "slammed" into my car door and scratched paint off it while i was there....Guards would be called and insurance details swapped.

And they'd tell you it's a civil matter and to fcuk off and stop wasting their time.

pablo128

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

And they'd tell you it's a civil matter and to fcuk off and stop wasting their time.

Your insurance company requires that you report any incidents to the police. They don't necessarily have to attend the scene.

Jesus.

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

And they'd tell you it's a civil matter and to fcuk off and stop wasting their time.

Calling the Guards is silly talk alright.

Pablo, the only problem with your remedy is that you'd probably damage your own door too!

dr.fuzzenstein

Jesus. wrote: »

Calling the Guards is silly talk alright.

Pablo, the only problem with your remedy is that you'd probably damage your own door too!

Well, there are three possible courses of action if someone bangs their door into your car.

1: Ignore it and say nothing
2: Go over to the person and tell them they've damaged your car, you will be getting the damage repaired and they can either pay up or let their insurance sort it out. The Gards may have to be called to at least record the incident. Because otherwise you're leaving yourself open to them denying it afterwards anyway. You cannot trust a single fcuker out there.
3: Tell 'em it's coats of guv'ner and be prepared for a right good thrashing for damaging your vehicle. That's how that was done in the good old days! May require medical attention if other guy is much bigger than originally thought.

Anything else is pointless. And option three is mostly pointless. There is option 4ish, where you piss and moan at them for damaging your car, but they will most likely ignore you and walk away or move on to option 3.

akura

My poor car's doors are like golf balls

dr.fuzzenstein

akura wrote: »

My poor car's doors are like golf balls

That's more Aerodynamic! You're saving money, which can only be a good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5SlwNf4K0

_Tombstone_

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

2: Go over to the person and tell them they've damaged your car, you will be getting the damage repaired and they can either pay up or let their insurance sort it out. The Gards may have to be called to at least record the incident. Because otherwise you're leaving yourself open to them denying it afterwards anyway. You cannot trust a single fcuker out there.

Nope, I saw part of a Bump accident awhile back, seemed a woman rolled back into the Car behind in Traffic, towbar on her car put a whole in the Front Bumper of Car behind, Male driver. I didn't see this but got the gist from what followed.

They pulled in near me, she got out and apologised, said she'd pay or whatever, she didn't know what to do as nothing like this had ever happened to her before, he was like OK, grand. Conversation went on like that for abit.

Then she got on to her phone for awhile and came out with this blinder "I didn't roll back, you hit me"

The other guy shook his head and got out the phone to call the guards.

Guards rocked up after awhile, Man and a Woman guard. I'm gonna call the male guard Al Pacino cuz of his acting, he gets outta the Car and spreads his arms wide, bends the knees abit and starts saying who's hurt while looking around him.

The lad in the Car tells him what happened and guard says pretty much shouts along the lines of, "what do you want me to do about it, that's a civil matter, sort it out yourself, Im sick to death of your type wasting my time."

Real ignoramus of a Guard. It went on for another bit then they pissed off for a burger or something.



Seems to me unless you have video/witness or something you could probably get away with stopping in traffic, take a sledge hammer outta the boot, have your wicked way with someones car and get away with it by saying it was a big mutant hailstone.



I really hope their is sucha a thing as Karma and that woman gets hers though.

wandererz

Here we are 4 years later.

2 weeks ago I drove my wife to work. Stopped at the Spar in Ballymount while she went in for some coffees.

Parked so there were 3 spaces on either side.
This person drives up in a silver Renault or Open coupe. Decides to reverse park really badly, at an angle so there's very little space between the front of her vehicle and the rear of mine. Went forward and back twice but still managed to mess it up.

Then opens her door into my car and proceeds to walk off.

I walked into the Spar shop, she was in line behind my wife, and informed her that the next time she decides to damage someone else's property that she should at least have the temerity to apologise considering the person was sitting right there.

Even an apologetic raised hand would have sufficed - accidents do happen. But she simply walked off instead.

She retorts that it wasn't her door, that it was her ring instead. So apparently that was OK.

Last time I checked, diamond was one of the hardest substances on the planet. If it can cut glass, what's a few mm's of paint.

It's not the fact that she or the other person damaged my property that ticks me off, but rather the total inconsideration shown. Ignore it, walk off and hope it will be OK.

I'm sorry, but my car is/was a 55k+ euro vehicle which is now 9 years old with only 27K miles on the clock. It would be in pristine condition except for the car park dents and scratches. In another 9 years time, it could be approaching near classic status and still have under 100k miles. A great vehicle for the next owner.

But how would this be possible considering the inconsiderates who are allowed to get behind the wheel these days.

myshirt

I'm shocked with the amount of you who are most put out by the lack of raised arms of apologies, rather than anything else. My god. I would absolutely break someones face if they blatantly hit my car and strolled off nonchalantly. No way could I handle that, blood boiling stuff.

Kevin McCloud

I bang my door back as hard as i can if its the work jeep.

wandererz

On another occasion, I was parked in Dunnes Cornelscourt multistorey.

Loads of spaces available. It decided to to park near a pillar. Two spots, one was smaller because of the pillar. I decided to straddle the spaces so nobody would be silly enough to park in the smaller spot but instead go to one of the dozens/hundreds of other spots. There was method to my madness.

This guy turns up in his *issan sh*tty and proceeds to squeeze it into the space. Bearing in mind again that there are loads of other visible spaces close by.

Then I hear him complaining to his wife about people who use double spaces!

Now, I don't normally myself. But one understands why people do.

Unfortunately that reason doesn't seem to register on other people's minds. I was just inconveniencing them by forcing them to move a few meters away.

They persevered nevertheless.

doolox

In the public space jealousy and carelessness abounds. People with older cars are jealous of people with new cars and ,short of actually crashing into newer cars, will not take the extra care needed to avoid hitting them with their car doors while getting into or out of their own cars.

In the public space do not expect people to have respect or look after your property. If you are the owner of a 151 car you will be seen by most poorer people as a pampered overpaid person undeserving of any empathy or support in this world.

This is why most REALLY rich people park in supervised carparks in spaces at the end of wide rows and are usually on first name terms with the attendants and have access to cameras which can record any **** that goes on while they are away from their cars.

Me personally I would not park anything younger than 5 yr old in a public car park or in town on the risk that some scumbag will nail it or scratch it out of pure spite and jealousy.

Gavman84

Boils my blood I have several dings needing removal soon on my car from such clowns. They have no respect for people property or cop on

CiniO

My pet hate as well.
Filmed last month. She parks at the beginning of the film, but it's from 1:00 when the action starts.
And it doesn't even looks she has a far ar$e to justify her ignorance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvH1CJdt07U