Someone ran in to my parked car

dantastic

And scratched up the bumper pretty bad.

The car was parked in a gated car park with key code access given to the companies that share the office space.

So someone I work with did this and drove off. I'm absolutely livid. I'm out every 30 minutes now looking for a car with matching damage.

Can I do anything at all?

djimi

Any CCTV covering the car park?

hallo dare

dantastic wrote: »

And scratched up the bumper pretty bad.

The car was parked in a gated car park with key code access given to the companies that share the office space.

So someone I work with did this and drove off. I'm absolutely livid. I'm out every 30 minutes now looking for a car with matching damage.

Can I do anything at all?

Cctv?

ElKavo

dantastic wrote: »

And scratched up the bumper pretty bad.

The car was parked in a gated car park with key code access given to the companies that share the office space.

So someone I work with did this and drove off. I'm absolutely livid. I'm out every 30 minutes now looking for a car with matching damage.

Can I do anything at all?

cctv on the building is your best bet. Have a chat with security.


Edit: every one says the same thing at the same time!!

Anan1

Is there paint from the other car left on your car?

bumper234

hallo dare wrote: »

Cctv?

Closed Circuit TeleVision

security cameras

Connavar

Any cameras in operation that might have recorded the incident?

Anan1

bumper234 wrote: »

Closed Circuit TeleVision

security cameras

I think he might know what CCTV is..

bumper234

Anan1 wrote: »

I think he might know what CCTV is..

Yeah

hallo dare wrote: »

Cctv?

:rolleyes:

Anan1

bumper234 wrote: »

Yeah



:rolleyes:

Hallo dare was asking whether there might be CCTV footage, not what CCTV is. If you're going to be smart, be sure to be right.

hallo dare

bumper234 wrote: »

Closed Circuit TeleVision

security cameras

Haha, i know what it means, i was simply asking cctv. Haha

bumper234

Anan1 wrote: »

Hallo dare was asking whether there might be CCTV footage, not what CCTV is. If you're going to be smart, be sure to be right.

Not a mind reader, Also i just remembered who you are so i will ignore the rest of your posts.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

bumper234 wrote: »

Not a mind reader, Also i just remembered who you are so i will ignore the rest of your posts.

CCTV?

timmy4u2

dantastic wrote: »

And scratched up the bumper pretty bad.

The car was parked in a gated car park with key code access given to the companies that share the office space.

So someone I work with did this and drove off. I'm absolutely livid. I'm out every 30 minutes now looking for a car with matching damage.

Can I do anything at all?

If a colleague did that to me I would install my own CCTV? or a dash cam until I caught him.
Have you asked in the office? Put up a note.
Dialogue can work wonders. It has even prevented wars.

Wossack

cctv?

dantastic

Checking with the management company if the spot is covered by CCTV.
As far as I know only the entrance is covered and I know it happened some time before lunch so that's no good.

As far a I can make out there is no paint left from the other car on my car. Might have been an unpainted bumper. The mark is about 12cm high.

timmy4u2

Wossack wrote: »

cctv?

Its a camera using closed circuit:D:)

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Wossack wrote: »

cctv?

Closed circuit television don't you know.

timmy4u2

dantastic wrote: »

Checking with the management company if the spot is covered by CCTV.
As far as I know only the entrance is covered and I know it happened some time before lunch so that's no good.

As far a I can make out there is no paint left from the other car on my car. Might have been an unpainted bumper. The mark is about 12cm high.

That should be good. You have an idea of the time so check all the vehicles that are shown in motion at the critical time.
Of course if they pull the old data protection act you will have to go through a longer procedure

dantastic

The CCTV covering the entrance is not working.
The CCTV covering the parking lot was owned by another company who moved out so that has been disconnected.

So there is no CCTV at all. Nice one >:-(

SleeperService

dantastic wrote: »

The CCTV covering the entrance is not working.
The CCTV covering the parking lot was owned by another company who moved out so that has been disconnected.

So there is no CCTV at all. Nice one >:-(

Can't Catch The Villain?

Anyway, aside from the unexpected thread hilarity, sorry to hear about damage. Sounds like a limited number of suspects so looking for corresponding damage on another car is yourr only option. Even at that, dunno what you can do if they deny it completely. Depending onn workplace politics you may have to leave it go

Caliden

You could post a bluff on your notice board with something along the lines of:

"Car recently damaged by a colleague, cctv has captured the incident and car reg. As you are a colleague, I would like to fix without going through your insurance. You can contact me on xxx-xxxxxxx before Friday."

MugMugs

dantastic wrote: »

Can I do anything at all?

Kick up a stink in work and see if there's anything on the CCTV system of it happening. If there is go to the Gardai. Edit : Just saw thats no longer an option



Short of that however if you are insured comprehensively then you can claim via your own policy whilst paying an excess for the damage sustained. You will have a claim against you and probably lose your NCB.

cml387

Caliden wrote: »

You could post a bluff on your notice board with something along the lines of:

"Car recently damaged by a colleague, cctv has captured the incident and car reg. As you are a colleague, I would like to fix without going through your insurance. You can contact me on xxx-xxxxxxx before Friday."

I like that idea.;)

JustAddWater

timmy4u2 wrote: »

If a colleague did that to me I would install my own CCTV? or a dash cam until I caught him.
Have you asked in the office? Put up a note.
Dialogue can work wonders. It has even prevented wars.

How can you install CCTV or a dashcam after the fact and catch someone?

Cleveland Hot Pocket

JustAddWater wrote: »

How can you install CCTV or a dashcam after the fact and catch someone?

Well you would need a closed circuit.
And a television.

And a DeLorean.

biko

Anyone with a real suggestion for OP, please post
Anyone without a real suggestion for OP, don't post.

Why do I even have to show up to say thing like this?

draiochtanois

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Caliden

Caliden wrote: »

You could post a bluff on your notice board with something along the lines of:

"Car recently damaged by a colleague, cctv has captured the incident and car reg. As you are a colleague, I would like to fix without going through your insurance. You can contact me on xxx-xxxxxxx before Friday."

This is a brilliant idea

intellectual dosser

Caliden wrote: »

You could post a bluff on your notice board with something along the lines of:

"Car recently damaged by a colleague, cctv has captured the incident and car reg. As you are a colleague, I would like to fix without going through your insurance. You can contact me on xxx-xxxxxxx before Friday."

I don't think this would be the best idea.

If you know who it is, then you'd be expected to contact that person direct without getting the whole office gabbing about the incident.

If the people you work with are half decent then I'd expect the person responsible to own up at some stage - how long has it been since you noticed OP?

MarkR

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dantastic

intellectual dosser wrote: »

I don't think this would be the best idea.

If you know who it is, then you'd be expected to contact that person direct without getting the whole office gabbing about the incident.

If the people you work with are half decent then I'd expect the person responsible to own up at some stage - how long has it been since you noticed OP?

We have been out measuring the angles and been looking at how this could have happened and we are pretty certain we have figured out exactly where the other car was parked. So I'm going to shoot out an email asking people who was parked in that spot. I'll catch the fecker.

A colleague noticed the damage as he was going out for lunch yesterday. I didn't notice until home time.

sausagehead

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ION08

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Cleveland Hot Pocket

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reach for the stars

Fix it and move on . How do you know it wasnt someone doing deliveries or servicing equipment in the building, I used to park in carparks like these a lot carrying out services in buildings.The majority of your workmates who have to be innocent will soon get fed up of been under your suspicion and the ensuing witchhunt.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

reach for the stars wrote: »

Fix it and move on . How do you know it wasnt someone doing deliveries or servicing equipment in the building, I used to park in carparks like these a lot carrying out services in buildings.The majority of your workmates who have to be innocent will soon get fed up of been under your suspicion and the ensuing witchhunt.

That level of mediocrity is hardly becoming of reaching for the stars now is it?

zarquon

How many cars does the car park hold? If a small number it should be easy to investigate other regular cars for damage, but even if you find the car you will have no way of legally proving they did the damage to you! The best you can hope for is to find another car with damage and be satisfied that you have the culprit but at the end of the day you cannot prove anything so you will need to pay up yourself

dantastic

reach for the stars wrote: »

Fix it and move on . How do you know it wasnt someone doing deliveries or servicing equipment in the building, I used to park in carparks like these a lot carrying out services in buildings.The majority of your workmates who have to be innocent will soon get fed up of been under your suspicion and the ensuing witchhunt.

I think that is pretty poor advise. It's probably what went through the head of the person who did it.

Access is pretty restricted so this wasn't some blow in. The witch hunt shall carry on until I catch the fecker. At this point I would not accept cash, I want this to go through insurance and I'm really hoping I can get a prosecution out of it too.

I want to draw blood!

sausagehead

reach for the stars wrote: »

Fix it and move on . How do you know it wasnt someone doing deliveries or servicing equipment in the building, I used to park in carparks like these a lot carrying out services in buildings.The majority of your workmates who have to be innocent will soon get fed up of been under your suspicion and the ensuing witchhunt.

here's your man! reach for the stars where were you at?

Francie Barrett

Just get it fixed and move on.

timmy4u2

JustAddWater wrote: »

How can you install CCTV or a dashcam after the fact and catch someone?

If you read the posts you will see that the op was visiting the carpark every 30 mins. It would alleviate that. Also at the time the belief was that CCTV footage was available so the culprit would be copped returning.
Having said all of that the criminal always visits the scene of the crime....and if there is a space beside you and a car comes in, ignores it and parks as far away from you as possible, thats your man....or wonan:cool:

reach for the stars

sausagehead wrote: »

here's your man! reach for the stars where were you at?

Ha ha no chance .Reach for the stars would have owned up. I think it will be a futile effort to find the culprit though.

dantastic

reach for the stars wrote: »

Ha ha no chance .Reach for the stars would have owned up. I think it will be a futile effort to find the culprit though.

Might not be that futile. This has really angered quite a lot of people here. There is an expectation here that one should own up to something like this.

cnoc

dantastic wrote: »

Might not be that futile. This has really angered quite a lot of people here. There is an expectation here that one should own up to something like this.

Are you 100% certain that your car was damaged in this car park?

dantastic

cnoc wrote: »

Are you 100% certain that your car was damaged in this car park?

Yes, 100%

DellyBelly

Same thing happened me and fortunately we had CCTV in our office. It was actually a delivery guy who did it and drove up on the hope he got away with it....have you checked the CCTV?

12 element

DellyBelly wrote: »

Same thing happened me and fortunately we had CCTV in our office. It was actually a delivery guy who did it and drove up on the hope he got away with it....have you checked the CCTV?

:rolleyes:

biko

A number of chat/off-topic removed.
I apologise if your post was one of them but we need to keep a better signal to noise ratio.

kodute

biko wrote: »

A number of chat/off-topic removed.
I apologise if your post was one of them but we need to keep a better signal to noise ratio.

SNR is an important measure of video quality in CCTV systems and typically measured in dB.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

kodute wrote: »

SNR is an important measure of video quality in CCTV systems and typically measured in dB.

DB is a common abbreviation for database.
Maybe there is a database of the CCTV that could be accessed?