my car got burnt out last night

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 01:00PM #1

My car was burnt to the ground by the some friendly local scum last night. im so upset, it hasnt seemed to register with me.

also i only have myself to blame, i shouldnt have parked it at a dart station anyway. and then i didnt end up drinking, so i couldve just driven anyway.

it was the best car, his name was Herb, he's been my life for the past three years. he had dancing rabbits on the dash and 2 year old tinsel stylishly entwining everything. he even had his own name on the dash, aka, the 'herb' sign things you stick into the soil beside your plant. plus E200 worth of CDs, a painting that took me two months to do, rosary beads from croatia that my late granny gave me.

i just got him a new handsfree set, which wasnt really working, but looked groovy so i left it there.

has this happend to anyone else?

im too upset to even type straight, can people please reassure me that its just 'stuff' and ill get over it.

it was so distressing when i found him, i kept thinking it couldnt be my car. i cant believe that people would be so MEAN to do this. they probably saw my pink feather boa's and pink rabbits and thought it would be funny.

a friend said they probably found they couldnt steal it (type of car i have is unrobbable) so they burnt it instead. not before they ripped my painting in half and left it sitting neatly on what remained of one of the seats. which makes me sick because they mustve come back after the fire brigade had been and put it there.

i feel sick and shaky, i cant believe im so upset of a car.

Jim · 22-08-2004 01:04PM

Resists to call people to arms and burn the nacks.
Really sorry Grape. Which Dart station was it?

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 01:07PM

sigh, it was in killiney dart station. killiney, of all places, ten minutes down from my house but oh no, i had to insist on driving down.

ballybrack scum.

eth0_ · 22-08-2004 01:18PM

:-( Chin up, silent grape!

luckat · 22-08-2004 01:32PM

Silent, I've been warned not to park my car at Killiney Dart station, but instead to park it in the hotel opposite; apparently it's a favourite target of jealous car destroyers.

Think of these people as pathetic, wanting types - they haven't got the get-up-and-go to earn themselves the money to buy a car, so they destroy those that others have worked hard to get. Particularly telling is the fact that they ripped up your painting.

The horrible thing is that you'll now always be looking over your shoulder; you'll probably never put an original CD in a car, but will always have copies instead; you'll always think about whether this is "a safe place to park" before leaving your car anywhere.

Why have we let our country become like this? Murders every day, car theft and vandalism and destruction and hate.

And how do people react? Usually with more hate: "I'll teach those little ***s a lesson" - which only increases the nastiness quotient.

I'm sick for you. But you'll get another car, other CDs. You'll get the money from the insurance to replace your car. You're able to make more paintings. You may not have the necklace your granny gave you, but the love she gave you is always there.

elivsvonchiaing · 22-08-2004 01:47PM

I'm sickened by this. Silent Grape don't give them their sick satisfaction. Tearing up the painting was probably meant to upset you - just don't let them - you have lost somethings most of which can be replaced... and those that can't you still have the good memories of your gran.

These sick ****ers probably don't have any good memories - and never knew love from anyone. But I don't expect you to pity them.

ferdi · 22-08-2004 02:04PM

****ing scum, they should all be shot. sorry to hear about your car man....

Agent Smith · 22-08-2004 05:26PM

"ballybrack scum."

you know what they say, even hitler had a mother....

po0k · 22-08-2004 05:31PM

I do believe SG is a chick.

MistressPandora · 22-08-2004 06:13PM

Sorry to hear about your car being burnt out. I'm from Ballybrack and I'll tell you one thing: Most of the ****ers in my area will either burn or steal anything that's not nailed down. Actually, if it's nailed down, the nails will also be stolen.
Although, in all fairness, Killiney train station is a lonely place, especially if it's at night, and the scumbags do love drinking and probably shooting up on the beach. And that's not being biased.

Oh, and I may be from Ballybrack, but by gods I wish I wasn't whenever I hear stories like that. My brother's friend was selling his motorbike, and this guy asked to meet him at Killiney train station, and claimed his wife and kids were on the beach. The stranger asked my brother's friend to turn on the ignition, then proceeded to punch the friend in the face, hopped on the bike and drove away.

So, a word of warning to all who drive, don't leave your car near Killiney Dart station.

JohnCleary · 22-08-2004 06:23PM

Micheal Wittman wrote:

Same thing happened to a friend of mine.He lived in a kind of 'ruff area' so every night he used to take the car battery out.Anyway,these scumbags tried to steal the car and relising they coudn't just rolled it down the road and set it on fire:( .He only had it a week and a half.

Would it not have been a hell a lot easier and quick to install a battery isolater switch?

Micheal Wittman · 22-08-2004 06:35PM

JohnCleary wrote:

Would it not have been a hell a lot easier and quick to install a battery isolater switch?

To be honest, I don't know if he knew that or not.

BTW I removed my post because I was getting neg karma for it.I don't know why(no comments) I now have -11

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 07:43PM

thanks a million for all your replies.
i know, im such a FOOL! i always, ALWAYS park in the the Killiney Court Hotel, but the entrance was bordered up due to work they were doing. the ONE TIME i leave my car there at night.

the car parked a space away from mine was untouched but it had some heat damage, some plastic parts were a bit melty, but that was it. a friend said that it was so personally done, it looked like i might have an enemy, but i doubt that however. but it was especially petty.

to be honest i dont want another car, it was going to be sold in a month or two to pay for college anyway, its original price was E25 grand, we're getting E5 grand from the insurance. woop.

Pandora, thats horrible about your brothers friend, im sorry it happened.

they knew i was a girl because of all the girly ****e on the dash etc, which makes me feel even worse (i dont know why, really, it just does) i only had a couple of months left with it, and he just passed the NCT< having forked over over E300 for a service.

ugh, but all this money **** isnt whats depressing me, i feel like my personal space has been violated (for want of a better word.) i feel like they knew me really well and ripped me apart. i can imagine them laughing at all the ****e in the car, at his name things and my tinsel and rosary beads.

i know CDs and everything else can be replaced, but everything that was a permanent fixture in the car meant so much to me, they were all laden with emotions, from the snoopy air freshner my ex gave me, to the angel thing my mum gave me.

if anyone is around killiney dart station in the next couple of days, take a look, it really is shocking. even looking at it now i feel queasy.

i know this sounds a little ridiclous but i feel really weak and vulnerable and helpless now,

it sucks.

SantaHoe · 22-08-2004 07:49PM

God damn scumbags

No respect for anyone elses property... yeah hey lets destroy someones livelyhood so we can have something to do.
If they want something to do so badly maybe we can sort out some labour camps.

dangerman · 22-08-2004 07:52PM

Geez I saw this, i was passing on the dart and saw the huge fireball of your car.

its just typical of the shankill/ballybrack etc. area...cars always just 'show up' on my road and then a day or two later boom. ****ing bastards.

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 07:59PM

oh, man, you saw it? god.

its so scary to think that people would wreck something so important to someone else for no gain for themselves. stealing a car is horrible enough. but setting a newish car alight when it was of NO benfit to them, if i could undertand it, i could let it go easier i think

ive been crying all day like a plonker. sigh.

wish i came home a little earlier and caught them doing it.

dangerman · 22-08-2004 08:04PM

i'm kinda glad you didn't catch em doing it, then you could have been hurt.

i know its really upsetting...but at least your ok etc.

Things like this always leave ya feeling really angry/frustrated/upset. As a kid I was jumped on a few times by the scumbags around shankill until i got big enough to defend myself...both my brothers were attacked at least once each...just a case of keeping ur head up and getting on with it.

rander00 · 22-08-2004 08:06PM

Dirty filty knackers! Why dont people that burn cars just end their pathetic little lives. How would you walk around,,, knowing your a knacker that robs and burns cars and too useless to earn ur own.

What kind of car was it, by the way?

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 08:15PM

it was a silver A class Merc.

my brother, sold it to me, VERY cheaply, three years ago when he permanently lost his drivers licence.
i was so lucky to have it.

ando · 22-08-2004 08:16PM

what? they didnt steal it... they just burnt it out??? fcking muppets, I remember my area was not great before the killbarack flats were destroyed, but you still would'nt see a car burnt out without been stolen first. Sounds like you got some real scum around that area. Is there no cctv around the dart station?

Waltons · 22-08-2004 08:22PM

Jealousy and pettyness are a dreadful combination to have.
Sorry to hear about the car SG

Silent Grape · 22-08-2004 10:07PM

there's no cctv in the actual carpark, only at the actual station. i just got back from seeing it again,

lord i feel like a puppy's been killed in front of me.

Chucky the tree · 22-08-2004 10:16PM

chin up, could be worse.

maybe if you watch those third world adds with starving babies you will feel better

Redshift · 22-08-2004 10:40PM

I know how you feel SG I had the first car I ever owned stolen from right outside the house in broad daylight. It makes you feel so angry that these little no hopers can come along and steal and thrash what's yours and that you worked your ass off for. But welcome to the joys of of car ownership in our island of jealous little scum bags. Since my first car was nicked however I have had it all, kicked off mirrors, blocks through the windows, slashed tyres you eventually become numbed to it. But just keep your chin up and remember they will probably end their pathetic existence in a gutter somewhere wheras you will amount to something.

elivsvonchiaing · 22-08-2004 10:44PM

Chucky the tree wrote:

chin up, could be worse.

maybe if you watch those third world adds with starving babies you will feel better

I find sticking on a Monty Phython DVD or just listening to a MP CD can be quite therapeutic. When its a case of I just saw that six months ago, I just delve further into my comedy collection. I think comedy is more therapeutic than reality TV IMHO.

Sounds selfish - but it does work.

Flukey · 22-08-2004 10:48PM

Sorry to hear about you car. Idiots the lot of them. If they want a car like that let them go out and get one by all means, but the legal way, by buying one, and doing the bit before that, earn the money. It really sickens me to hear things like this. They have absolutely no respect for anyone, those type.

Zaph · 22-08-2004 11:04PM

Grape, I really do sympathise. My car was done twice in the space of 18 months at Killiney station (on the road right outside the station - not even in the car park where it's a bit more secluded). The first time they buggered the front passenger door lock with a screwdriver, damaged the paintwork on the door, robbed the CD player and about 50 CDs from the car. Fortunately the CDs were copies I had burnt just in case something like that happened and my taste in music probably wouldn't be to the liking of your average scumbag.

A couple of months ago I came back to my car to find that some gurrier had put a rock through the back window just for kicks. This was in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. The guy in the station had just rung the Guards in Shankill a few minutes before I arrived and helped me clean out most of the glass (thanks Dave!), but both he and the Guards told me that several cars a week get broken into or vandalised at the station. What I can't understand is why there's no CCTV there as some form of deterrent - surely Irish Rail have some duty to ensure their customers can park their cars in safety?

In the end I gave up using Killiney and I park my car at Glenageary station now.

alleepally · 22-08-2004 11:12PM

sympathies are with you Grape. It's the personal nature of the items which you so treasured which must be worse.

It is also incredible that there is no CCTV camera and/or car park attendant there if (as other posts testify) it's a blackspot for vandalism.

Wonder if they started charging for parking at the Dart stations (proposed some months back) would they put some sort of security measure in place.

Iago · 22-08-2004 11:35PM

Silent Grape wrote:

sigh, it was in killiney dart station. killiney, of all places, ten minutes down from my house but oh no, i had to insist on driving down.

ballybrack scum.

I can't emphasis enough how sorry I feel for you, it's disgusting and disgraceful that this should happen to anyone at all, but I do take offence at your use of ballybrack scum, I'm from ballybrack and at no point have I ever been involved in anything like that. Why not just leave it at scum, it could be shankill scum, or loughlinstown scum, or even killiney scum. Regardless of where they are from they are scum, and probably in the minority in their area anyway.

I understand that you're very emotional about this, but it's still a tag I think is unfair

it's still an absolute disgrace that this happens anywhere regardless of who did it...

elivsvonchiaing · 23-08-2004 12:07AM

Iago wrote:

I can't emphasis enough how sorry I feel for you, it's disgusting and disgraceful that this should happen to anyone at all, but I do take offence at your use of ballybrack scum, I'm from ballybrack and at no point have I ever been involved in anything like that. Why not just leave it at scum, it could be shankill scum, or loughlinstown scum, or even killiney scum. Regardless of where they are from they are scum, and probably in the minority in their area anyway.

I understand that you're very emotional about this, but it's still a tag I think is unfair it's still an absolute disgrace that this happens anywhere regardless of who did it...

I had my car broken into in Howth DART station a few years ago and have no hesitation in labeling the perps Howth scum. I have little hesitation in stating there exists D4 Scum also. I can't believe you take offence at this. My sincerest apologies if you are over 200 years old :cool:

I now live in Kilbarrack and have registered myself as such - for sake of delicious "flame-grilled" argument - only one near uptake so far. You know who you are: where's my TG4 man

Iago · 23-08-2004 12:20AM

what I take offence to is the labelling of a section of people under an umbrella of "scum" it's no different to saying "black" scum or "chinese" scum or "English" scum...none of which are acceptable or factual.

Again I think that it's disgraceful that this should happen to anyones property anywhere at anytime, I think that anyone that does it should be strung up for it, but it's a minority of people who do it regardless of where they are from, we could go into a psychological debate around nature v nurture but that would be completely off-topic and I have no intention of doing that.

my car got burnt out last night

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