Whether or not this is right or wrong, lets just assume the car parked next to him WAS the car that broke his mirror off. They replaced the mirror thinking he wouldnt find out. They're probably sweatin' bullets all day long. Now put yourself in that persons shoes...

You've had that little nagging voice in the back of your head for the past 8 hours. You know you didnt leave a note, and you're hoping you'll get away with it. Then comes the long walk to the car. As you walk up you see nothing wrong, except for the mirror dangling by a thread! And the parking spot next to you is empty...

The ultimate payback!! hahahaha. You had that little glimmer of hope that the car you knocked the mirror off of wouldnt find out. But your gamble of whether or not to leave a note didnt pay off. Im all about eye for an eye, and although revenge doesnt fix your mirror, it was the least you could do in the situation.

Cause when it comes down to brass tax, you have no way to prove that the car parked next to you broke your mirror. Unless you and a stand-alone witness saw it happen, or the parking lot has video surveillance and you can get a hold of the tape, you'll never have a chance in hell of getting that person to pay for your mirror. They'll just say it was broke before the fact of the matter. A little vigilante justice was more than warranted in this situation I believe.

But then there's also the possibility of the car that was parked next to you was not the car responsible for your mirror...

 

I'm not commenting on whether you were right or not. But, I did once have a similar situation (kind of). I was in my truck at a Target parking lot. I was going through some papers but still sitting in my car. A van pulled next to me, the fat b!tch swung the door open to get her fat @ss out of the car, and put a nice door ding on my rear quarter panel (a 2000 Toyota Tundra).

I got out, looked at the car and saw the ding, then told her she needs to pay for it. Instead, her trailer park disgusting cottage cheese butt told me "it's a parking lot, it happens" and that "I'm delerious if I think she's paying for it", and started to walk away. So I swung my door into her van as hard as I could (fortunately for me I had 3M tape along my door edges), put in a beautiful dent, told her "it happens, it's a parking lot" and drove off next to her van, and my side mirror broke hers off in the process (no damage to mine, it was chrome).

It felt good, and I would have done it again. I only paid $75 to have the ding pulled but taught her a lesson. But I also saw who did it; I probably wouldn't have if not.

 

THAT IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

First of all, i'm sorry what happened to you, bro. some people are so careless, ignorant and irresponsible... This unknown, shameless punk would definitely deny the crime if you have waited(even when police would arrive in time). Hopefully your action taught him a lesson.

last year my truck got broken in while i was street parked and had my wallet and ipod stolen. it was broad day light and it was only stationary there for no more than10 mins. i called up cops and they showed up 2 hours later saying he couldn't do much about it except for writing up a report, so maybe i could claim it through my insurance. of course deductible didn't cover and ended up fixing it myself. if i've known who did it, i would've set his house on fire.

 

^^Exactly why I didn't want to waste my time with the cops they wouldn't have done anything and I would have ended up paying for it.


That car didn't park in my parking lot today, and I looked everywhere. I also know that the convention (in America's Mart) is a couple days long, so they must have gotten scared. All in all if this happened again and I saw reasonable evidence (considering the circumstances) I would probably do it again.

 

Exactly it seems that the majority of atlantians are of lower class and couldn't care less about other people's cars because theirs are crappy. I work near the America's Mart and when venders dome from all over the country there is no parking anywhere around there.

I would say about every other day I get a ding in my parking lot, and most of the time I just say f*ck it and drive off but this was over the line and I had to do something.

 

My temper woulda pushed me to do the same thing you did but my belief in Karma woulda woulda stopped me. ...hopefully before I did any damage.

 

Actually, it's not. In our legal system you have to prove guilt beyond a doubt. Any good defense would look you in the eye and tell you to prove that he didn't get in his car to go get lunch at which point it would have happened , and then he returned and got the same spot. It only takes a question of innocence to walk away. Don't believe me? Look at the OJ case.

BUT with your evidence, if you really wanted legal revenge and truly believe the police would not have done anything, is to take pictures and take it to small claims court. In a civil court you have a good chance for a ruling in your favor.

And for the record I'm gonna have to agree with Break_Away, even if you didn't intend to take legal recourse you shouldn't have broken the mirror.

And you're throwing the word karma around a lot. Revenge is not karma.

 

side note ... going back to like pages 2 and 3 ...

its an "accident" for which there are no witnesses, on private property, and going to end up in one person's word against another.
Haven't just experienced a fender bender with a person who refused to admit fault, I am now having to pay my deductable to get it fixed. The officer worked the accident, filed the report, but couldn't determine cause or fault fault.
Becuase of law enforcement's neutrality on the issue, and her adamanet refusal to admit fault, I am stuck with it, despite submitting pictures and a far more detailed account of the incident, none of which did she deny, only attempt to rebuttle.



I probably would have done the same. I'm personally fighting the urge to inflict $650 worth of damage on her vehicle.

 

No, but the act of revenge can alter your karma.

 

nevermind what you think. The real issue is that you would have done the exact same thing if you hit their mirror, so in essence, you both lose.

 

^^ what do you mean, that I would put the mirror back in place and walk off w/o leaving contact info? No, I would own up to my mistakes and pay for it.

 

So your "stand up" morals don't pertain to revenge? It's one or the other. Unfortunately, when you are on the fence about the way you govern yourself, people have a hard time believing you are a stand up person? That's what I think is the problem here.

 

Accidents happens. They were just hoping putting your mirror back on you wouldnt notice. They are ____ty people. You should of taken pictures of your car with the damage, the place where his door hit your car and the damage it left, and a picture of his liscence plate for proof incase he tried to run off without giving you insurnace information.

If he refused to share insurance information, then you should of called the police to come out and do their thing. And if he left you have photos of the damage that was done by this person and they fleed. Big no-no.

As for your actions. If i was that guy, id press the same damn thing against you that you have against me. Except for i would just be a ____ person for not leaving my information that i hit your car. You would fall under mallicious intent. Guess who gets to pay to fix what. You.

Hell someone decided to detial my bumper with a shopping cart at the grocery store on sunday to the tune of 600 bucks to have repainted. I aint gonna do anything to that persons car, but i WISH i knew who it was so i could have them pay for this and not out of my pocket.

 

ha ha... my b/f and I just read this.. i laughed cuz its exactly what we wouldve done... had he/she the decency of writing a note about the incident then it may have been different. But the fact that they knew they messed it up.. especially cuz they tried to hide it by trying to replace it hoping it would stay put, just makes the matters worse. I agree with what you did and i think it was well deserved. Just cuz they have a beater and could care less about what their car looks like doesnt mean they should show the same lack of respect for others. If anyone should get a lecture about right and wrong it should be that person... oh great CSI work by the way lol... dude seriously.. what are the odds of 2 cars of the same color (( not to mention GOLD )) parking next to you... it was him.. no question about it... I of all people look for the goodness in a person.. but you cant make excuses for them all... so dont worry about what you did.. i'm sure many of us wouldve done the same. And those who say they wouldnt probably are lying... or are use to being walked on.

 

or are more mature with handeling things like this.

and you DONT know 100% it was that person. you cant prove it, and neither can he.

 

Quoted for truth.


This thread has also shown me just how vengeful a lot of people are. I myself am not religious at all, in fact I am just the opposite. But I wonder how many people who say that they would have done the same thing would describe themselves as religious.

Just a thought.

 

Could you explain how they managed to stick your mirror back in place? I’m having a hard time understanding how you can set something on a vertical surface.

I’m thinking it may have happened this way….
They smashed against your mirror hard enough to break it, but not separate it. They surveyed the damage and found nothing wrong, so they felt no need to leave a note. When you got in your car and closed the door, the shock caused it to finally break loose.

One more thought. Would this incident have happened if you had pulled into your parking spot instead of backing in? Door-dings still suck, but they are usually cheaper to repair.


Speaking of “karma” (what goes around, comes around)… It doesn’t just make 1 revolution and then stop. It has a tendency of repeating itself.

 

well i just came on the thread to share my thoughts on this... and in no way came here to argue... but i will say this... after reading this thread in its entirety, I have found that you are constantly trying to emphasize how mature you are and how childish his actions were... but i've read 10+ post from you on this topic... wouldnt a "mature" person given his 2 cents then left it at that? And not argue and defend how "mature" he was... if you know that you're more mature then that, why do you feel it necessary to continue to defend yourself? You dont have to answer, cuz i probably wont even read it cuz i'm sure i have more mature things to do... even though i'm sure you have this thread as one of your favorites already. THE END =)

 

Now there is a Karma loophole in this situation..........bear with me..........what you needed to do was break his mirror off.........then leave a note............not that you broke his mirror off.......but that you found his mirror broken off his car.......and off of yours and that if they had any info they could give you a call.........some punk must of been vandelizing cars that day.............see simple as can be.........