So here it is a beautiful day here in Northeast Pa. I figure lets go have a picnic at the local state park. Mind you my Z has 2100 miles on it, All from long trips, never seen rain yet, and I have had it since Feb. I don't take it to work and when I do go for rides I park FAR FAR Away from everyone.
So getting back to the story. We just finished eating so we figured we'd lay out in the sun for a bit. We were in a secluded area " I was the only one parked in a lot of about 50 parking places" All of a sudden I hear this FLUF FLUF FLUF sound of a piece of S@#$ rusted station wagon pulling into the grove. So I just watched and wouldn't you know it out of the 50 EMPTY PARKING PLACES THE SCUMS PARKED NEXT TO ME!!!!! Two fat trailor park queens alog with their kids got out of the junk and walked into the woods. I went up to see how close they parked next to me and there was probably 1.5 feet in between us. Remember this is a lot the size of 1/2 a football field and I was the only car parked their before these pigs came.
So I looked at the car and found a door ding on the back fender 1.5 inches behind the door handle. I WENT NUTS. I Went into the woods looking for them and when I found them I told them what I found and I told them I expected them to pay for the damage. Well the one pig said , in her trailor park southern drawl", Prove it was from me YUPPY. Hence I preceded to flip out and argue with the scumball trailor pig while she cursed at the top of her lungs in front of the small children with her. A park ranger came by due to the noise I suppose and I explained everything and he told me the same thing, "How can I prove it was from them". I then really lost it when the white trash pigs started laughing about the whole thing. The park ranger called for the police and when they arrived he knew the scums. To end the story I was told unless I can prove it then I better lower my voice and calm down , " There are children present" . This is all after the pigs said about every curse in the book that they learned from Jerry Springer reruns.
I then composed myself and left.
I called a few dent wizzard places and took the car to them yesterday. The first place looked at it and said he will go through the wheelwell but he doesn't know if he could fix it. He also seemed like he wasn't very confident working on it. The second place is an used exotic car dealership, and when the guy saw it he said he's not sure if he could do it without damaging the pearl paint. He also seemed afraid to do it. Anyway, I have an appointment next Wednesday so hopefully it could be fixed.

Things I learned through this experience:
1. You can't argue with White Trash, Their brains can't comprehend what you say.
2. Nomatter how safe and carefull you are with the car it really doesn't matter. Scumballs will park by you.
3. That even though our car is worth 35000 people treat us like its a 100000 car. The second place I took it to has alot of VERY expencive cars but when I pulled in basically everyone came to see the Z.
4. That Valium is a very good.

 

Hugo,sorry about your dent Unfortunately,white trash seem to be in abundance in our beautiful part of the world called the Poconos.

 

God that sucks. Did you get their license plate? I would find out who they are and make thier life a living hell. These type of people need to be tought wright from wrong.

 

OMG what a horror story!

Man...first off, I know this is after the fact, but for the rest of us...if this happens, just say you SAW them open the door into your car!! Also, I have parked way out before and found that people ALWAYS end up parking next to me >:-(

Man, I would have been tempted to just pack up the car without confronting them, break out their windows and slash their tires and take off...petty I know, but I would freak out too...

 

I'm with buzz here. Hell hath not one clue of fury as when someone F**KS with my car. Revenge is so sweet that it's addicting. I had a similar experience back when I had gotten my first new car in '99. Granted it was only a Grand Am but being 17 it was a nice car to have. So I always parked it in the BFE section of EVERY lot I went to, even while at work. Well work has a HUGE parking lot close to the size of 5 football fields (large shopping plaza) and I would park and walk close to 1/4 mile (and the car was at least 600 feet from ANY other car. I took no risks, I'm that **** about a nice looking car) from my work. I always parked next to one of those grass/tree curb dividers so no one could park on the one side of my car. Lo and behold this NASTY late 70's Perrissiean (sp?)/Bonneville parks it's rusted beat up gawd awful looking @$$ next to me. I took a pic of the parking job they did. Their car was something like 14 inches (I measured) from my car, they actually had to park OVER the parking space lines (I'm NOT kidding).

So when I come out and see this $h!7 I go completely livid. Inspecting the car I find scuff marks on the mirror from where the door had hit the mirror. I figured I would never be able to get anything out of these people and that it'd be a waste of my energy to scream at them. So my creative vengeance went into high gear.

I squeezed into the car carefully and pulled out of the spot and parked it a few away. Running around the parking lot I found EVERY F**KIN' shopping cart I could. I mean EVERYONE (there was a super Kmart in the shopping plaza. 20 minutes later these F**KER's car had been bombarded and completely surrounded by at least 50 shopping carts. I stacked them inside of one another so you simply couldn't just drive off by pushing your way through them. I found a dead seagull (that looked to have been chilling there for a few hours, he was fresh) in the lot as well and guess who's windows were down? So they had seagull nasty all over the inside of their car as well. I took out my g/f's lipstick that was in my glovebox and wrote them a message around the entire car and put a nice little pic to go along with it all, it looked something like this:

................./´¯/)
..............,/¯../
............./..../
......./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
..../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
..('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')
...\.................'...../
....\.................._.·´
......\..............(
........\.............\
.........\.............\
..........\.............\

I drove the rest of the way home (30 mile commute) giggle like a little school girl and I felt a BILLION times better. It also made it alot easier to look at the scuffed mirror when I washed and waxed the car, I'd always smile or chuckle.

The best part to it all is that I came into work the next day and a coworker was telling another coworker about how her nieces car was TOTALLY trashed the day before and that they had to spend 30 minutes to get the car out of the lot and then they found a dead seagull in it (HOW they missed it to begin with is beyond me, the thing WREAKED.) when they got home and she freaked out. They (I swear to God this is what she said) thought they were reliving some "attack of the birds" horror flick and that their car was cursed. I nearly spewed my Mt. Dew while dying from laughter. It made me feel so much better KNOWING I had completely F**Ked with their day like they had with mine the day before.

Vengeance is a beautiful thing when used right.

(Sorry for the long post, but I figured it would help ya laugh or at least smile or something.)

 

Why didn't you just walk back to your car with the cop and show him how your ding lined up exactly with their door?? There might have even been some paint residue on your car or their door.

 

Z350Maniac - That's hilarious! Especially the part about the seagull.

I have been tempted to do things like this in the past, but after many years of owning cars that I really cared for and seeing the rest of the world not give a cr@p, I have realized that my sanity is best preserved by letting things go. When I picked up my new Z at the dealer, I visualized it with scrapes, dents and scratches and made peace with it right away. If someone dents it and I see them, I'll confront them, but I won't be furious and I'll accept a simple apology. With this mindset I can enjoy driving the thing without obsessing over the details.

Besides, I bought this car for its performance (on track) not for its styling.

Jason

 

Oh man... i always park in end/corner spots, but sometimes at restaurants I'll park in a spot that looks spacious enough to prevent dings. No more! I think I'm gonna just take the extra step and still park far away even if it is for short amounts of time.

 

Thanks guys for all of the encouragement. First off if there was a part of their car that they would have noticed any furter damage it would have took me all day to find it. "There has been many a time with other situations like this that I got revenge on the other car 100X over what they did to mine.
Noel can vouch for me. Even though we live in a "nice" area for recreation , this area has attracted ALOT of WHITE TRASH and its a shame that they don't respect other peoples property.
The seagull thing was great , If their window was open I would have looked for some dog S#$@ and gave them a present, They probably wouldn't have noticed though.
I did show the ranger and the cop the dent but because there was no paint mark they said you can't prove it." Even though it lined up" Also the cop knew them.
Jason I wish I could have your attitude but my attitude is I respect your property respect mine. It does make me nutz but since I've been 16 I've had cars that won best paint, best in show awards and since the z isn't my daily driver I am extreemely obsessive about it.
Buzz , I should have gotten their licence plate but I was so crazy from the whole thing I forgot.

The best story I have is " my friend" Ehhhemmm cough cough, a few years back just bought a new eclipse. This was his first Brand new car and he worked alot to get it. He went to the video store came out and I , I mean he had no idea how the person got out of their new durango that was next to him , There had to be 12" between them. Well ,"by Accident" He slid down the length of their new durango with his belt buckle out and oooops I guess the truck was to close to the eclipse that they dented and they got a nice big scratch down their new black truck. He though about it after he did it and thought "Was that a little to harsh?", Hell No if someone was going to not care enough about someone elses property then they deserved it. If it was an accident then they should apologise, but for blatent disreguard there isn't an excuse.

 

pour some sugar into their gas tank.

 

That is the nightmare from hell. That you FOUND the bastard and still couldn't do anything about it (ie., beat his head in).

So sorry Hugo about your PPW.

 

Did they dent "his" car first? I am a retaliatory/vigalante freak myself but very few things would make me key someone's car. I suppose if they parked like a jackass and dented my pristene Z, then I would likely gouge their car.

 

park far away AND park diagonally across two spaces if possible as long as there are plenty of free spaces.

 

It amazes me how often I will find the perfect spot only to come back to the Z and find a POS 12 inches away. I really think they do it on purpose. Oh, and yes, trying to argue with ignorant people is a waste of time. Those folks that dinged your Z are probably posting right now on a Trailortrash.com thread talking about how this rich guy harrassed them at the park.

 

hugo, sorry to hear about the ding experience. I've had the same problem...park away from everybody and somebody has to pull up and park a foot away. Even when I park in an empty lot, or the empty part of a lot, I don't tend to take up more than one space because of the people that will screw with the car just because of that. But the idiots still seem to be drawn to the car like magnet.

 

Hugo--so sorry to hear that. I would have gotten arrested for assault. That really sucks that they wouldn't do anything about those losers.

 

LOL...I actually checked trailortrash.com.

My_Tampa_Z, you crack me up :-)

 

Sorry to hear hugo, glad that you kept yourself composed... showed more restraint than I would have...

Next time (if there should be), slash their tires and then ask them to prove it.

 

Yeah...DONT take up more than one spot...people will just screw with you more...speaking from a personal mishap here.

 

Gooters Yes the eclipse had a dent or else I wouldn't , I mean he wouldn't have done anything.
Everyone Thanks for the stories, Like I said I have to wait until 9-3 to take it to the dent guy.
The site is great for therapy. Its good to have people with the same views and love for cars to share stories with.
I told some people at work today and they said big deal and it just infuriated me further.