Why is it (supermarket parking)

Presumably whilst you were letting her tyres down you took a note of the registration number so you can find out who the insurer is and make a claim?

Indeed, couple of photos of the matters you describe and a note of the reg and you'd have a good claim. Possibly even waiting til the driver returns and seeing what is said and if an offer of recompense is forthcoming. Instead, someone appears to have committed an offence of criminal damage. An eye for an eye and all that, especially where potentially a negligent act by a child may have been responded to with an intentional act by an adult. Also fail to see the relevance of the driver's gender. Other than that, I'm sympathetic.

You have my sympathy Major. That is one of the reasons I pay Ocado to deliver to my door - I cannot imagine going back to the weekly hell of the supermarket.

Lost me right there.

You could have rubbed a potato over her paint work and left your keys in her exaust pipe

Nah I didn't bother taking the reg. I really don't want the hassle of going through the insurance to get a 1cm chip fixed. I'd have to check but I don't think we have courtesy-car cover so that would be an inconvenience for a start

I was really fuming when I made the post above so apologies now for some of the non-PC generalisations.

But still I can't figure why the driver needed to park their car right next to ours in an otherwise empty row. When my twins were young enough to need car-seats, we always used to try and park somewhere where there was enough room to get the kids out of the seats without whacking a neighbouring car. It's not like there wasn't any spare spaces: there was enough room park a bus.

Should you ever need to let air out of your own tyres, you'll find the end of a retracted biro is an amazing multiuse tool as it perfectly fits the end of most tyre-valves.

I have often thought this as I am the same. I always park out of the way as it is really annoying to find someone has pranged your car (my current car had a nice dint on the front wheel arch after being swiped by someone parking. Ever had that???, walking back to your car and thinking, what the heck is that on the ...<insert any relevant section of car bodywork>.

I read up about it and the most popular school of thought suggests subconscious herding.

What I meant was, you lost my sympathy when you revealed that you committed an act of vandalism by letting down the tyres and thus immobilising the other vehicle.

 

 

 

As I live in greater london I have given up buying decent cars,  

My wife recently parked her mondeo st on the street outside the school she works in and low and behold it was hit along the entire side by a bus/lorry. :angry:" src="http://cdn.whathifi.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/angry.png" alt="|(" width="19" height="19" />

I suggested a nissan micra next -------did not go down well.

Hopefully you're never in a situation which frustrates you as much as this did me: at the time I felt like doing far more than just letting its tyres down, because it's an accident which just shouldn't have happened. Does that make me right? No of course not but when you're wound up you want some instant justice you see red. If you've never been in a situation where you've felt the same, and can empathise, then you're one lucky man.

I doubt the driver was immobile for long: the airline was only 50yds across the carpark if that. While on the other hand I have physical damage to fix, having deliberately parked miles away from civilisation in attempt to prevent such an accident.

Hmm, so does that justify punching a man in the face if he annoys you, so long as you're opposite a hospital?

I'm with chebby on this one - if you can't control your temper so as not to carry out a deliberate (and completely forethought and presumably time consuming) act of aggression, then you need to attend some anger management classes.

 

I do the same as you Majorfubar, partly to stop others ramming me, but also because my car has really poor rearward visibility and lousy manoeuvrability so I don't want to hit anyone either. I don't want to comment on your retribution, but I've noticed the same thing happening time and time again, I even sustained a bit of a scuff on the drivers door from a careless individual last week, buffed out luckily.  I reckon other drivers need another car to line themselves up against, can't see the lines maybe??

I didn't say it was justified.  I said it was a red-rag reaction brought on by the 'I don't give a ****' attitude that too many people have these days.  This is not the first time I've had something like this happen, in the same car-park as well (though different car).  On that occasion, I did nothing.  This time, yeah, I felt vindicated.  Yeah it felt good.  And yeah, it was just like punching someone in the mush who thoroughly needs it, then regretting it afterwards. Luckily though, I've only ever had need to do that once.

No way did they not notice that they'd pronged my car. Even if they've no paper or pen to leave a note, all they had to do was to ask the guy on the supermarket PA system to ask me to come to the front desk and then own up.  I wouldn't even have asked to swap details: just a shake hands in a "just forget it, **** happens" kind of way.

I'm not saying my reaction was right, nor am expecting anyone on a public forum to publicly agree with it.  Two wrongs occurred in that car-park today, leaving one person needing to blow up their tyres and another person - me - needing to repair a chunk out of their car's paint.  I'd happily swap places.

 

You may have a point there, but I wish they'd chosen the darn wall at the other end!

Had this happen to me only had the car a week and some idiot parked too close and chipped the paint on the door.

Best one I witnessed was a friend of mine who parked in a B&Q carpark, just like you he parked as far away from the store as possible.

His car was one of 4 cars parked in the whole carpark, whilst waiting for another friend to turn up a female driver drove all the way down the carpark and...... yep park right next to him leaving about 10mm gap between the wing mirrors.

He wound his window down and thanked the lady for parking so close, she turned around got back in her car and drove off eventually parking some 20 or so spaces away.

She then walked all the way back to my friend and said is that far enough.

I think it is called the sheep syndrome.

lololol absolute class move by your mate