Hazell B
1st July 2010, 23:20
I'm probably going to end up being arrested next time I see my neighbour.
A few weeks ago cars in my road started getting splashed with paint stripper during the night. Of the roughly 14 cars parked outside our homes 7 have been damaged. Mine was the last one, about three weeks ago.
During that time another seven cars have been damaged while in a Tesco car park in town. Funnily enough, they made headline news in a local paper, while the far higher damage-to-car-number ratio in our street didn't get a mention :mark:
The rubbish police weren't even linking the attacks in our street until I went in and gave them a rollocking after mine was done.
Anyway, last week a neighbour called me and said she'd heard my next door neighbour had just been hauled out of Tesco in handcuffs after yet another car had been doused in paint stripper.
Long story short, he's an idiot and I've disliked him since he moved in and started to place his tiny Corsa in such a way that it uses two parking spaces and stops me parking half the time. He has OCD's that 'make' him park with one wheel in a spcific place, so I tend to let him get on with his whacked out ways .... even his need to hang washing out in the rain then instantly take it back in again. He's known as Freaky in our house.
He's been charged with 13 car attacks and let out on bail. He came home and parked outside my door as usual :mark:
A copper called me to say my car wasn't one of the 13 charges. None of them are cars in our street. The copper was part of a team calling damaged car owners. He had 23 people to call, none of whom had cars this man was being charged with damaging.
So, he's probably done over 40 (my maths are being very, very generous here - my guess is over 70 by the way the copper talked) but he's being charged with only 13.
I wonder how much all of his damage has cost the car insurance companies, and therefore all of us who drive?
For the record, I'm not claiming on my insurance. In fact it took me two days to bother wiping the stripper off my vehicle :rolleyes: and the only reason I kicked off with the police is that they were less than interested in all this damage in one small street and frankly I enjoy shouting at them :p :
So, do you love your neighbour as much as I do? :)
A few weeks ago cars in my road started getting splashed with paint stripper during the night. Of the roughly 14 cars parked outside our homes 7 have been damaged. Mine was the last one, about three weeks ago.
During that time another seven cars have been damaged while in a Tesco car park in town. Funnily enough, they made headline news in a local paper, while the far higher damage-to-car-number ratio in our street didn't get a mention :mark:
The rubbish police weren't even linking the attacks in our street until I went in and gave them a rollocking after mine was done.
Anyway, last week a neighbour called me and said she'd heard my next door neighbour had just been hauled out of Tesco in handcuffs after yet another car had been doused in paint stripper.
Long story short, he's an idiot and I've disliked him since he moved in and started to place his tiny Corsa in such a way that it uses two parking spaces and stops me parking half the time. He has OCD's that 'make' him park with one wheel in a spcific place, so I tend to let him get on with his whacked out ways .... even his need to hang washing out in the rain then instantly take it back in again. He's known as Freaky in our house.
He's been charged with 13 car attacks and let out on bail. He came home and parked outside my door as usual :mark:
A copper called me to say my car wasn't one of the 13 charges. None of them are cars in our street. The copper was part of a team calling damaged car owners. He had 23 people to call, none of whom had cars this man was being charged with damaging.
So, he's probably done over 40 (my maths are being very, very generous here - my guess is over 70 by the way the copper talked) but he's being charged with only 13.
I wonder how much all of his damage has cost the car insurance companies, and therefore all of us who drive?
For the record, I'm not claiming on my insurance. In fact it took me two days to bother wiping the stripper off my vehicle :rolleyes: and the only reason I kicked off with the police is that they were less than interested in all this damage in one small street and frankly I enjoy shouting at them :p :
So, do you love your neighbour as much as I do? :)