Well, it happened
Melting Slicks
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In any event, insurance should cover the expense of repainting.
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Regardless of the persons profession, personality, or where they park, it is not an open invitation to damage their car - even if it is a Hyundai. Bad parenting and illogical behavior aside, I sure hope Karma gets that clown 10 fold!
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I feel your pain. I had an '84 back in the early 90's and I parked at the mall, quite a ways out, in one space (no diagonal parking or taking up two spaces), with no other cars around and somebody keyed it from tailight to nose down one side. I'd only had the car a month.
Definitely use your resources to find this punk!!
Definitely use your resources to find this punk!!
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My 66 was keyed outside a Corvette car show that I was working at. The scratches went all the way through the paint and gouged the fiberglass. Had to be filled before painting. I ended up having to paint the entire car because the paint was a non-factory (unknown) color. Somebody knew you were pre-occupied... maybe check the store receipts?
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I drive a GMC cargo van for work and one night I stayed at my gal's place in a college town. I went into it the next day and apparently a couple of drunken rubes broke into it and had a little party. They didn't damage anything but they did steal a pair of work gloves my rain coat and my car charger. Although they did leave me a nice water bottle of vodka and some stinky cologne. Fair trade off I suppose!!!
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Back in the early 80's, a paint shop in Spokane Wa had a very skilled artist painting for them. A friend took his '78 TA in and had them paint it and put a beautiful mural of a bald eagle on the hood in place of the screamin' chicken. And as you can guess somebody decided they needed to take it down to the steel across one of the wings. Needless to say, no fix for this, short complete redo.
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And if we were speaking in the sweeping generality of the motoring public at large, I would agree. But I've seen too many cops who think they're still big shots even after they've retired. They get accustomed to all the perks that go with having God-like power and relapse into parking where ever and when ever they please although they no longer deserve that privilege. That scenario came to my mind when I read, cop + parked = paint keyed.
In any event, insurance should cover the expense of repainting.
In any event, insurance should cover the expense of repainting.
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Sorry about your car. I am a retired Police Chief. NO sense of entitlement here. I know you know better than to leave it unattended but it's just too bad there are so many jerks that can derive any pleasure from that kind of destruction.
My 65 was keyed about 40 years ago. They also put a hole in the soft top with a cigarette and poured beer over it. Probably just as well you or I didn't catch them in the act.
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Here's an example: I get a call on my cellphone, it's a cop from a neighboring municipality asking if I would grant him permission to fly his model airplane once my farm fields are fallow. I asked him how he got my unlisted number (I think all cell numbers are unlisted). He said, "I'm a cop. I can get anything I want." It seems when I reported a woman stealing perennials from my front yard a few years ago, I gave my phone number to my local police. Somehow it became public knowledge to a cop willing to do a search.
Am I the only one who thinks this an abuse of power? So parking in a place he shouldn't be is no great shakes for the corrupt cops in my neck of Penn's Woods.
Am I the only one who thinks this an abuse of power? So parking in a place he shouldn't be is no great shakes for the corrupt cops in my neck of Penn's Woods.
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And if we were speaking in the sweeping generality of the motoring public at large, I would agree. But I've seen too many cops who think they're still big shots even after they've retired. They get accustomed to all the perks that go with having God-like power and relapse into parking where ever and when ever they please although they no longer deserve that privilege. That scenario came to my mind when I read, cop + parked = paint keyed.
In any event, insurance should cover the expense of repainting.
In any event, insurance should cover the expense of repainting.
Of the several career police officers I know personally, they are to a man solid honest professionals. Can't say I've noticed a "God complex" from any of them. What I have seen is people who choose to do a job not many of us want, but which is vitally important to our communities - for not so great pay, sometimes in harms way, and with seemingly less and less respect from the very people they serve.
To somehow insinuate that it is karma that some lowlife might have vandalized the mans car in retaliation for doing his job - is just assinine.
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From: hernando fl
just because you are a current or former LEO does not make you a good person or a good cop,most are great but its like everything else,all it takes are a few bad experiences and your whole outlook changes.and yes i have had some terrible experiences with cops.
i am sorry to hear about your car
i am sorry to hear about your car
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At first I was kind of surprised at a couple of the comments here with respect to my '69 being keyed because I was a retired cop or that I probably displayed arrogance in the manner in which I parked because of my profession. But then, it actually became kind of funny and after thirty years of dealing with dirt bags I have pretty thick skin.
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I don't have anything supportive to say in the way of good cop bad cop. I do hope you catch the punk that did this to you. For me it is like the abondoned pet commercials you see on tv. It's not the dogs fault the owner went to prison save the dog from a shelter. Reguardless of what negative karma you may or may not have accrued. The kid that did this took it out on an innocent piece of American history an I would love to help you beat him into a coma for it.
I can understand 69chevy's opinions and also those of capevette. At the end of the day I don't care if the 69 I am staring at belongs to the cop that busted me for public intoxication during a 4th July party at my own damn house because I was in the street walking my gf to her car I am still not gonna key it. It is more likely that I would put on a skie mask an kick his *** when he came out especially if no cameras.
I can understand 69chevy's opinions and also those of capevette. At the end of the day I don't care if the 69 I am staring at belongs to the cop that busted me for public intoxication during a 4th July party at my own damn house because I was in the street walking my gf to her car I am still not gonna key it. It is more likely that I would put on a skie mask an kick his *** when he came out especially if no cameras.
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Are the police investigating?
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No one deserves what happened to your car. Good cop bad cop good waiter bad waiter good engineer bad engineer. If this was no accident and I don't think it was it was an act of a thoughless or evil person.
I for one want to thank you for your years of service
No one deserves what happened to your car. Good cop bad cop good waiter bad waiter good engineer bad engineer. If this was no accident and I don't think it was it was an act of a thoughless or evil person.
I for one want to thank you for your years of service
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Seems we kind of got off track here. The issue is some creep did considerable damage to a high $$ paint job on a classic car. Go figure. And, I realize there are those who have had bad experiences with authority figures. Personally, over half my career was assigned to homicide investigations so I really did not have a lot of contact with relatively minor misdemeanor incidents. As far as investigation by the local police they will to the extent they can. Crime reports, out of neccessity, are proritized. My experience with the police department where this happened has always been very satisfactory.
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A random act of vandalism! perpetrated by persons who's acts result in our loss of a portion of our freedom. Random acts is the key words we all fear and that, they should be, classed so, as the assassins and mass aggressors.
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Sorry to hear about your car.
That makes me sick to my stomach.
When we want to find out who done it
we turn to facebook. We have a Detective who knows how to
bait the lil turds and somebody eventually runs their soup suck.
I been asking our chief for a wood chipper for 2 years now.
With the advancement of modern medicine the process of natural selction has been thwarted.
I have been putting off painting my 68 for fear of that.
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Sorry to hear about your car.
That makes me sick to my stomach.
When we want to find out who done it
we turn to facebook. We have a Detective who knows how to
bait the lil turds and somebody eventually runs their soup suck.
I been asking our chief for a wood chipper for 2 years now.
With the advancement of modern medicine the process of natural selction has been thwarted.
I have been putting off painting my 68 for fear of that.
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Melting Slicks
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From: S Nevada
1955pirate, Im sorry to hear of the vandalism to your car. For some to insinuate you somehow brought this on, shame on them.
I agree, some of our forum members must have some serious problems with the law.
I had a custom painted camaro that did nothing more than sit in a parking lot waiting for me to return when some jealous ***** vandalized my hood. I saw a guy and his candy apple paint nova show up at a show with a key mark down the entire side, I had seen the car a few weeks earlier at another show, and it was gorgeous.
I hope your insurance covers the cost, the vandal is caught and that you have a better day.
I agree, some of our forum members must have some serious problems with the law.
I had a custom painted camaro that did nothing more than sit in a parking lot waiting for me to return when some jealous ***** vandalized my hood. I saw a guy and his candy apple paint nova show up at a show with a key mark down the entire side, I had seen the car a few weeks earlier at another show, and it was gorgeous.
I hope your insurance covers the cost, the vandal is caught and that you have a better day.