I can never understand just what they get out of it. They deface someone's property for what?

Most of the time I live in Southern California at a beach resort in an apartment (I do have a home in Northern California.) I have no garage or car port, and I am actually very fortunate to get off-street parking assigned to me (had to wait almost 3 years to get it.)

My C6 vert is parked right outside of my bedroom window, but facing a busy commercial street with constant night life. At 2 am I shut-off the computer and went into the bedroom, looking out the window as I usually do. This time I saw the cover pulled half-way off.

This has happened a couple times before. I always figure a homeless person saw it as his nightly refuge. I had one stolen last year so now I use an under-the-car cable which works well.

I went out to fix it. But when I got out there I found something brown and sticky all over the hood and windshield; most likely Coke or Pepsi.

Took only about a half hour to wipe off with soap and water, but I had worked all night and didn't need this. The next day I detaild the entire car and everything is good again.

Why do they do this? I always make an effort to be friendly to everyone who walks by. I avoid stiring anything up with the mostly young crowd that inhabits the beach, but I guess the odds are it's just going to happen. Still, I can't help but feel this is absolutely senseless and stupid. What possible gain could someone get from doing this to someone's car?

 

It's only going to get worse, believe me. Some people need to be taught a hard lesson. They got off from their earlier mistakes too easily.

 

So sorry to hear this - you have a very nice looking car.

Impossible to explain why someone would do this. Stupidity and ignorance are right up there but it can't be that alone.

Glad it cleaned up OK with no damage. Not good for a restful sleep in the future, however.

 

You live in a conservative area. Do you have a political sticker on your car?

 

I just don't get it either. I recently purchased my first vet, 05 C-6, and it just enraged my neighbor. He goes on tyrades (sp) everytime I drive the car or pull it out of the garage to wash it. He yell's that no one cares that I have a corvette or he hopes something happens it to or why do I brag by parking it in the driveway. I usually just ignore him. Keep in my mind that I live in a quite neighborhood that most people drive vehicles that cost over $40,000, so new cars are nothing out of the ordinary.

He just has some problem with the corvette. It's like it just enrages some folks.

 

Plain and simple some people can not stand others who have something nice and they do idiotic acts because they are idiots.

 

It's jealousy...pure & simple. I had an 02 Z06 vandalized in my driveway a few years back...and recently had my Viper coupe scratched all to sh*t in my driveway also...The Z06 also had the tires slashed.

If memory serves,the Z06 was ~$4k to fix & the Viper(which I'd had less than a month) was almost $10k....

 

Sorry to hear about this----glad the damage wasn't worse.

It's always been my theory that a good number who do this are people we would otherwise consider normal. Anonymity and extreme jealousy bringing out their true character.

 

Some moron stuck a big wad of bubble gum on my drivers door while parked over night at the Beau Rivage. There was probably several million $ in classic and exotic cars in the garage that night and the idiot picked me. No permanent damage, just a head scratcher!

 

Stuff like this used to happen all the time to my wife and I when we lived in San Diego for 9 years (MB, then Point Loma, then Tierrasanta).

It's one of the reasons we moved to the Mid-West (St. Louis area). You sound like a nice person, stuck in a sea of ego-centric a**holes. That's So Cal for you

Hopefully this won't happen to you again. Good luck!

 

I've watched the respect for others and others property go downhill in this country since the late 80's (thats when it seem to have started),,,,got worse and worse. Its sad.

i can remember going camping with my x and the kids in my surfing days, leaving stuff all over the campsite, un watched...going down to the ocean.... sometimes driving to it..coming back, everything is still there...

parking in places with no lights (nice cars), no break ins, keyed places, coke throws....nadda .nadda....

it just sucks anymore. so many people are just trash....

im in animal rescue, and i could tell yall horror stories that will bring you to tears..

 

This economic climate is making people more desperate.. My wife manages a dental office. She sent one of the girls to deposit the checks for the day. As she left the office she was threatened by someone with a taser to hand over the pouch. He knocked her down and ran off with a bunch of checks, no cash and no value to him. Someone then found the pouch in the back of their pick-up across town and it was returned with nothing missing.. be careful out there...

 

Class Envy, some politicians are good at exploiting it

 

Some people are fighting back...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,3213846.story

 

some people should just be shot and killed....vandals would make that list.

 

Sorry to hear that. Some people just don't get it.

 

Good god, that sounds like a neighbor from hell. My neighbors all gave me the or complemented me directly on the Corvette.


To the OP sorry to hear about the situation. Get a place with a private (one car) garage ASAP if at all possible. The Corvette is too much of a magnet to leave in public areas unattended IMO.

Relatively few people in this world genuinely respect other people and their things. I believe the reason vandals exist is that too many stupid people are breeding. This was mentioned in another thread and I believe it as well. If you can't or are unwilling to give your offspring a good home filled with love, support, guidance and discipline, then don't have them in the first place.

 

Luckily no one's physically defaced any of my Corvettes over the years, but I've definitely had my fair share of earfuls from jealous a**holes.

Some people just have no respect. It's not right.

 

No bumper stickers on the Corvette.