Attempted Vandalism story

So I'm sitting in from of my friends cigar store having a smoke with some friends enjoying the beautufil weather, car is parked on main street in a very good neighbourhood...I happen to be admiring my car when a large Suburban drives by with 3 well dressed guys, the rear passenger leans out and flicks his lit cigarette at the open window of my car, on purpose...I mean this guy was aiming for the half open window with an angry look on his face...lucky for both parties the cigarette bounced off the window and landed on street....Unbelievable...these were not low lifes, they had shirts and ties on...I was dumbstruck...not worth the assult charge to go after someone like that, but I was pissed... I simply cannot understand what would drive someone to do that...I can understand stealing a car...but trying to lob a lit smoke thru the window...the guy looked almost 50...incredible... As it turns out my friends told me their stories of cigarette burns, poured coffes and milk shakes in their convertibles and open sunroofs... What really shocked me was the age of this guy, his suit and the fact we were in one of Torontos best neighbourhoods...

thats unbloody believable...people like that ******* clearly suffer from SPS or small ***** syndrome. this is often accompanied by lazyness and or jealously. btw..what cigar shop was this?

So did you get the license number and report him to the police or registry? Maybe it will come to nothing, but I have seen situations where the cops haul the guy in and rain on his whole day for a-hole behavior like that. In the city, I live in little Italy, believe me that stuff does not happen there, and if it does, the neighborhood takes care of it quietly.......

wow, man that really sucks.

In front of the Smoking Cigar on Bayview , South of Eglington, usually a few Porsches and the odd Ferrari there on the weekend afternoon. Unfortunately we didn't get the plate, but would recognize the car...still amazed I actually saw someone do that...what a dope

the age and the way you described his apparel is what suprises me the most. thats why if you have a coupe, park it with everything closed no matter how sunny it is, same with cabs, never leave the top open no matter how short you're going to be in the store, and how nice /many times you've been to that place. it's just not worth coming back to your 80k+ car and seeing a bucket of chinese food/coffee/soda/cigarette butts/etc. (all described in stories) in your interior. envy is a dangerous thing. people are ******** when they think/blindly know they can get away with something.

Hrm....I'm in that area all the time... What colour was the suburban? I'll keep an eye out....

There's a small but dangerous group of people who deeply resent the success of others. Driving a Porshe can stimulate their deep seated resentment. It's best to ignore these people, and take appropriate precautions so that it will be difficult to for them to damage your property or worse yet cause you physical harm.

I just got email from a rennlister who has moved back from California to his home country in Holland. He freighted his 996 back with him. After he got it back he had problems with his tail and he emailed me cos I had similar problems before and he thought I might be able to tell him how to fix it. I suggested the fix but here is his reply. Can you believe this crap! Who would do such a thing? The world's gone mad

You can dress 'em up , but ya' can't take'em out!!! A pig with a suit on is still a pig!! That being said... there are undoubtedly some people of good character, even in the worst places and neighborhoods.

I do not understand why people do some of the things that they do. I once came back to my car to find that somebody has left chewing gum on the side window. Not just placed it there, but smeared it right along the edge of the weather stripping so that when the window went down it would catch in the felt and "gum" up the works. This was also in a nice residential neighborhood while parked in a driveway.

I am much more aware of the resentment some people carry. Came back to my p-car to find that someone had jumped on my front hood and roof top, denting both. Cost $6,800 to repair. Very unfortunate.

I'm in that area fron time to time as well Carbon. Sad to hear. Some people are just born losers and figure if they can't have something pretty, neither can anyone else. A friend who lives in a really nice neighbourhood had his Ducati pushed over (lucky his Porsche wasn't outside). He put it out again as "bait", waited with a few "friends",and apparently the slime-bag that did it won't be going anywhere without a wheelchair for a good, long time.

Ohhhhh, I love a story with a good ending...............

Good ending - hell, that's a fairytale ending!

You know I too am as wary as the next p-car driver about securing a safe parking spot for my car where ever I go but I will admit that when I'm in a hurry, I just park the car (top down or not) and take care of business as quickly as possible. So, given that, I'd like to contribute a "not everyone is an a-hole" story to balance out this thread a bit. I happened to pull my cab quickly into an end parking space in the back lot of my phavorite Philly cheese steak place here in NorCal and shut the car off. That's when I noticed the two scruffy, obviously homeless people sitting just out of sight. They were clearly staring at my car. Call me crazy (or hungry) but I felt re-starting the car and moving it would have been too obvious and probably elicited the actions I really wished to avoid. So, I quickly went in, obtained the fat laden food I so desired and returned to my car. I'll admit that I did an obvious walk-around before I left the lot (fist clenched ready to kick some a$$ at the first sign of something awry) when one of the homeless guys said "Don't worry dude, we're homeless not car wreckers". Someone got it right when they said you can dress a pig up but they're still just a pig.

Joe, I would have slipped the homeless guys $5 going in. These guys would then fight to keep other people from touching your car.

I like the "Fairytale" ending too. But it was taking quite a risk. I'm not sure that the scumbag was worth the possible assault charge... but then again... We had the rear window of our Grand Cherokee smashed in last Saturday night. And believe me, as I was picking glass shards out of our baby's seat, I was contemplating doing the same thing. And the unfortunate thing is, if you believe the statistics of various medical associations, 1 in every 10 people are mentally ill, to some degree. So who is to say that the agressive trucker behind you didn't suddenly hear a voice telling him to flatten your Porsche because you're an alien invading America?! People can be sick, and/or just plain nasty, and so I've become somewhat cynical I never leave windows open, try to park in good lots (easy to do in the financial district), etc. I guess it's the price of having nice cars, nice motorcycles, "insert favorite nice toy here", ...

Last time I was in the US (a few weeks back) I was referred to as being an "alien".

I would have tracked and caught up to them if I could and with a cell phone in one hand created all kinds of problems for them. . . . Amazing what a destruction or property or malicious mischief charge can do to ones wallet and time.... maybe these idiots need some lessons.....

I spent some time in east africa, when leaving the car to do errands we would give money to kids or people on the street to watch over it. A bit different there though becuase you expect some thing to happen if you don't and it doesn't have to be even a nice car. It's sad that some people think they can act like this. I could see if it was a personal but these people assume that the owner is rich or something. I've come back to find that someone has horked on the car. One time they smeared a ice-cream cone on my land rover.

996Gurl....."the statistics of various medical associations, 1 in every 10 people are mentally ill". You equate vadalism with mental illness? I surely hope you do not believe this. Don't you think that you are generalizing a bit? If those kinds of "factual" statements are going to be thrown around please cite your source. By the way, there are only 2 associations that you should be quoting from with regard to mental illness (American Psychiatric Association (M.D.'s) or the American Psychological Association (Ph.D.'s)) since these are the two organizations that are the professionals.

jealousy and envy would be the culprit here.

"I hear voices.................and they don't like you"............ saw this on a T shirt at Laconia race week..............

Nope. Pls read my post - I was simply saying that there is no way to fathom or predict the reactions of people around you, to you & your vehicle. And that confrontation is, quite frankly, a risky alternative. Reference: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm

I did read your post and that is why I commented. confrontation is risky and I would agree with you. Where you lost me was your reference to 1in 10 are mentally ill but in no way does how people will react classify in the mental illness category. I think you are confused with personality. No biggie, just responding to a post. Moral to the story.......it's not wise to risk confrontation since reaction is something that is not easy to predict. Cheers, Dell

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It's part of the ownership experience. A jealous have-not plus your prize posession equals an idiot's get-back. I've had exotic cars that have had a milkshake dumped on the rear deck (Pantera), all 4 tires slashed (Lotus), and valve stem caps stolen (BMW 850). The world is full of idiots. AS

Doesn't even require an "exotic" car or a "nice" car. Many years ago, my wife had purchased her first new car after more than a year of hard savings to make the downpayment - a little yellow Renault R5 (not even a Turbo, just a plain R5). A few weeks later she left it in a shopping mall parking lot and came back 30 minutes later to find a pizza smeared all over the hood. The only thing that could have elicited any envy in that car was that it was new.

I'm envious of your blonde baby

that sucks but can't pull assault; trespass to chattel at best

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