Major ouch

Joel · 04-11-2004, 11:31 PM

Rock broke the driver's window while I was parked at work. Nothing stolen but damage estimates exceed $1k. I don't really have any enemies and I haven't pissed anyone off lately - I don't drive offensively or upset people on the freeway. I can't figure out why someone might do this. Just a random act of vandalism I suppose. I've heard of things like this happening to SUVs but not to "green" vehicles.

The majority of the expense goes towards replacing the scraped and damaged internal plastic pieces like the door moldings.

The damage

The object that caused the damage

Raenstoirm · 04-11-2004, 11:38 PM

Ouch!!!! Why would someone do that?!?!?!? :cry:

Brian · 04-12-2004, 12:09 AM

Sorry that happened. When ever I park my baby in a parking lot, even when it is in the last spot way out in the middle of nowhere, i worry about something like that hapening.

Brian

eak354 · 04-12-2004, 12:44 AM

sucks. i worry about getting keyed, hit and runned, or something like that. it could happen to anyone. :guns:

Brian · 04-12-2004, 12:48 AM

That is what I am too, worried about!!!

Bob Allen · 04-12-2004, 01:01 AM

Sorry to hear about your Prius. I've never understood vandalism except to imagine that there are people who are so disconnected from society and so sociopathic that damaging and sometimes destroying things to them is like skipping down a sidewalk is for us. I had the windshield on my Escort bashed in one evening; the lady at Speedy Auto Glass, three blocks from my house, told me that there were eight such incidents on the same night. Why? Did smashing windows "relieve the stress"? Do vandals believe that making life harder and less pleasant for someone else will help make their own misery less burdensome? I read that most vandals are teenage boys. You can bet they ain't happy campers.

FloridaShark · 04-12-2004, 07:29 AM

Two weeks ago here in Orlando we had some nut case take a bat to
over 40 cars at the parking garage of Rollins College. If you know any
thing about Rollins you'll know many of them were new and high priced
autos. They caught the guy thank God!! :guns:

Wolfman · 04-12-2004, 10:34 AM

People like this piss me off to no end. I'd love one time to catch one of these losers in the act, so that I could grind their faces up in the broken glass, and then pour bleach on 'em. :cussing:

**Danny** · 04-12-2004, 11:26 AM

:ahole:
:cussing:
:cussing:
:guns:
:x

Astroprius · 04-12-2004, 08:29 PM

Joel -

Hopefully this is just a random act. Bummer that it happened at work because you can't really not park there again, right? I fell pretty bad for you, and pretty exposed myself. :cry:

04-11-2004, 11:31 PM	#1
Joel Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 108 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Major ouch - Vandalism to my Prius =( Rock broke the driver's window while I was parked at work. Nothing stolen but damage estimates exceed $1k. I don't really have any enemies and I haven't pissed anyone off lately - I don't drive offensively or upset people on the freeway. I can't figure out why someone might do this. Just a random act of vandalism I suppose. I've heard of things like this happening to SUVs but not to "green" vehicles. The majority of the expense goes towards replacing the scraped and damaged internal plastic pieces like the door moldings. The damage The object that caused the damage

04-12-2004, 01:01 AM	#6
Bob Allen Captainbaba Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,254 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Sorry to hear about your Prius. I've never understood vandalism except to imagine that there are people who are so disconnected from society and so sociopathic that damaging and sometimes destroying things to them is like skipping down a sidewalk is for us. I had the windshield on my Escort bashed in one evening; the lady at Speedy Auto Glass, three blocks from my house, told me that there were eight such incidents on the same night. Why? Did smashing windows "relieve the stress"? Do vandals believe that making life harder and less pleasant for someone else will help make their own misery less burdensome? I read that most vandals are teenage boys. You can bet they ain't happy campers. __________________ :P Angel Flight Pilot

04-12-2004, 11:26 AM	#9
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04-11-2004, 11:38 PM	#2
Raenstoirm Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 179 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Ouch!!!! Why would someone do that?!?!?!? :cry:

04-12-2004, 12:09 AM	#3
Brian Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orange, California Posts: 479 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Sorry that happened. When ever I park my baby in a parking lot, even when it is in the last spot way out in the middle of nowhere, i worry about something like that hapening. Brian

04-12-2004, 12:44 AM	#4
eak354 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 420 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	sucks. i worry about getting keyed, hit and runned, or something like that. it could happen to anyone. :guns:

04-12-2004, 12:48 AM	#5
Brian Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orange, California Posts: 479 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	That is what I am too, worried about!!!

04-12-2004, 07:29 AM	#7
FloridaShark Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Orlando Florida Posts: 140 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Two weeks ago here in Orlando we had some nut case take a bat to over 40 cars at the parking garage of Rollins College. If you know any thing about Rollins you'll know many of them were new and high priced autos. They caught the guy thank God!! :guns:

04-12-2004, 10:34 AM	#8
Wolfman Moderator (on leave) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Paradise, TX Posts: 1,205 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	People like this piss me off to no end. I'd love one time to catch one of these losers in the act, so that I could grind their faces up in the broken glass, and then pour bleach on 'em. :cussing:

04-12-2004, 08:29 PM	#10
Astroprius Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 85 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Joel - Hopefully this is just a random act. Bummer that it happened at work because you can't really not park there again, right? I fell pretty bad for you, and pretty exposed myself. :cry: