Figures....

[Tumuerte]

So, I work the offshift and sleep through most of the morning and early afternoon depending on how tired I am.

So I get up today at 4pm, err, yesterday... whatever, to a knock on the bedroom door. "Hey, are you up?" I'm like, "now I am, what's up?". She replies, "uh, you may want to take a look at this...". I put some clothes on and rush out. I tell her "look at what exactly?". "The back of your car.."

.... some background, which is probably common around this forum. I'm what you call a 'perfectionist'. I'm the guy who parks at the outskirts of the parking lot and make the 1.2mile trek to the grocery store in fear of idiots. I'm the guy that when I go to eat at a fast-food restaurant park and seat in such a way that I can see my car while munching on my food. You get the idea?

Back to the story. I had parked, like I always park, off the street, onto my two car driveway, closest to my garage door. This is to avoid having the occassional kid doing speed wobbles on his bicycle and crashing into my car.

I rush out barefoot to see what the fuss was about. I look at my rear bumper and on its driver's side it had paint from another car on it masking some deep gouges. I'm like "friggin' great, how did this happen?". To this she replies, "there was this lady that had a green van that parked there this morning; knocked on the door, didn't recognize me when I opened the door, said she had the wrong house and left.

I tell her, "Seriously? I go through all sorts of trouble to stay away from idiots just for one to come right to my house and hit my car".

Arghhh, I cleaned the area, most of the paint appeared to come off. I took out some polish and tried to make the best of it. It still looks like garbage. I'll take a shot of it when I can... I'm still reeling from the whole thing...

[azbobbybooshay10]

Damn dude that's some bull****. Hopefully you can get it cleaned up good with a little more time polishing or something.

[2kBlackCatGurl]

I'd file a police report. That's a hit and run.

[Tumuerte]

@az. Yeah, I hope with a little more time I can buff most of it out.

@2kB. I don't have any more to go on but a lady driving a green van.

[Tygerr]

@az. Yeah, I hope with a little more time I can buff most of it out.

@2kB. I don't have any more to go on but a lady driving a green van.

Sorry to hear man but your insurance should cover something like that.

[iceberg65]

I don't know about the insurance policies there but here you need to have collision to cover that type of damage (and would still have to pay the deductible); I have comprehensive (fire theft vandalism), and PLPD (basic driving insurance); and am not covered if someone hits my car and runs. I've had similar run in's..the odd door ding, one day I came out to a smashed tail light and another I had a nice yellow scuff on my front bumper along with some bad spidering in the paint.

Its ****ty and ruins your day. Minor damage is hard to track down the other vehicle too because generally their vehicle doesnt stand out as damaged so theres nothing visually to blatantly look for.

[BlackBetty]

That's bull****. I agree with it being a hit and run.

Good luck with the repairs, keep us posted!

[Tumuerte]

Um.. yeah, here's a shot of the area that was hit. This was post the quick hand buff. I'm sure the gouges won't come out, but I got some of the surface scratches that were there before.

[marinofan]

Actually the police could do a search for all green mini vans, and then with that search reduce the options to minivans within your area or people that have to drive though your area, narrow that down by the green minivans with female drivers and you should have a small pool of people to pick from and find out who did it.

Call Charlie Epps he could have it figured out in a few hours with a 86-97% probability of the one minivan.

[iceberg65]

but the police most likley would not put that kind of effort into finding the person for such minor damages.

I once gave a report TELLING the police that a stolen amplifier was at a pawn shop. They did nothing about it to my knowledge; the amp was still there for months then it sold. It wasn't a good amp or anything; it would have been good to catch the guy pawning stolen items though.