Keying cars

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Do you ever do this when you are outraged?

I've done this at my apartment complex (at night of course) when I come back from a long, rough day and can't find a parking spot because there are multiple cars without parking permits parked in all crazy directions. And there's nothing like a parking lot full of cars parked every which way to piss me off in the extreme. So I've gone through and keyed all the cars without parking permits.

Do sensory overload and frustration ever cause you to do sociopathic things like this?

I can have thoughts of doing similar things, but I would never actually go through with it, no.

Not me. I am too rule bound for something like that.

I might think it. But I would not do it.

Tyri0n you are very naughty. I don't approve. Even though some people do deserve it.

I am. I rarely follow rules at all when I don't foresee consequences. I have 9 unpaid parking tickets from before I changed my registration after I bought a second-hand car. I looked online and they weren't tied to my name, so I'm like , f**k it, I'm not paying them.

Hell no. I wouldn't want my own car to get keyed so why would I do it to someone else? I wouldn't even do it to my enemy's car either because would I want want of them to do it to mine?

No. I don't act out mischievously when angry. I've put my fist through things though. When I come across an as*hole I have to immediately get away from them for fear of what I could do.

Most apartment complexes have rules about parking in reserved spaces. The best thing you could have done is contact your landlord and they would've had the legally parked cars towed. I had a problem with that at one time and once they got towed. It never happened again.

What's the big deal about keying cars anyway? It's just a scratch.

Its vandalism. One does not have the right to willfully flamage the property of another.

<--- Lacks the cajones to do that.

Well I don't believe in private property rights. Rich peoplr get away with breaking the law and theft all the time in the US. I'd never do anything to hurt a member of the working class though. If the car looks like it belongs to a poor or middle class person, I wouldn't touch it

Live in housing area of primarily young people near a very good university, so anyone with a Mercedes is likely a rich as*hole from the suburbs who's parents own a bank (I actually had to buy a car for my dad once). I don't know why people would park there who don't have a permit. I guess it's the same gated community mentality that killed Trayvon Martin

Last edited by Tyri0n on 16 Mar 2013, 8:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Years ago, I lived in an apartment complex near the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Someone kept parking in my assigned parking place. I tried to get the tow companies to tow the vehicle, but they refused to do so without the apartment complex managers okay and the manager of the apartment complex refused to do so.

Late one night I pulled in on my Triumph Bonneville motorcycle and found this other vehicle there. Out of exasperation, I did a pretty good burnout that probably woke quite a few people up. When I pulled out on the street to park, the police were waiting. It turned out that they just happened to be driving by and heard all the racket I was making. I ended up with an excessive noise citation out of that. I forget what it ended up costing me.

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Anyway, if you want to screw with them without causing lasting damage, get some good grease like you would use to grease the bearings in your car and smear that on their windshields. If they try to wipe it off with their hands, they are going to get grease all over them and will have to go somewhere and wash it off. If they try to use their windshield wipers to clear the window, all they end up doing is smearing it around more. They are going to need a good detergent to remove the grease -- anything else is useless. And it doesn't do any permanent damage to the cars.

Just don't get caught doing it.

Belief does not justify crime.

Criminals belong in jail.

My younger brother had a number of parking tickets as a freshman in college which he didn't pay. He hadn't registered the vehicle so they didn't tie the parking tickets to his name.

The next year he decided to register it. I told him that when he registered it, the campus police would have an easy time going after him for all those unpaid parking tickets and suggested an approach to obfuscate the matter. I had him lose the rear license plate and then go to the county courthouse and request a replacement. Since they couldn't issue just the back plate with the same license plate number, they issued him new plates with a completely different number.

Sure enough, the campus police never did collect on those unpaid parking tickets.

A little more than thirty years ago, I had one boss who had spent some time living in South America. He told me that where he lived when he was in South America, the police had a very effective way to discourage minor parking violations -- they had some kind of really really really really sticky stickers that they would apply to the windshields. Also, the stickers would tear relatively easily. According to him, it could take an hour or two of hard work just to get the stickers back off of the windshields.