Lewis93
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So at the minute I'm pretty bored and thought I'd share a story that happened a couple of weeks ago.
My neighbour purposely reversed his piece of trash Alfa Romeo into my parked car.
It started out when he bought two kittens just before Christmas, living in North Yorkshire we had quite bad snow and flooding over the Christmas week and this guy decided to abandon his cats into the street as they didn't get on with his dog. We kept seeing people post photos of them on our local Facebook page asking who's they were. Late one night I was doing some bits and pieces in the garage, came inside the house for 5 minutes, on my return back into the garage there was a bag of sealed dog food ripped open and the bag was shaking. Inside I found a kitten shaking and almost dead, we fed it and warmed it up after posting on the said group that we had the cat in our house if the owners would like to collect it. My wife wrote on the post "maybe you could keep it inside a little more now", that's all. The lovely chap who owns the cat came to collect it, said thanks then returned two minutes later screaming about how dare we say he can't look after his pets.
The next day my little girl answered the door to her friend and their dog not on a lead ran straight into our house, did a loop of the whole of the downstairs until I threw it out. Meanwhile the wife is stood in the middle of our road just staring into the house as the dog has a free for all. 15 minutes later we went over as pleasant as could be and said we would like to talk to you about what your dog just did, which was this...
She said oh yes I was just about to come and clean that, do you mind if I wait until my husband gets home as we have a baby (about 6 months old). We obviously agreed as you can't leave a baby on it's own, 5 minutes later she knocks on the door with a mop bucket full of bleach, no husband at home yet. She asked me to watch her children out of our living room window as they are directly opposite us. Part way through she asked if I could see her children and I said I can see your elder boy but I can't see the baby, it might be choking or something if you want to do it later? She said that's fine I will be done soon.
Anyway, we ended up ringing the RSPCA as the cats were now killing rabbits from the field behind our house and eating them in the street to survive whilst constantly trying to get back in our house.
He kicked off rotten about this, tried to drag me and my wife out the house to the point where we had to ring the police.
2 months or so down the line after nothing more was said I park my car length ways across the back of my drive as opposed to the turning circle at the end of the street, his car hasn't moved for about 5 weeks previous to this and hadn't moved that day. Within 15 minutes of the car behind there his hand brake "failed". Only by chance did I see him outside as I left my phone in the car, going through the passenger door to get it I didn't even see the damage. He said "oi whats your name, I've just smashed into your car".
I rang Andy (integrastella) straight away before even speaking to him after seeing the damage and he said he would give me a door for £75, I went back over the road and said instead of going through the insurance as they will probably write my car off due to it being a Japanese import I can get a door for £200 (taking into account fuel costs etc to collect the door). He said I don't care and slammed the door in my face.
Pictures of damage...
So that looks pretty bad but thankfully it was just the door and wing mirror, no smashed glass or further damage.
After getting off the phone to my insurance company and having his details they told me because I have legal cover it was a possibility to buy parts/pay for repairs myself and claim it back from his insurance. Happy with that!
New door on...
New wing mirror, slightly different coloured championship white to my car. :xaiweb3:
New window deflectors, check!
Now my car looks lovely with the blue wing mirror, no fitted window deflectors and no door card as the speaker hole needs drilling as I have upgraded door speakers I'm just waiting for the insurance to pay out so I can get the car into the body shop and have all the trims fitted and the whole of that side resprayed to make sure the colour match is spot on! That's £780 I didn't really want to fork out myself. I feel the car is now better than it was before due to new window deflectors and a fresh side of paint. Hopefully his insurance premium goes through the roof.
My neighbour purposely reversed his piece of trash Alfa Romeo into my parked car.
It started out when he bought two kittens just before Christmas, living in North Yorkshire we had quite bad snow and flooding over the Christmas week and this guy decided to abandon his cats into the street as they didn't get on with his dog. We kept seeing people post photos of them on our local Facebook page asking who's they were. Late one night I was doing some bits and pieces in the garage, came inside the house for 5 minutes, on my return back into the garage there was a bag of sealed dog food ripped open and the bag was shaking. Inside I found a kitten shaking and almost dead, we fed it and warmed it up after posting on the said group that we had the cat in our house if the owners would like to collect it. My wife wrote on the post "maybe you could keep it inside a little more now", that's all. The lovely chap who owns the cat came to collect it, said thanks then returned two minutes later screaming about how dare we say he can't look after his pets.
The next day my little girl answered the door to her friend and their dog not on a lead ran straight into our house, did a loop of the whole of the downstairs until I threw it out. Meanwhile the wife is stood in the middle of our road just staring into the house as the dog has a free for all. 15 minutes later we went over as pleasant as could be and said we would like to talk to you about what your dog just did, which was this...
She said oh yes I was just about to come and clean that, do you mind if I wait until my husband gets home as we have a baby (about 6 months old). We obviously agreed as you can't leave a baby on it's own, 5 minutes later she knocks on the door with a mop bucket full of bleach, no husband at home yet. She asked me to watch her children out of our living room window as they are directly opposite us. Part way through she asked if I could see her children and I said I can see your elder boy but I can't see the baby, it might be choking or something if you want to do it later? She said that's fine I will be done soon.
Anyway, we ended up ringing the RSPCA as the cats were now killing rabbits from the field behind our house and eating them in the street to survive whilst constantly trying to get back in our house.
He kicked off rotten about this, tried to drag me and my wife out the house to the point where we had to ring the police.
2 months or so down the line after nothing more was said I park my car length ways across the back of my drive as opposed to the turning circle at the end of the street, his car hasn't moved for about 5 weeks previous to this and hadn't moved that day. Within 15 minutes of the car behind there his hand brake "failed". Only by chance did I see him outside as I left my phone in the car, going through the passenger door to get it I didn't even see the damage. He said "oi whats your name, I've just smashed into your car".
I rang Andy (integrastella) straight away before even speaking to him after seeing the damage and he said he would give me a door for £75, I went back over the road and said instead of going through the insurance as they will probably write my car off due to it being a Japanese import I can get a door for £200 (taking into account fuel costs etc to collect the door). He said I don't care and slammed the door in my face.
Pictures of damage...
So that looks pretty bad but thankfully it was just the door and wing mirror, no smashed glass or further damage.
After getting off the phone to my insurance company and having his details they told me because I have legal cover it was a possibility to buy parts/pay for repairs myself and claim it back from his insurance. Happy with that!
New door on...
New wing mirror, slightly different coloured championship white to my car. :xaiweb3:
New window deflectors, check!
Now my car looks lovely with the blue wing mirror, no fitted window deflectors and no door card as the speaker hole needs drilling as I have upgraded door speakers I'm just waiting for the insurance to pay out so I can get the car into the body shop and have all the trims fitted and the whole of that side resprayed to make sure the colour match is spot on! That's £780 I didn't really want to fork out myself. I feel the car is now better than it was before due to new window deflectors and a fresh side of paint. Hopefully his insurance premium goes through the roof.
