What's wrong with people?!

Nightfall
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Someone busted the side mirror on my car today. WTF ever happened to having some integrity and leaving a note with your contact info? /rant
afterburnt wrote: »
They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Someone busted the side mirror on my car today. WTF ever happened to having some integrity and leaving a note with your contact info? /rant

    Those folks are few and far between im afraid. Sorry about your mirror. Gotta pay the deductable with the chance of rates going up. Not right.
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,165
    Some idiots go around and break these just for kicks. Wtf... Bunch of crap
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  • Nightfall
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    deronb1 wrote: »
    Those folks are few and far between im afraid. Sorry about your mirror. Gotta pay the deductable with the chance of rates going up. Not right.

    Back a few years ago the same thing happened with the side mirror on my Ford Exploder. The guy left a note with all his info and an apology. I called him up to tell him not to worry about it, a sort of good karma for him for being honest.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • daddyjt
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    Check eBay for replacement parts, if your rig is older than about 5years. Saved a ton on misc body parts to fix up my son's Ranger... I was AMAZED at how many parts are available, and at really good prices.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    It's possible that the person wasn't even aware that it happened, stuff sticking out of the bed of a truck or a trailer might have done the damage. Or not.
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,597
    94 million people not working. Lowest labor participation percentage in history. People have backed into my wife's van twice in two years. No note ,nothing. As hard as it was hit ,they knew! I like to think -Karmas a ****! Good luck. D
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Someone busted the side mirror on my car today. WTF ever happened to having some integrity and leaving a note with your contact info? /rant

    Someone did that to my son's truck just last week, and kept on going!! Sad
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,920
    I would bet the perpetrators listen to rap.....lol. Seriously, people just suck.
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  • tonyb
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    WagnerRC wrote: »
    Some idiots go around and break these just for kicks. Wtf... Bunch of crap

    Yep....my brother in-law had a problem with kids in his neighborhood knocking off mailboxes with a baseball bat.

    So he made a pole and box out of steel and sunk it in the ground 3 feet with concrete around it. He only wished he could have seen that baseball bat come back and hit the little bastage in the face next time he tried.
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  • jflail2
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    Dabutcher wrote: »
    94 million people not working. Lowest labor participation percentage in history. People have backed into my wife's van twice in two years. No note ,nothing. As hard as it was hit ,they knew! I like to think -Karmas a ****! Good luck. D

    We're at the lowest participation rate since 1978. Literally every year prior to that is below where we are now.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited September 2015
    Sorry! One of my colleagues had her car sideswiped in the Boston area about a year ago. It was night and the external damage was not fully apparent but the perpetrator had damaged the suspension and bent the rods on that side of the car so it was NOT possible to drive.

    Of course, having lived in NYC years ago, I've had plates stolen, my car broken into, and a car stolen! But, hey, that was Manhattan in the '80s! You kinda expect that if you park your car on the street.

    Hope your insurance covers that!

    Now if only we could get the white collar boys on Wall Street to leave notes when they rape and pillage our accounts! Never happen!
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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,337
    I saw a Rockford Files episode once, where a guy hits Rockford's car in the parking lot, pulls out a note, writes something and leaves it under the windshield before driving off.

    The note read "I just hit your car. People are watching. They think I am leaving you my name and number. I'm not".
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  • Kurt300
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    I was stopped at a traffic light in DC in my first Boxster, when an old pick up in front of me hits his gas and BACKS UP, striking and damaging the front of my car.

    Guy gets out, looks at the significant damage, and says to me "it's only a car". He was uninsured. I let him live. And paid the $500 deductible to get it fixed.

    People fall all over the spectrum. CS Lewis once wrote (paraphrasing) "To be a man is enough to bow the head of the mightiest king in shame, and yet lift the head of the lowliest beggar in honor." But that guy and your coward/fleer are on the "dirtbag" side of the spectrum. :)
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  • Mikey081057
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    Everybody thinks it's a good idea to get away with whatever you can. Jeez I don't understand why... Not like they have any bad examples of people who lie to get away with things in the news...Walt Duflock?
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  • afterburnt
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    "It is only illegal if you get caught"
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  • [Deleted User]
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    You have every right to be mad. The way I see it however, you are lucky you didn't get run over.
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  • Nightfall
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    rednedtugent wrote: »
    You have every right to be mad. The way I see it however, you are lucky you didn't get run over.

    I'm the only one I know IRL that thinks like this. A lot of times when people ask me how I'm doing I respond "I woke up today, so it's off to a great start!" :)
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • voltz
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    I remember the day my Fiancee passed away, when I walked out to my truck in the parking lot of the hospital, someone had ripped the mirror off my truck.... It actually made me chuckle a little and It didn't even bother me at the time! I just thought that's Life for ya!
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  • gudnoyez
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    What gets me is as..oles with shopping carts even if there is a shopping cart corral next to where they park some still seem to just push them up onto the next car next to them.
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  • [Deleted User]
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    man, that is tough. :/
    voltz wrote: »
    I remember the day my Fiancee passed away, when I walked out to my truck in the parking lot of the hospital, someone had ripped the mirror off my truck.... It actually made me chuckle a little and It didn't even bother me at the time! I just thought that's Life for ya!

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  • Nightfall
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    gudnoyez wrote: »
    What gets me is as..oles with shopping carts even if there is a shopping cart corral next to where they park some still seem to just push them up onto the next car next to them.

    When I see people do that I love to grab their cart and walk it all the way back inside while staring at them.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • [Deleted User]
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    Sounds like you are fun to go shopping with! :)
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    What gets me is as..oles with shopping carts even if there is a shopping cart corral next to where they park some still seem to just push them up onto the next car next to them.

    When I see people do that I love to grab their cart and walk it all the way back inside while staring at them.

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,586
    Most people are idiots.
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  • Kurt300
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    Joey_V wrote: »
    Most people are idiots.

    Disagree. But the idiots are much more noticeable.

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  • tonyb
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    Mikey081057 wrote: »
    Everybody thinks it's a good idea to get away with whatever you can. Jeez I don't understand why... Not like they have any bad examples of people who lie to get away with things in the news...Walt Duflock?

    Good observation, isn't that what todays society teaches though ?

    Personal responsibility, morals, faith, honor, integrity.....words you probably won't hear on any college campus these days.

    Instead they are taught to buck the system, how to work the system to their benefit. How to obtain things for free, use the victim mentality to their benefit, and cry wolf where none exists. How to use social media to demonize those who don't agree.

    The last 2 paragraphs outline the differences between the world I grew up in, and todays. Not entirely of course, but a rough outline.
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  • kevhed72
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    This is an example why all my kids on working towards Eagle Scout. Which reminds me, I get to build cooking fires for cub scouts this Saturday :p
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