Would you key a car?

RiderOnTheStorm · 14-06-2006 8:59am #1

I know there are threads here complainging about people keying / scratching cars delib (shoot them! no hang them! no hang them then shoot them!) but is there ever a case for venting your spleen on another persons car? I have often felt tempted (and resisted so far) to leave a 'note' on a car thats parked in a disabled spot (and no disabled card in the window)..... is ignorance a disability?
As I have said, I have resisited so far, cause there is always the chance that it is a genuine disabled person but they have misplaced the card.

KTRIC · 14-06-2006 9:00am

To be honest its not really your place to enforce the law.

Kinetic^ · 14-06-2006 9:01am

Under no circumstances would I key a car, it can be very expensive to fix. For instance, if somebody was parked in my spot in my apartment I'd block them in tp put them out, like they did to me.

Seth Brundle · 14-06-2006 9:43am

How would you know it was illegally parked? It doesn't need a sticker AFAIK as the disabled person may be a passenger. There were discussions about this recently in the Irish Times where Dublin City COuncil wanted to change the system.
Anyhow, why would you break the law in a bid to enforce it - you are not a garda, are you?.

Pulp Fiction wrote:

Lance: Still got your Malibu?
Vincent: Aw, man. You know what some ****er did the other day?
Lance: What?
Vincent: ****ing keyed it.
Lance: Oh, man, that's ****ed up.
Vincent: Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of **** ****ed with it.
Lance: They should be ****ing killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
Vincent: Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it.
Lance: What a ****er!
Vincent: What's more chicken**** than ****ing with a man's automobile? I mean, don't **** with another man's vehicle.
Lance: You don't do it.
Vincent: It's just against the rules.

prospect · 14-06-2006 9:59am

kbannon wrote:

How would you know it was illegally parked? It doesn't need a sticker AFAIK as the disabled person may be a passenger.

Really?
I thought the opposite was true! Even if the car was adapted for a disabled person, and the driver is in a wheelchair, I still thought they had to have a sticker?

In fact, I am fairly sure I heard of a guy who had broken both his legs in an industrial accident, and his wife parked in a disabled space, (they had no sticker), and the car was clamped. Even when they arrived back, he was in a wheelchair with both legs in casts, they wouldn;t remove the clamp?

Seth Brundle · 14-06-2006 10:10am

Apologies - Im incorrect.
It was that people were abusing the permit system.
Irish Times Article - Dublin City Council plans to charge disabled for parking
Irish Times Article - Council to tackle parking 'abuse'

prospect · 14-06-2006 10:18am

Love that Pulp fiction Quote, particularly the bit:

"It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it."

That is exactly how I feel when some azzhole puts a dent in my car in a carpark, especially those annoying door dinges.

crosstownk · 14-06-2006 10:25am

kbannon wrote:

How would you know it was illegally parked? It doesn't need a sticker AFAIK as the disabled person may be a passenger.

You must have the correct permit - otherwise it would be a free-for-all. Permits are issued by the Irish Wheelchair Assoc, AFAIK.

Seth Brundle · 14-06-2006 10:44am

According to one of the articles, the IWA claim that some GPs are liberally interpreting the medical criteria

14-06-2006 11:54am

When I had a summer job in woodies, I parked my car in the public car park.

One evening there was a rant of a note left on my car telling me how bad my parking was and how inconsiderate to people with children it was.

The funny thing is my car was parked there all day she chose to park beside me!

Wing Walker · 14-06-2006 12:05pm

My car has been keyed and it's probably the most annoying thing that can happen. I absolutely hate it and I don't think I'd ever do it to somebody else's car.

Whatever about public roads, I thought that there is nothing (legal) to stop people parking in disabled spots, they're there more as a courtesy than anything else? Even if the a cark park is jammers, I park a mile away from the shop rather than park in a disabled spot. Just the way I am I suppose.

IMO, anyone that doesn't require their use, shouldn't park in them. If they do, then I'm sure that karma will come into play somewhere down the line.

qz · 14-06-2006 12:06pm

I have no respect for people that fúck with other people's cars. Just pure hatred. There is never a good enough reason to key another person's car.

Judging by the poll results, I'm glad others here agree with me.

andrew_ireland · 14-06-2006 12:09pm

No way would I key a car - such a knackery thing to do! The eejits in the Bray Town Council have allocated a few parking spaces as a disabled zone but didn't bother marking them properly - the symbols look like hieroglyphics sprayed by a 3yr old.

Me ma leaves notes on cars that just park-up in her parking space outside her house and go off up the town for the day. Always know there's gonne be trouble when mammy takes out the pen and paper!

Anan1 · 14-06-2006 12:12pm

ronoc wrote:

When I had a summer job in woodies, I parked my car in the public car park.

One evening there was a rant of a note left on my car telling me how bad my parking was and how inconsiderate to people with children it was.

The funny thing is my car was parked there all day she chose to park beside me!

How was your car parked?

mloc123 · 14-06-2006 12:12pm

Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

Under no circumstances would I key a car, it can be very expensive to fix. For instance, if somebody was parked in my spot in my apartment I'd block them in tp put them out, like they did to me.

I did this once, I was working nights at the time and came home to find somebody had taken the last "private parking" spot. Blocked her in and came down an hour later, she was going mad saying she had called the gaurds. I said fine sure I'll hold on for them her and sat in my car, it was priceless and probably the wrong thing to do but still.

Wouldn't key a car tho' thats a right ****ter.

Eoin · 14-06-2006 12:16pm

crosstownk wrote:

You must have the correct permit - otherwise it would be a free-for-all. Permits are issued by the Irish Wheelchair Assoc, AFAIK.

And the Disabled Drivers Association, link - one thing to remember as has been pointed out, that it may be the passenger who is disabled or the driver may have any number of ailments that may not be obvious - e.g. respiratory illnesses.

gyppo · 14-06-2006 12:21pm

I was in Tullamore last year, in O'Connor Square, and saw a young lady drive into a disabled car space. She then opened the glovebox, placed a disabled permit on the dashboard, got out of the car, locked the door, and walked away!

As she was walking away, I challenged her as to her right to park in the disabled space. After going a very bright red, she told me that a family member was disabled, hence the permit, and her right to park there. I disputed this right with her, and when I suggested going over to the copshop across the road to clarify this, she got back into her car, and left there fairly sharpish. Funny, my ears felt very red for some time afterwards!!

As far as I'm concerned, if she was collecting a disabled person, then fair enough. To me, it looked like she was toddling off to her favourite shops, and tough s*** if a genuine disabled driver needed to use this space.

Eoin · 14-06-2006 12:27pm

gyppo wrote:

I was in Tullamore last year, in O'Connor Square, and saw a young lady drive into a disabled car space. She then opened the glovebox, placed a disabled permit on the dashboard, got out of the car, locked the door, and walked away!

As she was walking away, I challenged her as to her right to park in the disabled space. After going a very bright red, she told me that a family member was disabled, hence the permit, and her right to park there. I disputed this right with her, and when I suggested going over to the copshop across the road to clarify this, she got back into her car, and left there fairly sharpish. Funny, my ears felt very red for some time afterwards!!

As far as I'm concerned, if she was collecting a disabled person, then fair enough. To me, it looked like she was toddling off to her favourite shops, and tough s*** if a genuine disabled driver needed to use this space.

Fair enough that she didn't actually need the permit, but don't assume that everyone with a permit who can walk isn't disabled in another way - you may have been the one going bright red if she had told you she had an illness that fully justified a permit.

michaelanthony · 14-06-2006 12:28pm

Anyone who keys a car is a c u n t .

gyppo · 14-06-2006 12:32pm

I fully agree with you Eoin.
It was the way that she did it that made me smell a rat. If she was genuine, why would she have the permit in the glovebox. It would be more logical to have the permit stuck to the window on a permanent basis, if she was genuine.

Orlee · 14-06-2006 12:33pm

I work in a shop that has a disabled space outside it and nothing grinds my gears more then biddy parking in it just cause it's close to the chemist door!!! Really, peoples ignorance puts years on me.:mad: It's such a regular occurance and If you do say it to anyone they get fairly angry at my CHEEK to question them.

Puteq · 14-06-2006 1:57pm

ronoc wrote:

When I had a summer job in woodies, I parked my car in the public car park.

One evening there was a rant of a note left on my car telling me how bad my parking was and how inconsiderate to people with children it was.

The funny thing is my car was parked there all day she chose to park beside me!

I dont know since I wasn't there, but I would tend to agree with someone making an issue out of crap parking, it is one of my major gripes about people when they park badly (and end up taking 2 spots for their car because of their own inability to park). I am not accusing you of doing this ronoc since like I say I was not there - but there are people who do this sort of selfish parking and it is really annoying so they do deserve to have a note on their car giving out when they get back.

However to get back on topic, I agree with everyone else, there is NEVER a reason for keying someones car, it is a cowardly thing to do. If you have a problem with someone you tell them to their face (or at least in a note if you cant be arsed waiting for them to show up), but if you are too chicken$hit to do that then go home and forget about it.