Hi All,

Just wanted to say that I had a strange experience today - had my current pool car vandalised with a brick through the rear windscreen at some point last night... :wonder:

What I am finding strange is that I live in a nice market town on the edge of the Chiltern hills on a quiet residential (mainly retired street) and haven't antagonised anyone (that I know of) and it's a nondescript low spec Black Mondeo TDCI! The main thanks that I am giving today is that the repair has been done on the company insurance and I don't have to pay any excess on the £773 bill .

No idea when this happened but my neighbour may have heard a 'bang / thump' at around 9pm - could have been then? I just wondered whether anyone else has ever experienced anything like this - makes me wonder and think that this is a bit of a mad world, I have spent most of the day laughing about how strange things are. I should have got a photograph of the brick on the parcel shelf but I forgot - I have kept it as a souvenir though .

being picky, but I'd you take the car home its a company car not a pool car as far as the taxman is concerned.

Why is a rear window £778? We has a fleet mpv with tinted glass done for £400 and the glass guy said that was one of the most expensive he'd ever done in 20 years.

being picky, but I'd you take the car home its a company car not a pool car as far as the taxman is concerned.

Why is a rear window £778? We has a fleet mpv with tinted glass done for £400 and the glass guy said that was one of the most expensive he'd ever done in 20 years.

Hi Gadgetman - indeed it's registered as a Company Car with the tax man - it's just that it's a 'Pool Car' as far as work term it... I had a Prius before and at least the Mondeo is an improvement :yes:

No idea why he was saying it had come to that much but maybe it was because of the requirement to get it done today and because they were already told that it was a Company lease... it was the rear screen if that makes any difference?

....because they couldn't find a whole one?

Sorry

....because they couldn't find a whole one?

Sorry

Love it, that made me laugh out loud...

Any idea where the half brick came from? Was there a chance it was lying around near the car or would the scroat have had to bring it with them?

Had he/she picked it up whilst passing and picked your car at random then I guess it's simply a case of the wrong place at the wrong time. If the perpetrator has brought it with them with the sole purpose of smashing it into a car then I would be more inclined to think you were specifically targeted for some reason?

Have you alerted the Police?

doubt you have antaganised anyone, this sort of thing is usually random acts of mindless violence.... saldy.. I depair about the state of our sociaty sometimes...

The brick came from a property that is being gutted opposite us... All the required channels have been followed but there won't be any investigation... the world is a strange place indeed for people to do this...

Some people are just ****s. And some perfectly nice people turn nasty with a drink.

Your car was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Some people are just ****s. And some perfectly nice people turn nasty with a drink.

Your car was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

+1, had the same happen to a Fiesta of mine many years ago :(

Mindless morons, as for the £700 bill, someones having a laugh.

I had someone chuck a traffic cone through the front bay window of my house some years ago! Naturally you spend ages thinking through people who you might have p*ssed off and why would someone do it, but in my case I think it came down to my house being on a route loads of people used to walk back from town on a Friday night, and it happened to be the house the roadworks were outside. Some people are just tw@ts I'm afraid.

We had a strange one a few years ago.

My sons car was parked in a side road, not far from the junction with the main road which is a bit of a hill.

Someone broke into a car on the main road and let the handbrake off. It rolled down the hill and crashed into my lads car smashing the wing, headlight and damaging one of the alloys as it pushed his car into the kerb.

We never found out who did it but the insurance wrote the other car off as it was an old Micra worth about £500

It certainly made the claim interesting.... Name and address of the other driver?.?

We had a strange one a few years ago.

My sons car was parked in a side road, not far from the junction with the main road which is a bit of a hill.

Someone broke into a car on the main road and let the handbrake off. It rolled down the hill and crashed into my lads car smashing the wing, headlight and damaging one of the alloys as it pushed his car into the kerb.

We never found out who did it but the insurance wrote the other car off as it was an old Micra worth about £500

Similar happened to my mums old Montego when she was on holiday in Berwick on Tweed in the early 90s. Someone broke into her car during the night, let the handbrake off and let it roll off the road and down a very steep hillside. It landed on its roof on a football pitch at the bottom and made the front page of the local paper as a match had to be postponed because of it! She was not at all amused as she had to struggle home on the train with all her luggage and a toolbox that had been in the boot. All the more annoying was that she had paid about £500 in repairs to get it through its MOT the week before. Needless to say she's never been back to Berwick since!

Hi All,

Just wanted to say that I had a strange experience today - had my current pool car vandalised with a brick through the rear windscreen at some point last night... :wonder:

What I am finding strange is that I live in a nice market town on the edge of the Chiltern hills on a quiet residential (mainly retired street) and haven't antagonised anyone (that I know of) and it's a nondescript low spec Black Mondeo TDCI! The main thanks that I am giving today is that the repair has been done on the company insurance and I don't have to pay any excess on the £773 bill .

No idea when this happened but my neighbour may have heard a 'bang / thump' at around 9pm - could have been then? I just wondered whether anyone else has ever experienced anything like this - makes me wonder and think that this is a bit of a mad world, I have spent most of the day laughing about how strange things are. I should have got a photograph of the brick on the parcel shelf but I forgot - I have kept it as a souvenir though .

Obviously, some areas have more trouble than others but no area is a guarantee of being trouble free these days I'm afraid.

I used to live in a quiet little village in a little detached cottage with a long driveway. One night the nearest neighbours son had a 'parents away' party. One of his guests left a small bottle of French lager on my drive & a metal deep score along the whole of one side of my MR2 which was parked at the bottom of it.

A decade before that, I lived in another quiet village in a lane sprinkled with expensive houses. One of the neighbours had both of there cars torched on their drive in front of there lounge windows!!

I've been the victim of some mindless vandalism recently and its very annoying. I don't believe I have done anything to upset anyone either. A garages courtesy car got damaged - either at work or at a restaurant, the rear near side light cluster was smashed and then a large dent and scratch was left on the rear wing. It looked like a motor bike or push bike had damaged it.

I had similar damage to my car done as well, Im unsure when that happened, it could have been at work but the rear wing is scratched and dented in a similar place to the courtesy car. People at work thought it might be kids riding bikes around the car park.

Last Christmas someone damaged a friends car (nicked the private plates), my mother had her rear wiper stolen :wonder: , during the bad weather when we couldnt get our cars home, so left them on the main road. :( And at Christmas as well, just proves some people have no thought at all.

There are some mindless stupid people out there!

If you let people off with the little things, they'll think they can get away with anything and do more.

Basically it's time we realised that actually people need to understand discipline and respect again.

Earlier this year the windscreen place next door to us had an influx of local taxis in which had numerous windows smashed. They must have have 20 or 30 cars, mainly Octavias in and some of the same cars in 3 or 4 times. It was so bad at one point that the glass wholesaler ran out of Octavia door glasses. They retreived enough bricks and boulders from the boots to start a rockery.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/217561-police-knocking-on-my-dorr-at-320am/page__p__2560257__hl__police+knocking+on+my+door__fromsearch__1#entry2560257

happened to my recently

someone ripped off the rather sturdy windscreen wipers off the front of my dads mercedes sprinter LWB this week too.

and i live in a nice area