Do you know where YOUR kids are?

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White95Max

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Because there are three young girls throwing handfuls of gravel at passing cars down the street from here. Someone please claim them. I saw one of them picking up a handful of stones as I was approaching, so I was purposely driving on the other side of the road as I passed. Good thing they throw like little girls too. I ran over a bunch of stones but my panels didn't get hit with any.



:grrr :grrr :furious:
 
:bat When I was going out to lunch yesterday at work the lawn guy was weed whacking the edges of the walk, so I waited for him to finish before going out. As I was driving out of the driveway, he was off to the side somewhere, and as I drove by I got hit by a rock...three chips right near the driver's door handle where I can eyeball them EVERY time I get in the car. This is the second time I've been nailed by a weed whacker-thrown rock from long distance. :( I guess I should be proud of my timing since I seem to drive by these guys just as they are launching.



The real problem is the ridiculous edging routine that all these landscapers go through now. They would tell you that they do it to make the beds/edges look neat, I think it's just to reduce the amount of grass they have to cut. We have one bed at work with bushes in it that gets bigger by about 2" per side every year...pretty soon we will just have a dirt lawn with two bushes in the middle of it. Anyway, they take a shovel and remove the grass from the edge of everything, beds, walks, etc., leaving this nice dry dirt groove that they can stick their weed whacker line into and hurl rocks out of and hit Autopian cars...



Sorry for the rant/thread jack.
 
Call the cops... that's what I would've done. But I am mean like that. I've yelled at people for spraying water near my car at a show once even.
 
Paul-sounds like the little punk at the park that was tossing a large rock on the paved path and letting it break, leaving chunks of smaller rocks everywhere (obviously not a very hard rock!) which is a real danger to all the people on bikes and skaters out there. The worst thing? His mom was watching and laughing about it. I ended up taking a pic of their license plate and forwarding it to the parks department.



Mike-I've noticed that the lawn guys seem to follow me around and always have their damn blowers out as I am finishing up. :mad:



One time I had just finished a BMW X5 when some lawn jockey with a weed wacker used it to cut the patch of grass by the window right in front of the X5 and sprayed grass clippings all over the X5. Before I could even walk over to yell at that jerk, the owner of the X5 who also happens to own the company came running out screaming at the clown and then at the supervisor, telling him the next time one of his workers does something stupid like that, the mowing service will immediately lose his business. The supervisor made his blower guy get all the grass off the X5 but I still had to QD the damn thing.
 
this topic kind of reminds me of the kids who keep riding their bikes and razor scooters up and down my driveway (two cars in the driveway) in between, and i ask them nicely not too. one of these days i know i'm going to hear or see a big scrape from the handle bars, etc. across the side of my car... :mad:
 
Scottwax said:
Paul-sounds like the little punk at the park that was tossing a large rock on the paved path and letting it break, leaving chunks of smaller rocks everywhere (obviously not a very hard rock!) which is a real danger to all the people on bikes and skaters out there. The worst thing? His mom was watching and laughing about it. I ended up taking a pic of their license plate and forwarding it to the parks department.



Mike-I've noticed that the lawn guys seem to follow me around and always have their damn blowers out as I am finishing up. :mad:



One time I had just finished a BMW X5 when some lawn jockey with a weed wacker used it to cut the patch of grass by the window right in front of the X5 and sprayed grass clippings all over the X5. Before I could even walk over to yell at that jerk, the owner of the X5 who also happens to own the company came running out screaming at the clown and then at the supervisor, telling him the next time one of his workers does something stupid like that, the mowing service will immediately lose his business. The supervisor made his blower guy get all the grass off the X5 but I still had to QD the damn thing.
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Boy that drives me nuts when parents either do not watch their kids or let them do something that they should not be. at least the lawn car guy got wht he deserved. man some people just do not give a crap about anybody's car. btw he was better off that you did not have to " handle " the situation :chuckle:
 
Last winter, some kids (10-12 year olds) were shoveling a parking lot and throwing the snow over their heads into the street and onto passing cars. A couple of cars in front of me got hit, kept going, and the kids got a big laugh. Well, as I went by they tried to hit me, I slammed on the brakes, pitched the car sideways across the road, jumped out (blocking traffic) and gave them hell. They said they weren't 'trying' to hit cars. BS. I got a lot of 'Yes Sir' and 'No Sir' answers from them. Whenever I drove by after that, they weren't flinging shovels full of snow on passing cars. I am sure the snow had plenty of rocks in it capable of breaking windshields, scratching cars or scaring a driver enough that they wrecked.
 
This sounds alot like the 2 or 3 kids that were throwing rocks at cars on the highway. Stupid thing is the video taped it. Each one of them is serving 5 years in jail for all the damage!!!! Serves them right...
 
I'll confess, I remember once many years ago when I was a little kid and with a few friends we threw mud balls at cars coming down the road from a spot where they couldn't see us as they approached. We hit a few cars and ducked back into the woods from a hill above the road where they wouldn't be able to see us. We could only see glimpses of approaching cars through some bushes. After a few cars, we tossed one mud ball when we saw another one coming, it turned out to be a cop with his windows open and the mud hit a spare outfit he had on a hanger in the back window. We freaked and ran through the woods to our neighborhood on the other side. We never had the nerve to go try again.



As an Autopian, I hang my head in shame. As a kid who never really grew up, I still chuckle occasionally.
 
I hear a lot of stories like this working at an automotive glass shop. What I've noticed lately (from the crazy stories that I get on a daily basis) is that when the kid's parents are confronted....They stand up for their kid and refuse to believe that their little angel could ever do something wrong. I'm hearing this time and time again....So how do you handle a situation like that? Paul, if the stone throwing hoodlums had hit your car, there is really NOTHING you can do about it. Everyone has done some stupid and inconsiderate things during their childhood years (god knows I have), but when my parents caught me....I really wished I hadnt done whatever it was that I did. Sorry for going a little off topic there.
 
It's not just little kids. A number of years ago I was driving down a road through the middle of the Clemson University campus. Near the dorms, there were students on both sides of the road pelting any car that went by. The problem was this was very wet snow, basically ice balls and they broke one of the mirrors on my car. They scattered quicker than 5 year olds when they saw what they had done :mad:
 
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