Poor 350z (autopian nightmare)

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mcnab

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I came accross this on one of the sites I frequent, and couldn't believe me eyes. It really gets under my skin to see what this world is coming to. That people have this much disrespect for other peoples property.



Apparently the kid who did this "wanted to see the look on his face when he saw what happened to his car".



It's an oil based paint as well.... :hairpull



There's 26 pages that covers everything, and the kid eventually gets OFF on this as well...Pretty sad really...



Check out what somebody did to my Z.... - MY350Z.COM Forums



Here are a few of the images for those who don't want to read the entire thing...

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I'd like to see the look on the kid's face that did that to my car when my 3 well paid hard pipe hittin' mo-fo's bang him and his parents up when they are walking into their house one night about a year from now when all is forgotten.....



Thats how I'd roll.
 
Well, I am extremely against kids who's parents pay for their mods, as it seems to be in this case.



Even after saying that, I'm on the kids side! I'd truly beat the vandal to a bloody pulp, or sue him for a new car.
 
Is that paint? I would probably want to kill whoever did that if it was my car. I imagine the insurance company would to.
 
For those that don't want to go through 26 pages to find out the what happens...here's a basic summary:





1) Thug throws paint onto this kids car

2) Rumors obviously start flying to who did it (it's a Highschool)..and quickly find out who it is.

3) Reward is offered for anyone with info

4) Apparently there's a video that said thugs friend took, but friend got scared when it came time to cough up the tape.

5) Investigators confront the kid who did it, the first words out of his mouth were "I want a laywer".

6) Out of 50 people who actually saw the kid throw the paint on the car..Only 2 came forward (apparently in fear this kid would come after them)

7) Goes to court with kid, and apparently the kid actually GETS OFF, after one of the witness bails before the hearing and there is only 1 witness who comes forward saying he saw it. Apparently when investigators had first asked this kid about it, he said he didn't know anything, because he was scared of being beaten up, but apprently came forward later. Defense attorney jumped on this and apparently the witness was found "not credible".



8) Apparently the parents of the kid were total deadbeats (suprise). The kid's dad showed up to court with his son dressed like a gangbanger apparently.



Also regarding the kid having a modded 350z....I totally agree that a kid doens't need a car like that in highschool. Apparently his 2 sons (which both have moded 350zs) have been racing since the age of 7 and 8, and are quite responsible with them...
 
That punk who did that is a real scumbag. He'll get his someday, hopefully as the receiving party in a jailhouse romance.
 
That's a rough story - it's a real shame when criminals get off like that.



The 350z's owner made a good choice in not paying the kid back right away though. I had someone dent my car before, and I made the mistake of knocking him around pretty good, because of that I was unable to claim damages or he would have turned me in for assault.



However the kid who did it already has 20k in judgements pending against him for vandalism, etc. The real payback will come when he is unable to get a decent job because of his record and the state takes every penny that he makes at McDonalds.
 
themightytimmah said:
However the kid who did it already has 20k in judgements pending against him for vandalism, etc. The real payback will come when he is unable to get a decent job because of his record and the state takes every penny that he makes at McDonalds.
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Don't hold your breath on that. The scumbag who broke into my Accord about 10 years ago, Nikolas Lampkin of Fort Worth still owes me about $50 restitution but being the lowlife loser he is, he ended up back in jail.
 
When I was in high school I went to school with a lot of extremely rich kids. The student parking lot had BMWs, a Hummer, some Mercedes, a couple of Mitsubishi Eclipses, Mustangs, etc etc. All of these cars were given to the kids brand new when they turned 16. This was back in 98. The majority of the cars that the kids drove were between 30 and 40 grand. None of these kids had to pay for their cars and took it for granted that their insurance, registration and gas were all payed for by their parents.

Being raised by a single mother there was not a whole lot of surplus cash floating around, so I worked after school and weekends and bought a 1991 Honda Accord Station Wagon from a nice old lady in my neighborhood for $4,000 when I turned 17.

It was a great deal.

I got made fun of a lot by the richer kids for driving the "welfare mobile". And I got in more than a couple fights about it. While I might not have had the money they did, I had a helluva lot more moxy.

With this in mind I can understand the motivation for the kid to splatter paint all over this rich kids car, while I have more self control than that, I can still understand how he felt, that doesn't mean I condone the action, far from it, but a teenager has no business whatsoever driving a modded $35,000 car. Period.

Does this mean that he deserved to have paint dumped on his car? Of course not, but if he had been driving a more appropriate automobile, (might I recommend a station wagon?), I doubt it would have caught this vandals eye in the first place.



edit: $35,000 is just for the car, I just had a peek at his upgrades and there is at least ten thousand dollars worth of audio parts and installation, and while I am more familiar with audio than I am engine, it appears at least an additional $15,000 in engine mods. With about another $10,000 in exterior, wheels and brakes. Lambo doors? Good lord.
 
LastDetail said:
When I was in high school I went to school with a lot of extremely rich kids. The student parking lot had BMWs, a Hummer, some Mercedes, a couple of Mitsubishi Eclipses, Mustangs, etc etc. All of these cars were given to the kids brand new when they turned 16. This was back in 98. The majority of the cars that the kids drove were between 30 and 40 grand. None of these kids had to pay for their cars and took it for granted that their insurance, registration and gas were all payed for by their parents.

Being raised by a single mother there was not a whole lot of surplus cash floating around, so I worked after school and weekends and bought a 1991 Honda Accord Station Wagon from a nice old lady in my neighborhood for $4,000 when I turned 17.

It was a great deal.

I got made fun of a lot by the richer kids for driving the "welfare mobile". And I got in more than a couple fights about it. While I might not have had the money they did, I had a helluva lot more moxy.

With this in mind I can understand the motivation for the kid to splatter paint all over this rich kids car, while I have more self control than that, I can still understand how he felt, that doesn't mean I condone the action, far from it, but a teenager has no business whatsoever driving a modded $35,000 car. Period.

Does this mean that he deserved to have paint dumped on his car? Of course not, but if he had been driving a more appropriate automobile, (might I recommend a station wagon?), I doubt it would have caught this vandals eye in the first place.



edit: $35,000 is just for the car, I just had a peek at his upgrades and there is at least ten thousand dollars worth of audio parts and installation, and while I am more familiar with audio than I am engine, it appears at least an additional $15,000 in engine mods. With about another $10,000 in exterior, wheels and brakes. Lambo doors? Good lord.
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I dont understand how you can even begin to correlate the connection between a teenager driving a 35k car, and some punk-*** kid throwing paint all over it. It DOESN'T matter who's car it is, that is someone's property where hard-earned money was spent on it. The parents (who probably payed for it) feel just as bad as the kid. There is absolutely, positively, no justification in this act. People like you have some kind of complex (jealousy, maybe?) where you believe that those more fortunate who are able to drive more expensive cars have something 'coming to them' (i.e. in this car, vandalism on a car). The kid just happens to be very lucky to be able to drive a nicer car. This is not taking into account whether he deserves it, or needs it, or pays for it, because this is completely irrelevant. Quite frankly, it is none of anyones business if the kid deserved it or not.



Unfortunately, its people like you who categorize the younger kids in the expensive cars as automatic 'spoiled brats' and thus targets to vandalism.



A real shame he was let off.
 
It's funny that for many, many on here, a car like that would be a garage queen, not a daily driver. If I had that car, I most likely wouldn't be taking it to the supermarket or the mall, not because I'd be afraid of someone throwing paint on it, but shopping carts/door dings/stone chips/STOLEN would be on my mind. No matter what you guys say, that car IS a target (for theft or vandalism, and no, there is no excuse for either), no matter who is driving it.



I can't help but think "he who doth protest too much" when some of you defend him driving a car like that to school.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I can't help but think "he who doth protest too much" when some of you defend him driving a car like that to school.
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Until I was a senior in high school, I rode a 10 speed to and from-and as a senior, I drove a dented 1971 Chevelle I paid $400 for. We had kids with new z/28s, Trans Ams, etc driving to school and at no point was I jealous or feel the need to vandalize their car because someone their age shouldn't have one.



I would agree owning a car like that *may* make it a target for some lowlife to mess with it but it isn't the owner of the car who has a problem. It is the scum who mess with them who need to modify their behavior.
 
Scottwax said:
I would agree owning a car like that *may* make it a target for some lowlife to mess with it but it isn't the owner of the car who has a problem. It is the scum who mess with them who need to modify their behavior.
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I wasn't implying otherwise, but it's up to the owner to have situational awareness. If you take a shortcut through a dark alley and get mugged, sure the mugger did it, but could you have avoided it by sticking to a longer, well-lit, more crowded route? I'm hardly defending vandals, car theives, or muggers, only saying we don't live in an ideal world, if we did we wouldn't need locks on our houses or cars.
 
I drove the 1973 Triumph GT6 and 1991 Lincoln Town Car pictured here in High School(Class of '05).



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I was lucky in that the principal was a fan of Triumph and other English sports cars and I got to park in the staff lot. I still had someone leave a big loogie on the hood one day.
 
BMW335i said:
I dont understand how you can even begin to correlate the connection between a teenager driving a 35k car, and some punk-*** kid throwing paint all over it. It DOESN'T matter who's car it is, that is someone's property where hard-earned money was spent on it. The parents (who probably payed for it) feel just as bad as the kid. There is absolutely, positively, no justification in this act. People like you have some kind of complex (jealousy, maybe?) where you believe that those more fortunate who are able to drive more expensive cars have something 'coming to them' (i.e. in this car, vandalism on a car). The kid just happens to be very lucky to be able to drive a nicer car. This is not taking into account whether he deserves it, or needs it, or pays for it, because this is completely irrelevant. Quite frankly, it is none of anyones business if the kid deserved it or not.



Unfortunately, its people like you who categorize the younger kids in the expensive cars as automatic 'spoiled brats' and thus targets to vandalism.



A real shame he was let off.
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I find it a bit ironic that you quoted me in your response and still misquoted me in your statement. I even stated that in no way do I condone what happened to this kids car, but what I did have was an understanding for the vandals motivation. And I am not sure where you got the idea that I was saying that the kid doesn't deserve the car he drives, what I was saying was that it was a bit ridiculous for a 17 year old to be driving such a powerful and expensive car, and that kids are a jealous breed, especially when class and income play a part in it and that it shouldn't have been such a surprise when someone vandalized that car.



Now onto your comment of "People like you have some kind of complex (jealousy, maybe?) ..." I resent that you feel the need to make a personal attack on me. I related a story of when I was in High School and got made fun of by the richer kids because I had a car that wasn't expensive. I was using my personal experience as an illustration of the stunted social growth of the average high school aged person.

Lets take the same situation and apply it 15 years down the line. If I was working in an office and drove the same level of car that I had in high school I hardly think that my co-workers would be making snide comments about my financial situation. Why? Because they have matured to the point where they realize that interaction like that is not appropriate. (hopefullly at least) Because this kid, had this car, at this age, contributed greatly, in my opinion, to the vandalism of his car. That was the only point I was making.



I don't appreciate the personal attack, if you wanted to debate me about what I stated you could have used a more professional attitude. Thanks.
 
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