<< My B had it's nose smushed in by some (explicatives
>deleted) in a parking lot. Apparently they thought they could back out of
>the space...OVER my MGB. They didn't even leave a number.>>
My wife's MGC got a bent brand new front bumper from a park-by-ear moron,
right after we restored the car.
One guy in university had it figured (and understand, I am not condoning this
method).
He was a lab TA in chemistry, and was pissed off that people kept backing
into his Morris Minor in the parking lot. He affixed a couple of those lab
rinse bottles - the Nalgene ones (plastic) with the little spout used for
squirting water for cleaning glassware, etc., to his front bumper. He filled
them up with something, I forget just what, that acted as a rather efficient
paint remover, so that anytime someone backed into his car, they would also
administer a punitive squirt of paint remover to the paint work on their own
car. The harder they hit it, the bigger the spray.
His theory, with which I admit to having some sympathy, was that as long as
they didn't transgress by bumping his Morris, they went untouched. The
self-administered punishment aspect always had some appeal to me. I don't
know whether it acted as a deterrent or not; more likely the people later
wondered who had vandalised theior cars, which robs the whole thing of some
of the irony, I guess.
Of course this was also the guy that rolled his Minor in the snow (gently) on
the way to university, with his whole car pool in it. The soon to be ex-car
pool, after extricating themselves (no seat belts, remember, just a clump of
about 6 disgruntled students on the now bottom most roof of the Minor),
apparently suitably berated both car and driver. Wish I'd been there to see
it.
Bill S.
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