“I’m a little shit and I feel like destroying something” isn’t really so much a “reason” as a “indirect method of begging for someone to kick your ass”.
I have knowledge of two specific examples where I know **why **cars get keyed:
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[li]Some asshole parks his car entirely on the sidewalk blocking all access and forcing pedestrians to walk on the street[/li][li]Owners of a nearby car parking area do this to dissuade people from **NOT **using their parking[/li][/ul]
The first instance is somewhat defensible. Parking in Athens is chaotic at best, and it is common to find incidences of people parking their car on the completely on the sidewalk and impeding pedestrians on Friday or Saturday nights in popular locations when they can’t find legal parking. Traffic police never shows up and if you’ve wasted 30 minutes going in circles to find a legal space, it is infuriating to see the solution adopted by people who think they’re smarter or better than everyone else. So they take it out on the car…
The second example happens mainly during the summer. A lot of enterprising folks have built paying parking areas next to small marinas or ports used by people who take one-day or weekend ferry trips. Because the prices charged are somewhat abusive, a lot of people simply park illegally on the side of the street and leave their car there for the day or weekend. They don’t impede traffic, but parking is clearly not allowed. The operators of the parking areas have been seen to key all the cars of the people that dared prefer to avoid paying for parking. Following which, the parking dudes call the police so that in addition to getting their cars keyed, travelers find themselves with a parking ticket as well.
Neither case justifies causing property damage to others, and not that it makes the owner of the car feel any better, but there is a thought process behind it all It’s not just mindless vandalism. It’s purposeful vandalism.
I got my car egged a couple of months ago, in the summer, and really, I don’t care what his reason was. I know what it was - convenience. I park next to the street (but on my own property; I have a stretch of shoulder that I park on) and he was driving by and my car was right there. You could tell it had been done while driving.
I kind of would like to see the crap kicked out of the guy, yes. I mean, it was a summer day that weekend, I washed it in the backyard, and it all came off, but it is still such a stupid little shitty thing to do. And I went through my entire teen years without vandalizing anything, so don’t tell me “all teenagers do it”.
Teens - or anyone - who thinks it’s OK to vandalize other people’s stuff should have the shit kicked out of them. It would teach them to quit it.
I wince every time October comes around because of the little pricks doing shit like this. In this one thing I am all "GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN’ and have been since I was a kid myself.
ETA: In contrast to egging, as the previous poster (your name is way too hard!) points out, car keying is usually done in response to some perceived slight. Still not right, but not usually done for no reason.
I agree, but curb-stomp??? I know it’s just venting, but that just strikes me as an extraordinarily ugly place for the mind to go over scratched paint.
I agree… curbstomping is just awful… it makes me cringe just thinking about it. Something about it just… makes my skin crawl… in a way that not much else does.
The sound of someone keying a car also makes me cringe though… so who knows.
Not only should car keyers be curb-stomped, but so should people who dent your car swinging their doors open. And not the “door swings 6 inches by itself and puts a white mark on your car,” I mean when people blast the door open with no regard for someone else’s (your) property.
Yes, curb-stomped.
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Egg or key the car of your local dope dealer/pimp, break a window and throw the wallet inside on the floor. Take his cell phone (and pants and shoes) so he can’t call for reinforcements, and call his mother and tell her what her son was caught doing.
Or if Mom’s number is not in the cell phone, call in a false police report and give his address as the place where you saw an armed breaking and entering taking place.
After this imagination fails me.
y-o-u d-o n-o-t h-a-v-e t-h-e r-i-g-h-t t-o s-t-u-f-f e-g-g-s u-p s-o-m-e-o-n-e-'-s a-s-s! E-v-e-r!
It was a conspiracy.
I regularly fantasize about shooting assholes driving around on blatting Harleys. Sometimes I change it up and fantasize about stringing a wire across the road and having them cut in half or yanked off the bike at high speeds.
U-n-l-e-s-s t-h-e-y a-s-k y-o-u t-o! 
Yikes. My sympathies!
My older brother is 14 years older than me and I’M old. He and my sister-in-law bought a Chrysler convertable, not expensive, but “with it.” lol (He called it his “mid-life Chrysler” instead of having a mid-life crisis…which was another joke because he was OLD.)
For her birthday he drove her down the Pacific coastline, both of them so old that they hit all the Early Bird specials along the way. All the way down to San Francisco, and had a fantastic time. Then they came to visit to me.
They got a motel room in a good area. We spent a couple days seeing all the sights (yes, the same ole same ole to anybody who lives here, but new to them.)
Then, in the motel parking lot, somebody keyed his car.
What kills me is that he didn’t even try to get it fixed. When they got back home he sold it. Along with his (& hers) illusions of youth and freedom.
Kids, probably. Not to be taken personally. But he aged twenty years before my eyes.
Not exactly your scenario, but this asswipe got caught in our town keying Hummers because he didn’t like them. Up to this point, I didn’t realize some cars had security cameras built into the mirrors!
I watched this unfold on the news, and during one interview he professed not only to being upset enviro-wise, but was pissed at others who drove unnecessarily expensive cars. He himself driving the much more circumspect BMW.:rolleyes:
Wait, aren’t you in the wrong forum, then?
(disclaimer: I had a kid plow into me last winter and he couldn’t believe it when I told him “Hey, you picked the perfect car to run into, because I really don’t care what it looks like.” Did the same thing last night when an SUV ran into my bike)
(but I can still hang out here, because I’m plenty assholish in other areas)