Hit and Run part deux

[blas]

Since there's another seperate thread about a Hit and Run, I have a different story....

Anyone who lives around Minnesota and Wisconsin is probably aware of all the snow we've had recently and how the roads haven't been so well.

Last night I pulled into work and was putting my stuff away and getting ready to lock up and go in, and I saw in the row across from me, a van pull up way too close to a car. So close that he HIT the front passenger side of the car, right by the headlight.

You'd think he would have stopped? No. He kept going, pushing the car a bit. Then he finally realized what he did, and backed up and then PARKED RIGHT NEXT TO that car! I watched the guy get out, take a look at the damage, and then walk away as if nothing had happened.

It was rather dark, but I noticed that the hit car was my co-workers car! I got the plate # and went inside and told my coworker. We waited until the end of our shift when it was lighter outside to go look at the damage. Fortunately, the only real damage was that he had bashed out her blinker light (not the headlight itself but the little light on the side, my car's lights are like that, but most have them right under the headlight). We notifed security and got the guy's name, because the damage is so small and we actually know the guy that did it. He was still parked next to her!

[king4aday]

so is that still considered a hit and run or is it a hit and park?

[blas]

Hit and run since he made no effort to contact security and alert them of the situation or get a hold of my coworker. He'd had all night to do it. My coworker and I didn't report it until we left at shift end.

The damage is so small that my coworker doesn't even want to bother with the police or the insurance company. I mean, it's just a bashed out blinker light. She just wanted the guy's name so that he knew she knew what he did, that someone saw it happen. He is pretty old, there is a chance he didn't realize it. I mean, growing up and going to church every Sunday, my father parked in the way back because there was a little old lady who would back up until she hit someone or turn until she hit someone, and that was her mental que that it was far enough. It's possible he didn't even realize the damage he caused.

My coworker doesn't want vengeance or his name to do anything evil to him. She just wants him to know, and maybe if he can shell out some money so she can get a new light from a junkyard. Security was pretty adament that she call the police because they didn't want to give his name away.

[Geek King]

I vote call the cops. A person who will hit and run has no respect for other people's property, and no care for what it might cost them to fix his mistakes.

Remember folks, anytime you have to shell out cash you worked for to get something, that cash was traded for part of your life. Anytime someone steals from you, or damages your property, they are really taking part of your life from you. It makes me so angry to hear someone say, "It's just a thing. Get another one." That thing cost me X hours of my life to earn. I can't get that back. At least be sorry and tell me, I can forgive an honest accident. Don't sneak around and try to hide it from me.

[Shangri-laschild]

so is that still considered a hit and run or is it a hit and park?

Yes, if you don't leave a note or let the person you hit know, it's a hit and run.

[lordlundar]

Yes, if you don't leave a note or let the person you hit know, it's a hit and run.

Correction, It is a hit and run if you leave the scene. The note is a simple courtesy acceptance, but it's still as illegal. Don't believe me? Answer this question then: Can you guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt, that that note is still going to be there?

[Shangri-laschild]

Correction, It is a hit and run if you leave the scene. The note is a simple courtesy acceptance, but it's still as illegal. Don't believe me? Answer this question then: Can you guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt, that that note is still going to be there?

Good point, thanks for the correction.

[lordlundar]

No prob. There's a show on Discovery Canada called "Canada's worst Driver" and the latest season had a serial hit and runner. This exact point was brought up in one of the episodes.

[MadonnaC]

Correction, It is a hit and run if you leave the scene. The note is a simple courtesy acceptance, but it's still as illegal. Don't believe me? Answer this question then: Can you guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt, that that note is still going to be there?

"The people watching me think I'm writing my information on this note, but I'm not - HA HA HA"

[Pezzle]

I was once guilty of hit and run, but tis an amusing story. Cue me, tired as hell, leaving work and backing out of a parking space, cut teh wheel a little too hard, and smack the bumper of the van next to you. I hopped outside to look at the damages and realized I'd dented my car but the steel bumper was still pristine!

I wasn't sure what to do. So since nobody's car was f'd up, i just drove home.

[Becks]

There's a show on Discovery Canada called "Canada's worst Driver" and the latest season had a serial hit and runner.

Has he had his license taken away yet?

[lordlundar]

Has he had his license taken away yet?

No she hasn't. Though they have a member of the Ontario Provincial Police as part of the judgment team, as a condition the person coming into the rehabilitation course (the very same that's used to teach bad drivers all over the world) and on the show, prior incidents to which they confess to cannot be held against them. The idea is to rehabilitate the people. This is simply voluntary instead of court ordered.

Future ones though are open season. Last year, one of the nominees was a real jerk to everyone and bragging that he used his police school course ID to get out of many a traffic ticket. So they took the key to his car, cut it in two, and the officer forwarded all his little confessions and full pictures of his vehicle to the police where he lives in. The next time the stupid little punk tries it again, he can (and most likely will) face jail time. He was the only one in the entire rehabilitation course's 7 year history worldwide to actually be expelled.

[Becks]

No she hasn't.

My bad.

Though they have a member of the Ontario Provincial Police as part of the judgment team, as a condition the person coming into the rehabilitation course (the very same that's used to teach bad drivers all over the world) and on the show, prior incidents to which they confess to cannot be held against them. The idea is to rehabilitate the people. This is simply voluntary instead of court ordered.

That's completely fascinating, I must say.