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Original poster

to be pissed that the Tories just broke my windscreen wiper

31 replies

ljwales · 29/03/2015 09:19

I live in a key marginal seat, so getting a lot of crap from the Tories and their propaganda. they felt the need to put the same leaflet through my door and under my windscreen wiper. The wiper was already fragile and had been taped back together but this has messed it up.

Doesn't help that the leaflet was a load of crap, taking about this torie guy a poses fracking even though the party has massively supported it and improving rail even though the nearest train station is 15 miles away!

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londonrach · 29/03/2015 09:22

I hate anyone putting anything after my windscreen wiper blades and have phoned one company and told them not to do that again and id now blacklisted their company and will never use them. I was having a bad day and their leaflet had got wet and made a right mess of my windscreen wiper. Yanbu!!!!!!!!

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ljwales · 29/03/2015 11:58

Its really annoying! Who ever sees something on their windscreen has to take it off and thinks oh yes I will use these annoying people?!

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Frusso · 29/03/2015 12:04

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limitedperiodonly · 29/03/2015 12:05

TBF to the Tories, if your wiper was fragile enough to be broken by their policies you'd probably be better off with a trip to Halfords.

But, they damaged your property, so you know what you should do on Election Day Wink.

PilchardPrincess · 29/03/2015 12:10

Typical tory bastards kicking people when they're down (or busting wipers when they're already fragile, in this case).

This tragic story encapsulates every rotten thing they stand for.

Wink
BIWI · 29/03/2015 12:12

They're not called the nasty party for nothing
Grin

RyanAirVeteran · 29/03/2015 12:12

The wiper was already fragile and had been taped back together but this has messed it up.

Doesn't sound like the car is roadworthy TBH. Hardly the Tories fault.

richthegreatcornholio · 29/03/2015 12:17

Doesn't sound like the car is roadworthy TBH. Hardly the Tories fault.

And to be fair if it had been a Labour leaflet they'd have just demanded all your cash so they could hand it out to lazy and feckless windscreen wipers leaving yours still in its semi broken state.

Boofy27 · 29/03/2015 12:21

Send them the bill for a new one, they will pass it off as an election expense.

Penguinotterfoxbadger · 29/03/2015 12:22

Haha Rich - I entirely disagree with you political opinion by your post was still funny Smile

I'd write to them (politely) explaining what's happened. You never know they might pay to fix it.

richthegreatcornholio · 29/03/2015 12:29

Haha Rich - I entirely disagree with you political opinion by your post was still funny smile

It was most definitely tongue in cheek!

maliaki · 29/03/2015 13:50

Annoying but I'd consider that a sign to replace it, if it's that fragile then heavy rain or hail would have broken it mid-drive and you'd have been in trouble. When the wipers grate because they're broken it's really annoying to listen to the scraping at slow speed let alone fast.

I hate leaflets on the car, worse is junk mail through my letterbox which clearly says ''no unsolicited mail, spam or junk'.

GraysAnalogy · 29/03/2015 13:52

Well in fairness this wouldn't have happened had you fixed your window wiper, which wouldn't have passed MOT anyway

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ljwales · 29/03/2015 14:39

Well this also wouldn't of happened if they had of not touched my property. I knew it was on its way out yes, but I didn't expect them to finish it off

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limitedperiodonly · 29/03/2015 14:48

That's your mistake OP.

The Tories are on a mission to finish many of us off and grind the stragglers up for pet food.

Remember that when going to the polling station.

But don't drive there unless you have a valid MOT.

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ljwales · 29/03/2015 14:59

Jokes on them really as I'm postal voting

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DirtyBlonde · 29/03/2015 15:03

We get advertising flyers under the windscreen wipers all the damned time. I haven't had any election bumf that way yet (it's come through the door).

But a taped up wiper needs replacing asap. Regardless of whether you get a bit of paper has been shoved under it one day.

Could have been worse - could have been a ticket!

maliaki · 29/03/2015 15:04

If it's been on it's way out while then you are lucky it's taken this long, every damn time I park in the car parks here I get some kind of leaflet (political, food, tradesman etc) shoved under my car wiper and they all go straight in the recycling. Once I had four different ones!

PilchardPrincess · 29/03/2015 16:15

It's a bit shit really isn't it, windscreen wipers are a bit fragile anyway and you don't really want randoms mucking with your car.

Plus we don't get them much and so the other day I didn't notice (our wipers are sort of tucked away a bit) and had to fucking pull over when I was like what the fuck is that.

So actually anyone who does this is utterly unreasonable 100% the end.

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ljwales · 30/03/2015 17:16

Still no reply from the Tories about this. I will twitter them again

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limitedperiodonly · 31/03/2015 12:32

Someone took the rubbers off my wipers and I didn't notice until I was on the motorway and there was a typical summer cloudburst.

Luckily I was on the inside and pulled onto the hard shoulder, blindly, because I couldn't see a thing. It was the most frightening moment of my life.

I don't think it was a political act though. Just a spiteful ex-boyfriend. He probably didn't even want to kill me. He was just fucking clueless, which is one of the reasons I left him.

But I digress OP. You keep on at them.

TSSDNCOP · 31/03/2015 12:46

Consider it a case of cosmic re-ordering. A soggy "vote Labour" leaflet came through my door yesterday and stuck itself to my kitchen tile floor. It took 15 minutes to scrape the fucker off.

morethanpotatoprints · 31/03/2015 12:51

Send them a polite note telling them what they have done and that you expect a replacement.

Orrible bastards, won't get my vote Grin

suedehead · 31/03/2015 13:10

Criminal damage, non?

5Foot5 · 31/03/2015 13:26

That's nothing - our Tory candidate once damaged our lawn badly enough we had to returf. Well OK that is stretching it a bit, but we held him sort of responsible.

An elderly guy over the road had just pulled his car on to the drive when the Tory candidate came rushing up to him to shake his hand, pat his dog, patronise him generally and the poor chap was so desperate to get in to the house out of the way that he forgot to put his handbrake on.....

I think getting the car off of our lawn caused more damage then when it rolled on.