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Original poster

To be very angry, so very angry.

86 replies

SpudsGuns · 13/05/2020 08:36

My daughter is a front line nurse.
Last month she contacted Covid-19, which fortunately she recovered from, but is still feeling the effects of.
Last week a pipe burst in her downstairs bathroom overnight while she and her husband were asleep and flooded her out.
Last night she went to go to work and found some low life had stolen her car!!
I'm angry, so angry at the low lived scumbag.
I hope they find her car wrapped round a tree with the scum thief crippled inside it.
That is all.

OP posts:
Ibelieveinyesterday · 13/05/2020 12:40

Have a nice day

Thank you. It certainly won't be hate-filled or bitter! Grin

Lifeisgenerallyfun · 13/05/2020 12:40

So sorry your daughter has had a shit time. Life is crap at times.

But you can’t mean for the car to be wrapped round a tree, that would be a right off, surely you mean for the car to be found carefully parked up ready to return with the keys locked inside itand for the fuckwit what stole it to have accidentally parked it in the lion enclosure at a safari park which he only realised once he was a long way from the car.

Seetheprettysnowdrops · 13/05/2020 12:43

Some right weird, apologist posts on here

I've been on Mn long enough to know I'm not considered a nice person

I would have wished the same as you OP. Not just as a vent but I mean it.

ThatsWhatHeroesDo · 13/05/2020 12:47

No, you definitely want the car to be a write off, car thieves do not treat cars well so if its found intact the engine is likely to be ragged. Hope the tree is ok though, perhaps round a bollard or lamppost? I once saw a car that had gone too fast round a square, flipped over some bike racks and was on its side. (Driver was fine believe it or not but got done for drink drive).

Also OP I would go see your daughter. Even if you have covid shes had it now, and she won't give it to you now if she's recovered. No fear of spreading.

RadioactiveHead · 13/05/2020 13:06

ibelieveinyesterday

Everyone in this country has access to education and opportunities, if they choose to take them. I say this as someone who was brought up by a single dad, in one of the most deprived places in the UK and still managed to do something with my life. People have unfair advantages over each other, but to say you can never educate yourself and improve yourself in the UK is just wrong.

Stealing cars is an easy option for people who don't want to work hard. There is no reason whatsoever, aside from someone holding a gun to your head to do so. They just choose to be scum.

That aside, I do actually know someone who had their house broken into in the middle of the night, stole their fancy car, the police where called and took chase and the thieves crashed the car at high speed and all died. That is pretty harsh karma.

PinkDramaLlama · 13/05/2020 13:06

FFS sake - saying you want something bad to happen is not the same it actually happening. Thinking about something is not the same as doing it. Get off your high horses and have some sympathy - having your car nicked is horrible, especially if you need it to get to work to save lives.
And an extra specially large ODFOD to those who are saying that we should not judge the thief because they needed the money. Unless of course you will be walking the streets tonight giving away everything you own to people in need. Then if course you could comment without sounding like an idiot.

1forsorrow · 13/05/2020 13:09

For those who believe there will be karma for the thief, what sort of karma do you expect there to be for people who wish for others to be crippled?

Personally I don't believe in karma but lots of people do.

RadioactiveHead · 13/05/2020 13:09

Also, I work with people in debt and spend all day every day dealing with Universal Credit, Food Banks and getting debt written off which FYI is really easy to do.

There is no excuse whatsoever to steal a car. This is the UK. Despite what you all think, we have a safety net here.

Seetheprettysnowdrops · 13/05/2020 13:15

I don't believe in karma

I do believe in just desserts though

Jizzle · 13/05/2020 13:20

What a disgusting attitude you have OP, your comments about wishing someone a disability are sickening

digletgid · 13/05/2020 13:22

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Guavaf1sh · 13/05/2020 13:22

Ignore the apologists. Vent away! Everyone knows you don’t mean so literally. Obviously I join you in hoping the thief does get their just deserts

Seetheprettysnowdrops · 13/05/2020 13:26

Digletgid. That's a personal attack on the OP

digletgid · 13/05/2020 13:28

And you support the OP wishing someone to be crippled makes her a nice person?

This isn't nethuns you can call out people for being a shit here.

Ibelieveinyesterday · 13/05/2020 13:31

Everyone in this country has access to education and opportunities, if they choose to take them

Thatcher, is that you??!

Of course, if people are poor, destitute or uneducated it's entirely their own fault. Hmm

I'm sure young carers who can't attend school because of caring responsibilities or young people who've gone through the care system and slipped through the net will all agree! And that's not even getting into children from very deprived and difficult home lives where school is the last on the priority list.

Lynda07 · 13/05/2020 13:53

I think people generally have to do more than 'contact' Covid-19, in order to 'catch' the virus.

My best wishes to your daughter, I hope she stays well.

simonisnotme · 13/05/2020 13:57

just because someone may/may not be desperately skint it does not give them the right to steal other peoples property.
I will join you and hope the thief gets their just deserts , the utter shit bag
pp^^ If the thieves hadn't pinched the car in the first place they wouldn't be dead now they made that decision and they copped for it

RadioactiveHead · 13/05/2020 14:09

Thatcher, is that you??!

No, I am Norman Tebbit.

I would have got on my bike if my family could have afforded one, instead I just got off my arse.

There are vulnerable, ill people in the UK who need the help and support of our social system. Everyone else can crack on and sort themselves out as far as I am concerned. It takes skill to steal a car, but then some people are too lazy to work the hours or put in the study to end up with a job that would buy you a decent car.

mouldysprouts · 13/05/2020 14:11

Plenty of us are struggling to feed our families. We aren't out there stealing cars.

1forsorrow · 13/05/2020 14:17

I do believe in just desserts though Great because the just desserts for stealing a car isn't to be crippled.

Seetheprettysnowdrops · 13/05/2020 14:21

Digletgid. No. Not nethuns

That's why your post was deleted

QuimReaper · 13/05/2020 14:50

The person that took the car might have needed it just to sell for scrap to buy some food for their family.

Oh my GOD.

Original poster
SpudsGuns · 13/05/2020 15:22

As I said earlier, of course I don't really wish for anyone to be left disabled.
I'm angry, upset and want to comfort my child in a way that only a mother can.
And I can't.
However, if you wish to think I'm a terrible person for saying something while feeling emotional then please do. I can't change your opinion on that.
Thank you to the posters who have shown a wonderful support. You're terrific and I wish you all good health.

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EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 13/05/2020 15:25

What a horrible shitty thing to do, of course you are upset. I won't even say what I wished on the teenagers who beat my teen up and stole his phone

Ibelieveinyesterday · 13/05/2020 15:29

You're terrific and I wish you all good health.

Oh maybe that's why I'm disabled or "crippled" as it's been put! Grin Must be because I deserve it though, according to this thread..