to expect the Farking refuse collecters to collect refuse and not smash my fecking car

[onlyjoking9329]

my car sat on the road out side our house yesterday. i used it to do morning school run and i had to defrost the windows & lights there were no marks on my car then.
i went to get in the car to take steve to hospital and found lots of scuff marks down the kerbside bumpers and lights and a couple of deeper scratches, it must have been the bin men, not that i can prove it.
i am pissed of cos the blooming car was new in july and i don't want to send it to the garage cos i really really can't do carless at the moment.
luckily it is a mobility car so insurance will be ok but i will have to pay the excess
so thats the bin men not getting a tip this christmas

It might be worth ringing or writing to the council and explaining that you KNOW that they did it

well i can't prove it, but i can't see how else it has happened, we live on a small culdesac but a narrow one so everyone parks a bit on the kerb to let traffic get up the road

for you OJ

They must of known they had done it too

it's just another thing to add to the list of things to do, i suppose it could have been worse, it looks a mess but is driveable

no go to the councilm BUT also the police. To hit another car and drive off is a criminal offence.

You say there is no way to prove it? If you scuffed another car, there is a good chance there would be paint from your vehicle left on the car, surely?

we had similar with the council/bin lorries.

they paid up, actually without much of a fight.

no they have hit the car with the wheely bin, but the council will probably say it shouldn't have been parked on the kerb

[shock}

bloody bin men - never here when you want them and cause havoc when you don't need it.

should have been

hmm

well its still criminal damage

Quite possibly your car shouldn't, technically, have been on the kerb. But they are still not allowed to scratch it, surely?

The council would also tell you that the bin lorry has to get up and down the street, which would require you to park on the kerb though, I suspect.

Thats a fair point purple and one i hadn't thought of.

oh this happened to someone i know who was parked outside my house, but they really trashed it, so left a card with their details

it took 2 weeks for him to get his car back

My BIL had this happen when a bus rubbed the car and carried on. They reported it and the bus Co paid up without any arguement (they are obviously used to it!)

Is it that you can't prove it because you didn't see it happen? (sorry bad English)

If no one else was on the street, then it must have been them

i usually have to park on the kerb if the neighbours take all the spaces and if i do it on bin morning get a nasty tut tut letter from the council stuck on my windscreen by the bin menmabey they didnt know they did it those trucks are so big mabey the driver didnt feel it,i would ring them though and shout till they pay upalthough if you are wrong you could get an inocent person fired

it wasn't done by the lorry as the scratches are on the kerbside not the road side, i think it was done by the bin.

But it MUST have been caused by the bin then. What else would cause scratches like that?

How far on the kerb were you parked? If you had to take someone to hospital, don't you need to park as close to your house as possible, even if it means parking on the kerb?

well i always leave room for wheelchairs & pushchairsm thou no wheelchair users or pushchair users on our side of the close