Was I wrong to egg the car?!

[Simplepink]

I stand by my convictions and don’t think I was wrong but interested to hear what other people think.
my husband thinks a note would’ve sufficed.

so we live right next to a public footpath which leads up to accommodation for lots of elderly people.

yesterday I noticed a car had blocked the entrance to this footpath which is clearly marked as to be kept clear at all times.
asked around neighbours, no one knew the cars owner.
waited a good couple of hours, person still hasn’t returned to car.
Many elderly people with walking aides struggling to get past. Anyone with a wheelchair wouldn’t be able to.

i had already left a note on the car but realised the owner would return, rumple up the note and not be slightly inconvenienced. . . . Sooo I egged the car windscreen. (Yes I know I’m clearly 12 years old/it’s a very minor criminal offence etc)
But my logic is that this person was therefore also mildly inconvenienced as retribution for their blasé attitude to others.

YABU to egg the car
YANBU to egg the car

(disclaimer this may be completely hypothetical and there’s no proof I am the neighbour who egged the car!)

Brilliant! I'm with you! Don't say it, egg it!!

I can’t imagine ever doing this. Pathetic behaviour.

I know of a similar occurrence where someone’s windscreen got egged after it was left in an inconvenient spot.

The driver had actually had a heart attack while driving. His wife returned to collect the car a while later to it have been egged. Was pretty upsetting I imagine.

There’s better ways to go about things I guess.

You did the right thing. This is a mere blip in human history, no one will remember it next week and it communicated your point well. There would be people engaging in whataboutery in any action you took. I once kicked a goose because it bit my child

Twats that park like that probably don’t have the reflective capacity to work out why anyone would have egged their car, and probably put it down to ASBO half term behaviour.

So a waste of good food, achieving nothing but venting your own feelings

Unless it's a repeat offender a note on the windscreen would suffice. It's not that easy to remove egg from a windscreen so therefore the car will be there a lot longer than necessary. A bit of a juvenile act from a grown adult imho

Unhinged - really?

@PersephonePomegranate23

Absolutely. What normal person intentionally causes damage to someone else's property, in an act of complete anti-social behaviour, thinking it'll teach them a lesson? It's vigilante-style behaviour.

Tbh my 10 year old does have more sense too and thought it “was a bit naughty mum”
I obviously told him to do as a say and not as I do. . .

Sure. I'm doubting this tale more & more ...

Risking an assumption that you are an adult... both unreasonable and utterly ridiculous.

If you're 13 and acting out, it might be slightly more understandable.

What a ridiculous way to react to a problem. Is that how you usually resolve issues or things that annoy you? Not exactly a great example to set to DC.

You'd get on well with the Audi larder...

I 'Larded' an Audi.... www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/5042641-i-larded-an-audi

Screw 'em. Selfish people should have to deal with consequences. Well done!

So it’s there even longer while he cleans the egg off?

😂

ALLERGIES!!

Someone once egged my friends car. She is highly allergic to egg and ended up in hospital for quite a while.

Gosh this thread is absolute mumsnet glory in so many ways.

OP I absolutely commend you for taking the law into your own hands- it’s only a matter of time before we all start taking vitriolic actions against those who scorn us- the police are ill equipped to support, the world is going to hell in a handcart, people are hungry (I mean the vague criticism is that you’re clearly showing your mumsnet membership by being middle class enough to waste eggs cos they are fucking costly these days), and it’s only a matter of time til we’re full on Hunger Games- you’ve just got a head start- essentially you are both the future, and the past. Schrodinger’s vigilante.

our council have recently removed a significant number of bins around the area so hopefully the streets will soon be covered in enough dog shit that we’ll soon be able to hurl a pile at the latest selfish cunt that gets in our path.

May the odds be forever in your favour 💪🏼

Order some of these and next time, cover the car www.amazon.co.uk/you-park-like-c-stickers

Ovary acting.

Absolutely eggseptional 👏🏼

How exactly is the chicken going to know where the egg ended up?

How do you know it wasn’t someone who had an emergency and needed to support their own older person?

so you egg the car - driver does not have the right tools to clean off egg properly before they drive off and decides to chance it and ends up not seeing properly and creates a car accident - or did you avoid the windows?

Egging it and leaving notes wouldn't get it moved either.

Utterly pathetic. Bottom of the barrel type of behaviour. Keep it classy, OP.

Even if this guy came back and said I don’t give a fuck about the elderly they can get stuffed. I still don’t think it justifies egging the car.

Sadly I think the people who tend to be inconsiderate tend to be very self centred and will only feel irritated by your egging and feel victimised rather than seeing themselves as the reasons for your actions. Or they’ll literally not care, think ‘dick’, wipe the egg off and get on their merry way continuing to inconvenience people as they always did and always will do.

The unhinged bit is really in the level of thought and effort that would go into an egging. It’s not like you carry a box of eggs around in your pocket for an impulsive bit of vigilantism.

You’d need to be annoyed. Ponder what to do. Decide that egging is what you think is best. Go and get some eggs. And then go out and egg a car.

Lots of time to think: wait. This is ridiculous.