Was I wrong to egg the car?!

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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!)

Of course it was wrong. You have no idea why the car is blocking the entrance.
And although it is selfish of them how is egging their car going to make anything any better? You were childish and it will do nothing to help the residents in the care home

Imagine looking out of your window and seeing an adult neighbour throwing eggs at a car.

YANBU Im sick of entitled behaviour, its not ok to block access for disabled/elderly, its hard enough using a walker or wheel chair without jerks doing things like this. Personally I would have called the cops, but your approach might be more effective.

Well they won't do it again.

For the people saying yes do it and I’m honestly not being judgmental, would you not carry the shame of doing something like this and losing control to your grave? I’ve just according to my husband been a bit rude to a shop assistant (I was a bit of a twat although the assistant was refusing to move out of the way of a shelf we were trying to get to and I asked if she’d mind moving) I’m absolutely mortified and have gone into a right shame spiral. I feel physically ill. Would you just do it and then move on? I’m in awe of being able to think like that.

I would of used some flour too and let them make a paste with their wipers!

not true. Eggs thrown at cars can cause hundreds of pounds of damage. My brothers car was egged. Cost over a thousand pounds to repair.

In this situation I believe the correct response would be to lecture him on his selfishness and explain how he should educate himself on social responsibility with the added suggestion that he volunteer to visit the elderly on Saturdays and do their errands on weekday nights.
On Sundays he can take the to the seaside.

Oh dear.

Two words, grow up.

Constantly deal with this and have never egged anyones car.

You egged someone's car? Y a totally unreasonable!

Nope it's a minor inconvenience for them but they've caused lots of inconveniences for less angled people so fair game imo!!

No I would feel like this too. But I'll happily applaud OP for inconveniencing entitled CFs.

Why? 🤣 because I have a 10 year old who felt that my behaviour was unreasonable?!

Just plain nasty.

I wouldn't want to meet you. You actually sound scary.

Well mumsnet has maybe made me feel a tad ashamed this morning but not to the point of carrying it to my grave!!! I didn’t poo on the car or spray paint a pornographic image on it or anything!
and I am impeccably polite and never rude to waiters or people serving me interestingly

You should apologize for your behavior to the shop assistant

Flour next time OP.

Every now and again I read a post on here that absolutely blows my mind. What sort of adult behaves this way? A note is the obvious/sane choice, an egged windscreen is probably just as baffling to the driver as your reaction is to me. As the old MN saying goes: “use your words”. I’d honestly expect a more intelligent response from my 6 year old 😳

While I like the fact that on posts like this there are always those who say the person who is in the wrong 'may have had an emergency' etc, however in real life it's surely 98% due to the fact that the person is just a twat.

Well played OP. Anyone who thinks the driver will see a polite note and undergo a life changing epiphany is away with the fairies.

I do feel for you. We regularly get blocked in by people between 8 and 4. I always leave a note and the same person never does it again but it doesn't help me when I need to get to work, the shops or schoolrun. I would feel your frustration and nearly vaselined the last car to do it but instead spoke to the driver. They were apologetic but it had already disrupted my day by that point. The police have helped in the past but the last few times its been 12 hrs before they responded (understandably) which is no help. We now have to park across our own driveway for all hospital appts, flights and other important events because people are so thoughtless.

YABU

There is too much aggression in the world. The car parked was unreasonable but responding to it so dramatically is not ok. I bet if you revealed that you are a man and that the car belonged to a woman everyone would be thinking you were wrong.

I'll stand up for myself when I need to and I'll confront people if I need to but I'm always measured and polite in doing so.

I think you need to grow up