Someone has keyed my car when I’ve been at work

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I work in a nursery and it has no car park. Only on road parking and I’ve come out to this when I came out of work this afternoon. It definitely wasn’t there this morning. I presume it’s someone who lives on the road but there is no where else to park.. there is a few buildings that might have cctv but what can be done?

Without witnesses or CCTV nothing.

Are you sure you haven't blocked a driveway or parked inconsiderately ?

If someone objects so vehemently to just legal parking when you don't live in the street it's rather an extreme action and, of course, indefensible.

Knock on nearest neighbours and ask if they saw anything or have ring doorbell etc?

Horrible thing to do.

Loads of people park on my street and walk to some local offices and school. Pretty much all park nicely and legally. One of my neighbours regularly keys cars parked there. It's such a twatty thing to do.

I can't prove who it is, but I have strong suspensions.

Similar to you OP.

I'm a supply teacher and so travel all over the place. I rarely "risk" the school car parks (if there's one at all), for a multitude of reasons, and have to park on the street. I'm always a bit nervous for my car and park as carefully as I can. Fortunately (and touch wood), I've not had anything like this.

People are arseholes.

It's horrible, but there's not much you can do - even if a neighbour had footage from a ring doorbell, it's unlikely to be clear enough what was done and who did it in order to take any action.

I have similar issues at certain sites I work at, and generally I try and park further away and vary where I park so that I don't get recognised as a 'commuter car'. One particular street gets regularly targeted by thieves smashing car windows, and it seems to be because they assume no one parked there is local so it's fair game.

Same here. The train station has no parking within walking distance so no choice other than to park on the streets. It's terraced housing which I usually find makes people a bit less precious but cars regularly get keyed.

You could set up a camera to cover the pavement side if your car if its a regular occurrence, or get some stickers warning there's a camera.

Have you left enough room for a pram to pass? I’ve heard some mums say some awful things about what they’d do to cars that are parked on pavements so could easily be a pissed off parent on their way to nursery.

Definitely wasn’t parked on the curb. I guess I could have gone back slightly and closer to the car parked behind me but there was a big mound of snow stopping me from doing so. There was plenty of parking around though. I wonder if it was because I was infront of someone’s house and they wanted to park there

This is the mark. I’m thinking it definitely looks like someone has keyed it?