What to do if someone jumps onto your bonnet?

skiddlydiddly

It depends.If it was just 1 or 2 I'd most likely confront them.Any more and you risk getting your head kicked in for the sake of a lump of metal so I'd call the cops,try and film them,then follow them.

only_mee

wazza wrote: »

police fine you for using a mobile phone while in charge/control of a car

You can phone the police from an non hands free phone whilst driving, and they won't prosecute.
But you can't phone anyone else in such a manner.

splishsplash

wazza wrote: »

I take it you are based in Ireland. Don't know if you have the same law there but here the icing on the cake will be if the police fine you for using a mobile phone while in charge/control of a car

Not with a handsfree kit? (Yes, I'm in Ireland.)

somech

this happened here a couple of years ago by the time i woke up half the street were out and caught them (drunken yobs were papping themselves as we debated calling the police or slapping them) good sense prevailed and the police were called.
if theres 1-2 i'd confront them any more then i'd shout at them/call the police and hope my neighbours come out

ukjoel

I would wait to them to continue down the road get in the car and run the sods over.

Chances they were so out their heads they wouldnt remember colour or car details and any dna after a few trips through the car wash would be accountable to them having already had contact with car earlier in the night.

Harsh but fair.:D

pimento

Slightly different scenario but my husband looked out of our front room window one afternoon (broad daylight) and a young woman (who's partner was standing behind her at the top of our drive) walked onto our drive, dropped her drawers and was about to take what I hope was a wee behind my car.

He opened the window and shouted at her to desist and she had the brass neck to give him a mouthful of abuse that would have made a docker blush, pulled up her knickers and sauntered off up the road.

It's a good job I was at work, or she would have been wearing those knickers around her neck.

Lum

I thought you were gearing up for an Essex girl joke there. o_O

ie. "I was in Essex and when I got back to my car there was a bird on the bonnet taking a dump, so I told her to pull her knickers up and **** off".

pimento

I do live in Essex! Not sure if she was wearing white stilettos though. She definitely wasn't going commando.

spike7451

Lum wrote: »

This used to happen to a colleague on a regular basis. The kids would go up and down all the cars in the street drunk late at night.

After the second time, one of his neighbours put a roof rack on his Volvo which the kid caught his ankle on, breaking it and then faceplanted into the second bar of the roof rack.

The police said if it had been anything other than a roof rack up there they would, unfortunately, have had to arrest the guy for putting up a booby trap, but since a roofrack has a legitimate reason for being there, they wern't concerned. They were also laughing their !!!!!! off.

Don't know how you'd get on with making them pay though. It would be a civil suit and if they turn out to be on the dole or something you might see a pound a week for the next 5 years or something.

We once had a chav prat climb up the door ladders on the back of our company Transit van & 'surf' on the roof.All going swimmingly for him till we hit the next speed bump doing 30ish & he got flung off!
Did'nt know he was on there till we saw him go 'weeee....' off the van roof onto the road!:D
Dunno what happened to him,it was off the Falls Road & we were'nt hanging around to get lynched by the Provo's!! (Especially as I'm English!) But we never heard anything back over it.

mikey72

ukjoel wrote: »

I would wait to them to continue down the road get in the car and run the sods over.

Chances they were so out their heads they wouldnt remember colour or car details and any dna after a few trips through the car wash would be accountable to them having already had contact with car earlier in the night.

Harsh but fair.:D

To be fair as well if you were my neighbour I'd report you for attempted muder.

If you wanted to fight him I'd hold your coat, and keep his mates off, if you want to kill him with a car because he bent your bonnet you deserve to go down for it.