No, because I look after machinery. Why destroy value just because the owner is in a dick contest?
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I have never seriously considered defacing, vandalizing or even touching other people’s cars. Someone might be an asshole but could one really say that as a fact just looking at their car? Even if its poorly parked or whatever, one never knows what that person is like, what kind of day they’re having, etc.
But lets say one knows for sure the car owner is an asshole, i still would not touch their car. I do not do things that i would not done to me, and i do not want anyone to mess with my car.
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I may have gently slapped the hood or quarter panel of expensive whehicles that nearly hit me while I was in a crosswalk with the right of way. Palm flat on the metal or plastic or fiberglass, doesn’t cause any harm to either the car or me but makes a nice noise.
Then followed up with the wagging finger of tut-tut with full-on old lady glare.
I think of it as doing my part to keep entitled-feeling assholes aware that pedestrians have rights, too.
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I did this once when a woman tried to push me off a pedestrian crossing in Hampstead. She got out of the car and started screaming, literally, about how she had a child in the car, how dare I, she would call the police…
Fortunately at this point a pair of passers-by told her they had seen everything, she had not stopped on the crossing, and they were prepared to be witnesses as “there’s too much of this sort of driving”. So she got back in the car and drove off.
I wouldn’t do it again, and I double plus with oak leaves wouldn’t do it in the US.
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I have been lucky, I guess; no confrontations, but I do live in a place where there’s a new street-level war going on between the cyclists and motorists, but even that’s a passive-aggressive war. We’re the weird neighborhood where people smile at each other.
On second thought, I probably wouldn’t do this in most other neighborhoods in the region. I’d get shot, or at the least, run over.
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Once saw a Rolls on the freeway in L.A. that had a bumper sticker on it that said, “My other car is a Volkswagen”.
I’m too old and conflicted to actually vandalize property. I do, however, enjoy folding in the mirrors on those ridiculous 4X4 pretend contractor trucks in my parking garage when they present themselves to me face height. Bonus points for doing the passenger side so they have go all the way to the other side of the enormous vehicle to fix it.
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Nice, it costs more than my first car.
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