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I was seeing one of my widow clients in Hyde yesterday evening. Left her house at about 2015 and and drove along Mottram Road to the traffic lights at Morrisons. Turned left onto Union Street so the multi-storey car park was on my right and..... BANG, big noise on my bonnet, cloud of dust and grit "what the f**k". Pulled up, looked around and saw kids running on the top floor of the multi-storey car park (turned out they were on bikes). Drove into the car park but it was gated off at the first level. Fortunately a copper was walking nearby and he came to speak to them. He knew their names, even shouting to them "Reece, come here now", went and told them off, came back to me and said "you're wasting your time, the families are real shitbags". He took some details and off he went, playing with his truncheon... or maybe it was an itch.

They started goading me again as I drove off, the gobby one on the BMX saying "I'll eff up your effing face you effin tw*t". I really don't know why, all I said was "Come here" - I never spoke at any other time. They cycled off shouting further abuse, so I drove off, turned round and chased them down a side street, through an opening in the wall, over a dirt car park and then stopped - those 944s are pretty nifty when you get them going - but no match for a group of local kids on BMXs. I got out of the car, stood there looking across the wasteland at them, helpless because there was no way I was going to catch them. The gobby one shouts "Get in the effin car, get in the effin car", and his sidekick, who was reloading his pockets with stones from the car park, shouts "yeh, get in before I rob it". I'm not stupid enough as to leave the car and pursue them, especially as I didn't know where the other four were.

I knew I was wasting my time so I drove round the corner, parked up, took the tie off and walked up the road. Two Asian lads said "They're always doing it, give them a smacking if you catch them", then "I know where they live, it's just down there". 'Down there' was where I'd left the car...... I went back and got in it and drove home.

This morning in the daylight I can see there are new dents on the bonnet near the windscreen, through to bare metal, and because this time we know who's done it I've reported the damage to the Police. I have to go in tomorrow at 1400 to give a statement - the scumbags' parents can pay for it..... though on previous experience with the Police I won't hold my breath.

Any suggestions? because I will not incriminate myself on here as to what will happen if I don't get a result via the plod. Suffice to say that they won't get away with it. I didn't speak to them because I never threaten anybody - people who make threats never actually do anything.

Rant over.

Don't see as you can do much about it. Unless the cop has some damage he witnessed, or there is a cctv somwhere.

Won't have any money if they get fined etc... Maybe your insurance can look at it. They may sue if there is evidence.

Too many of these guys around for sure...

You ll be lucky if the Police do anything about it! A young lad rode his bike into the side of our Volvo when my wife was driving,just rode off the pavement into the road without looking,she managed not to run over him but he scratched it down the side.He rode off but we found out where he lived with the help of some witnesses who told us we d be wasting our time.Anyway ,rang the police,went into town ,gave a full account etc including the kids name and address and witnesses.About two weeks later we got a letter from the police saying that they were not going to pursue the matter any further!

If you beat one the other 5 will be videoing you while your doing it. Best to walk away sad to say. Take it to a body shop & it may not be so bad.

John,

Very sorry to hear this has happened. There are some absolute sh*t heads out there. I know it's not much help, but you have to believe what goes around comes around. Karma will catch up with them. I'm sure you'd feel a heck of a lot better if it was your fist in their face or foot up their arse.

Even if you successfully won your case, the parents will either a) not give a sh*t about what their kids do and b) probably pay you back at 50p a week.

It's just a sad case of the society we're living in. These sh*t bag kids know they can get away with it and you can't touch them. What they have done does warrant action by the Police. It's a criminal act of vandalism, it was premeditated and wreckless endangerment. What if you'd lost control of you car and mowed someone down on the pavement as a consequence of their actions???

Call the Police! Thats all they're worth, calling a load of sh*t. They're just as powerless to do anything about it!

Ben

Does anyone else agree that vigilante mobs will eventually start to form because good, honest, hard working people will start to really get f##ked off with this sort of carry on and start sorting out these scrotes themselves because the police aren't doing anything. I for one hope so because violence is the only language these tossers understand! And if I'm really honest I would love nothing more than to give a scrote a good shoeing