To The Son Of A Bitch That Hit My Car In Brooklyn And Left...

"I'm sure he has insurance. It will be OK."

That's how moral relativists think.

Haha, I can always count on you, Matt!

Animals out there have no respect for other people's property. I find these things are most done by people who do not care about their vehicle condition and see it as simple transportation. Doesn't help that you were surrounded by socialist hipsters. I can assure you none of the car loving readers on this site who have done this. Had a similar experience after parking my wife's car in the rain a few years back and looking back as I walked away. Something didn't look right and sure enough, it was hit. Sorry man.

Nailed it!

No need to be sorry. These things happen.

Totally sucks, and been there too! I usually go out of my way to park as far as possible from anyone else as possible, though that's not very practical with NY street parking. Beyond the obvious issue with not leaving contact info, there are clearly a huge number of bad drivers out there and many don't even realize they've caused damage during their parking maneuvers and open door bumps. Few evenings back went out to dinner at a restaurant located in a suburban shopping strip with a huge lot. Adjacent stores were mostly closed and the lot was at most 20% full. I went to the far end of a row and parked in an end spot at last 15 cars down from the last parked car. Come out and the lot is even emptier and someone has still chosen to park (not even straight mind you) in the spot next to me, leaving perhaps 12" between their drivers door and my passenger door. Their vehicle, 10-15 year old SUV- they just don't care. In this case, perhaps a small door scratch on mine but it's been much worse before.

Yup - things like that happen in NYC! I live here and drive all throughout the city and 5 boroughs (my son is a freshman in HS and plays sports in the NYC private school league so my S550 has been everywhere and gets parked on the street everywhere (once I leave my garage).

A recent NYC story - to let you know how horrific some of our fellow human beings are....

I was exiting the West Side Highway southbound ramp at W96th St in stop and go traffic when all of a sudden, I was violently rear-ended from behind (by a guy in a black newish, smallish Acura). My son and I were fine (tho the headrest airbags(??) deployed) but when I went to check on the guy who hit me and call the cops, he was in his drivers seat, swaying back and forth (as if in prayer) and staring at me blankly (at 6pm in sunny April). It took an hour for the cops to come and after walking back to the guy twice (I honestly thought he was strung out on drugs), it turned out he had a seizure and during his seizure on the off ramp, his foot hit the gas and he hit me). He admitted as such to the cops in front of me and was so disoriented that the cops had to drive his car off the ramp so it could be towed. They took him away in an ambulance and I told the officer to write in the report that he said he had a history of seizures (that's what he told us) and hit me during a seizure.

Fast forward a week to when the police report was done and sure enough the accident is correctly written up (including note about seizure) and I call my insurance company and they tell me that he is disrupting the police report and saying that he was not having seizure. After sending photos of him in his car zoned out (I wrongly thought on drugs) during the hour we waited for the cops (he would not leave his car), it got settled in my favor. Turns out the guy was trying to keep his license even though he hit someone in a tank-like Mercedes going 5 MPH. If the seizure happened 5 minutes earlier on the West Side Highway, he could have caused an accident that could have killed him and multiple other people.

But no...he just wants to keep his license. Crazy.

By the way - $12,000 damage to his car (front end) and $3,000 to my S550 which he basically bounced off of.

Morals of story - be cautious driving in NYC; get everything in writing; take pictures and/or videos if you can; and drive the most tank-like car you can afford.

Or the time I was headed into NYC and got cut off by a guy whom I honked at. We got off on the same ramp from the West Side Highway, him in front of me. He stops his car on the ramp, me and others stop behind him and he gets out of the car holding a large knife. I am trapped and he comes back to my car, starts pounding on my drivers window with the knife and yelling at me in some foreign language. Then he sliced the paint on the hood of my car, gets back into his car and speeds off. Cop says to me, "you're lucky" and I was because this was NYC in the early 1990's when 2000 people a year were being murdered.

This is why you should have a C&C.

C&C in NYC? LOL

We have a no fault insurance methodology in Ontario. I got side swiped once. No one around to claim responsibility. I called my insurer and my truck got fixed. A bit like Single Payer Universal Healthcare. You don't worry about things so much and just live your life.

Such unmitigated idiocy!

No fault just drives this mentality. I do not care about other people because I have no responsibility of my actions. Entitled mentality. "I have not sel respect for my accomplishments. The government will take care of me." So weak!

What is that? A Celica? Honestly, it really doesn;t matter on a car like that.

Doesn't matter what kind of car it is. People's property should be respected regardless of what it is. Still shows the lack of values by these animals!

Leave it to Carlosasshatter to say something moronic. Carlos, I am assuming you're OK with all of us nicking your cr and driving away?

This is why I prefer to drive an older sled that frankly I don't care if someone love bumps me or not. Gone are the days that I would stress about where I parked and whom I parked around (brand snobbery?) or having to park at the back of the lot.

Low lifes that hit and run should loose their licence for 1 year or be chemically castrated.

"Carlos, I am assuming you're OK with all of us nicking your cr and driving away?"

My cars have been dinged up through the years - it happens - to me and millions of other people in the country every year. And I'm sure a lot of us have been pissed off about it too. Are we all supposed to write an online article about it every time it happens?

So to recap, you're saying that if you hit someone's car, you have no moral obligation to do the right thing and own up to it. Would you also be OK with someone sleeping with your wife or your husband (whichever is appropriate not that I'm judging)?

just about every new car i get, has gotten hit while parked so the last couple of years, i started making money on it.
i invested in a dash camera that records full time even while parked - blackvue dr650 2 ch. and ive been able to catch the guys license plates when they hit me so ive just been suing them instead of coming out of pocket.
I live in nyc, its totally worth investing in a dash camera !!!

Indeed. You are quite wise to do that.

Unfortunately, decency seems to be a thing of the past. The way the world is 'advancing' leads me to believe that people won't let decency get in the way of saying and doing things that otherwise would have caused shock just a few years ago.