My truck was getting spit until recently, and now it's your truck. I wonder when it is going to stop!

 

My friend ended up with coke all over the hood of his car on a 100 degree day in the sun. I messed the paint up really bad. He found out who did it and that kis got a nice big slab of ham on the hood of his 'Vette. I just don't get the mindset of these people (my friend included).

 

I'm serious, if I ever caught someone in the act of doing such a thing to my truck... I may not shoot them in the eye, but I will definately shoot them in the ***** and then stick my foot in their mouth. Vandals and thieves **** me off.

 

A "slab of ham", literally? Or am I missing something? Just wondering what a slab of ham would do. That's very creative.

I'd probably go for a dead fish in the air duct or something. Or maybe drain all of their oil.

 

A dead fish in the air duct... that is a good one, I'll have to remember that. Draining the oil is good too. It really was a slab of ham. All the salt and cureness (not a word, I know) of the ham will eat right through the paint on a really hot day. When the kid took it off his hood, they was a big spot where it had been. It eventually rusted and he needed a new hood. Poor $50,000 Vette lol. The ham is pretty big here. Sometimes with two eggs on the side. In high school a lot of people got their cars and trucks messed up. Another one is making the wheel wells bigger by cutting into the fender with a can opener or sawsall. I never really got my other truck messed up. I was lucky. The bets prank ever was we wired fireworks into one of my friend's starter on his car and placed them to the right of his car about 10 feet so the didn't mess anything up and the hotwired to horn to the positive side of the battery. When he started the car up at 9 at night after a football game all hell broke loose.

 

I wasn't going to say anything, but this is your second reference in this thread to shooting someone. I'm very much pro-gun (I own several), but maybe you shouldn't have any. Guns should be reserved for life-threatening circumstances. Otherwise, it becomes to easy for the anti-gun lobby to take them away. You don't want the whole country to become like the People's Republic of California.

As good as it might feel at the moment, committing ANY felony over egged paint is not a good choice. I think they should be caught and punished harshly, but I wouldn't risk a prison sentence to do it. There are far more creative ways.

Back on topic: I have a motion sensing webcam that paid for itself when it caught a contractor cheating on his hours. Low-light infrared cameras are getting pretty cheap, and many have the motion-sensing features built right in. A wireless webcam would take pics of the perp in the act. Sure, you don't get the satisfaction of kicking his a**, or shooting him(!!), but you could get a new paint job out of it, and HE would be the one sharing the cell with Bubba, not you.

Just my $0.02, and definitely NOT trying to turn this into a gun thread.

 

Yes I know... I would never shoot anyone unless they were trying to hurt me or my family or those I love, but it is called sarcasm... I mean, can you take a guy with a big blue lookin creature with big eyes for his pic seriously? Nah.... but I would wanna hurt them. In all honesty, any retaliation outside of law enforcement is probably gonna come back and bite you in the a**. My brother is a lawyer (very successful, might I add) and he said more time than not the perpetrator in any crime gets the victim in more trouble than the perp himself. Kinda sucks doesn't it?? Kel I am pro-gun too and I agree with you on their use and place... please don't take me seriously on that one. The best thing to do in this scenario is try and catch the perp in the act with evidence!! Then prosecute!

 

I call bull*****.

1) A fiberglass hood rusting?

2) Horn to the positive side of battery would blow from 1st contact...not when key turned.

 

I'm laying down... 3 kings.

 

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Washed off the egg ok, but the shells, that did leave some scratches on impact and the ones I made when cleaning.

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I will try the clay and give it a good waxing. Hope to do it this week if not this weekend.

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Not to worry. Yes I am pissed but sglynxl is right I would only end up with my butt in jail. I was going to sleep in my jeep but it was to cold and I am too old to stay up all night and go to work. Had a BBQ and a few beers that night. Beers…sitting in jeep with keys ready to roll…not a good plan.

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Anyway I am going to look into one of the computer cam security systems. A month or so ago someone was driven around shooting out the windows of parked cars. Great neighborhood to live in

 

You want revenge? I don't go for the slab of ham or stinky fish, that is too easy.

Remove all of the offender's lug nuts off of his/her car. All of them. Tires will fall off at a low enough speed that no one should get hurt. It will ruin someone's day. They will not forget the experience.

You will get extra credit for getting the ugly episode on video.

 

See, Redford... I'm off the same school of thought. But if they catch you for that you will get sued to kingdom come and also will face charges, probably go to jail for attempted vehicular manslaughter. Aren't the laws, lawmakers, and lawyers a BITCH!?!? Basically, the most safe way to go would be to go right up to their face and non-offensively, non-racially motivated, completely vanilla-like and say "Meanie!". That'll really teach them.... short of that method of relieving anger, punching them... shooting them... even calling them dirty names (even if it's true) can all land you in the pen. Like I said, catching them and then suing the ***** off of them is the most effective method... except for then they will probably try and burn your house down and stupid krap like that. Laws really do protect the offenders more than the offended.

 

Anything that did not go all the way through the color coat can be clayed and waxed to the point of it being hard to find (even if you know its there).

The first time mine got egged, it was in the middle of the summer and I didn't notice it for two days (based on where I parked and where the shells were) ....it looked really bad after just washing.

After the clay and wax job, the paint looks perfect except for the two sets of saturns rings that are chipped into the paint.

Word of warning....you will probably have to clay the whole thing.....where you clay will be so much slicker and shinier that where you don't.

 

Heh heh.... ...and while you're at it, hold a color printout up to their face of them doing the deed. I wish I could have gotten a photo of that painting contractor's face, in small claims court, when I held up a printout of his boy washing his truck with my hose, when he was supposed to be pressure-washing my house. Priceless!! And yes, I won.

That is the drag about stuff like this, it just goes on and on... My GF had neighbors like this, always looking for trouble, and if you engaged them, it just never ended.

The only consolation might be that they acted out of spite, or jealousy, or something like that, so obvioulsy their life is probably in the toilet already. You'll fix your truck, and move on. They'll go on being miserable.

 

Come on guys... Yes, it sucks that some high school kids got their kicks by egging your truck, but I hardly think it warrants the death penalty :-) And I highly doubt it will cause any lasting damage.

Now the SOB who keyed my Touareg the very day I picked it up....

But seriously, I just got through counciling a friend who's life is now completely screwed because he punched a guy who aggressively approached him over a parking space dispute. Of course he did need to resuscitate him after a single well placed punch put him into respiratory arrest. Put a weapon in the equation, and you are going to spend either lots of money on lawyers or lots of time in jail. Or both. Either way, the shiny new truck will be a distant memory.