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Originally Posted by fatalelement
As someone with a fair amount of actual legal experience, making people bristly early on is a one-way ticket to No-Cooperationville, Population: everyone who you need something from. Only ever threaten someone as your absolute last resort, when being reasonable is explicitly something they said they aren't interested in hearing.
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You're right that it's usually better to coax what you need out of people. I audit people for a living, and I usually get the documentation and information I need from them a lot easier by keeping it positive and friendly.
However, there may be a time element here you're overlooking. If they are recording video to a server that overwrites after a certain amount of time, the footage may be in danger of being lost. They have already stalled to the point that I'm wondering if the relevant footage even exists any more. I would be willing to become a nuisance in this sort of situation to make sure my only evidence wasn't lost as a result of incompetence or worse.
Everybody seems to be treating this as no big deal. It's only door dings, right?
I have a small (1/2") ding in my hood from a rock tossed up by a truck. The body shop estimated that it would cost about $600 to fix it because the dent has to be pulled and the entire hood repainted. PDR is not an option because the rock cut down to the primer.
OP now has several dings in his car on multiple body panels. Chances are pretty good he's into thousands of dollars in damage, despite the fact that it doesn't show up in a picture. This is not a small matter. This is something that needs to be stopped immediately to prevent further damage, and it really doesn't sound like the school is taking it seriously. It sounds to me as though they are humoring what they see as an angry parent who will just go away if they keep smiling and give him time.
He doesn't have to sue them to get results, but I think we're in agreement that some pressure is necessary, if for no other reason to get it into their heads that he isn't just going to let it go.