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Originally Posted by mattles

I wasnt keeping very good track of the car, so it could have happened Friday night or Saturday sometime during the day. It was either starbucks on camelback @ 16th oooor somewhere in oldtown snobsdale. Im thinking most likely starbucks saturday morning though since its one of the few times I parked the car in an open lot, during the day, next to other cars, out my eyesight for atleast 45 minutes.
Its been too hot and Ive been too lazy to try my hand at repairing it. The subaru paint pen looks very easy to use, though.

I was gonna proceed thusly:
- tape off area
- wash thoroughly
- strip wax/etc
- IPA rub down
- wear gloves
- go to work with increasingly more abrasive compounds (clearcoat only though) to minimize the clearcoat damage (hand only, no orbital)
- after the clear coat only scratches have been buffed out, fill in deep color scratches with paint pen
- use my nifty scratch repair compound to smooth out the paint pen after its dry
- more hand buffing/finishing
- check it under some briiiight lighting
- cleaner/polish/sealant/wax then check the reflection again and see how I did

If all that fails, fuck it the car is going off to a paint correction specialist for all work just short of a full repaint.

Man that sucks. I'd bet it was Old Town on Friday night though. Lots of drunk morons down there.

Originally Posted by Dave-ROR

That's not true at all.

You have to feel that your life or someone elses is in mortal danger, not just "that guy scared me". There are cases where people have tried to use the Stand your Ground defense and it's failed, because it was clearly outside the requirements. IMO Zimmerman's case is not covered under Stand Your Ground either. Right now he's charged with 2nd Degree Murder and honestly I think that's a stretch. They should have gone for manslaughter as they have in similar cases (in which Stand Your Ground immunity claims have been denied btw, as I expect it will be in the Zimmerman case).

However, if someone does break into my house at 4AM I'm not going to have a conversation with them to see what their intentions are. That would be a stand your ground case (assuming the person wasn't trying to run out of your house when you woke up). Before that people got SUED (or worse) in Florida for defending themselves in their own home.

Everyone needs to focus on facts that come out in the Zimmerman case and get over the Stand Your Ground law.

I agree wholeheartedly.