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Originally Posted by extrashaky

Years ago a girlfriend of mine had her car sideswiped like this, so I went around the parking lot looking for paint transfer with my Polaroid (that should give you an idea how long ago it was). I found the likely culprit parked behind a hair salon adjacent to the apartment building and very conspicuously started taking photographs.

Within a couple of minutes I heard a girl going into the back door of the salon yell, "Hey, some guy's taking pictures of your car out here." Immediately the owner flew out the door shrieking that I didn't have the right to take pictures of her car and threatening to call the police. I sent her into a higher level of hysteria by taking a Polaroid of her also and went back to my girlfriend's place to call the cops myself. Today I would have recorded a funny video of her freaking out on my cell phone.

The cop showed up, looked at both cars and said, "If she won't own up to it, there's nothing I can do without a witness. Let me go talk to her and see what happens."

About ten minutes later he came back and said, "Well, she admitted it, so we'll write this up as her fault." He had her insurance card and driver's license with him, so my girlfriend never had to even deal with her.

Another time one of my neighbors backed his blue boat (on a trailer) into my red truck, then parked it and pretended nothing happened. Blue paint on my truck. Red paint on his boat.

Cop came out and said it was obvious what happened, but he wasn't all that enthusiastic about talking with the guy. He went downstairs and came right back up saying the guy denied it, and without a witness there was nothing the cop could do. So I had to eat that one.

The moral of the story is call the police and have them make a report. You might get lucky and get a cop actually willing to do his job. You might not. The person who hit you might be dumb enough to admit it. Might not. Trying it loses you nothing.

With my truck, the guy all but admitted it to me later when he thought I had retaliated when I hadn't. He was a little too paranoid about retribution. After some other nonsense with this idiot, I eventually did get even. But even though I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has long since run out, I'll keep that to myself.

I want closure after reading this long post. I'm all invested