Damn kids on bikes

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aquazi

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 Derby + N. London
So a few weeks back a little girl (maybe about 10) dropped her bike and it hit my car - while i was chatting to some people. She said it only hit the wheel and was very apologetic... a quick glance i thought there was no damage - and accidents happen after all.

Cleaned my car and found the damage - luckily it was only the wheel (stuffed up the aperture in taking the pic :roll: ).

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Also found a door ding on my drivers front wing :x

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So all in all not a pleasant cleaning experience... should have left it dirty... ignorance is bliss
 
Feel your pain there, hate finding blemishes.

Also hate kids on bikes & kids playing ball games near my car - especially as there is a park 200m away :thumbsdown:
 
I have the same prob here the halfwit and his kid will insist on kicking a ball about in the cul-de-sac which annoys me and the GF,soon as they are out i make a point of putting the car in the garage.
And within spitting distance is a nice park they could kick a ball till his hearts content :wkr:
 
Nearly got one yesterday afternoon....a teenage kid stopped at the end of a pathway the leads into the middle of a "Tee" intersection, goofball coming the other way stopped and the kid started to zip out into the intersection, heard my brakes and stopped.....lucky kid! Could've scratched up the front of my Z3 :wink:

THe problem is that PEDESTRIANS have right of way at all intersections here. BUT, if you stay on your bike you're still a vehicle and have to follow the rules of the road, and you have to be at the crosswalk not in the middle of the intersection. This kid was in the middle and still on his bike ...and close to a near death experience as I was doing 30mph as he started to move forward into the road. It would have been a lot of work cleaning the blood off the front and then fixing the dents.....at the parents expense of course, that could have been a bit sticky to say the least.
 
Kid free, but think its the parents rather than the kids themselves - need to be given guidelines of what is & is not acceptable / sensible. I managed as a kid with such guidance.

Kid next door playing / kicking a rugby ball in the road, him & his friend unable to catch / predict the bounce - it is just waiting to happen.....

Not to mention the space hopper that 'somehow' bounced over a 6ft fence or the parents' view that playing with a cricket ball & being unable to keep it from my garden when hit at speed is somehow me just being petty. Given the cricket ball & how often it happens I'm amazed that a person / car has not been injured yet.

Not being grouchy / anti-kid or blaming all parents before I get a flaming!

Matt
 
+1 on ALL of the above!!!! :evil: -fooking big playing field at the bottom of our street,yet they kick rugby balls high in the air,obviously they cant tell how they are going to bounce. :cry:
 
andysat said:
+1 on ALL of the above!!!! :evil: -fooking big playing field at the bottom of our street,yet they kick rugby balls high in the air,obviously they cant tell how they are going to bounce. :cry:
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Yeah, WTF? I saw my neighbours playing Football in the road with their kids. The damn park is right there...no fence , no distance away, right effing there. About 6 inches away across the curb. :headbang:
 
I am quite fortunate that the area i live in doesnt have kids which kick a ball around... but i can remember myself as a kid playing footie down out road with parked cars on the drive :oops:

I dont have any kids myself... but i dont blame the girl which did this.... my car was just in the wrong place at the wrong time; and she was very apologetic... its only a wheel... could have been much worse! Looking into getting new wheels now anyway.. so this is just more of a motivation for me :P
 
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