smashed up porsche

[lofty]

Did anyone see the smashed up porsche on Ashbourne Road last night...someones jealous....its was keyed all over the bonnet and down the side, the front window damaged and the side and rear windows smashed.

The boys in blue where there looking puzzled.

[Asset]

maybe a scorned ex

[Jah Lush]

Yeah, hell hath not fury, etc etc.

[Keef]

That was my first though too. Kids might key a car a bit, but too properly damage it you need to be really pi$$ed off with the flash git who owns it.

[Brendan]

What type of Porsche is it?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Haha, I wish my ex had owned a flash car I could have trashed!

[Nero]

But Chav, you have a law degree! Nero

[snorky]

How Ashbourne has changed in the past few years. Once upon a time you could actually park on it, without getting involved in a "dropped kerb" argument with some new arrival.

I have witnessed guardian reader / upstanding people damage cars that have dared poke a bumper across someone recently dropped kerb.Irrelevant that there was plenty of access to the paved garden area at the time, and no one was actually blocked in.

Still, its better to scratch someones car when they are on LL broweing amongst the overpriced tat , than to actually SPEAK to them when they get get back. Thye could have KNIFE on them you know.

There are some long term residents that its probably best not to irk too much if you get what I mean

[Siduhe]

Doubt it's connected, but I got quite a fright when I turned into Melford Road off LL early on Sunday to find a smashed up car halfway across the street (near the corner by that block of flats with all the wood). Looked very much like someone had lost control, smashed into the parked cars and then legged it...

[Jah Lush]

It's been there a while that car Siduhe hasn't it. Melford Road has always been since I've lived there a street where from time to time cars seem to get dumped, presumably after being nicked by joyriders.

[Siduhe]

It looks to have been moved to the side of the road now, but first time I had seen it (and was lightly steaming, so I assumed a fairly recent addition to the area). Perhaps a repeat performance?

There's another one up by the corner with Underhill Road though which I've phoned the Council about before.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

"But Chav, you have a law degree! Nero" - sorry, old habits die hard!

[nuttynat19]

Its a bit worrying to read this because my car was damaged at the weekend, I went to get into it on Saturday morning to find someone had smashed the rear window screen and tried to steal one of my alloys :(

I dont have an anger Ex so I haven't got a clue whose done it and no point in telling the police as there isn't much to show apart from broken glass so they won't be interested....This is now the 3rd time my car has been damaged in East Dulwich since I moved here last year, last time someone slashed my tyre.

Either I've really upset someone (god knows who) or my car is jinxed and bad luck! (6)

Now looking to move out of the area when my tenacy agreement ends, as I have never experienced such bad car crime.

[snorky]

Sorry to hear it nat - stuff happens sometimes - may not be your fault - this is London after all, and you have to accept the odd scrape and scratch, but not usually broken wiondows unless the crackheads have been in the area - these usually go in spates.

Tyre slashing is usually personal - as I was saying, even the chattering classes do it to their neighbours xcars now , rather than speak to them and sort a problem out.

[Maurice]

Poor thieves and vandals. I blame the car owners.

[Jeremy]

nuttynat19 - there are plenty of places in London with far worse car crime, I guess you've just been very unlucky. I'm intrigued though, do you have a "posh" car? My car's always been fine apart from one little accidental knock, but it is a bit of a heap and I can't imagine anyone vandalising it out of jealousy!

[McSporran]

Bizarrely, we had someone walk over our [not posh] car a couple of months back, I'd guess kids mucking about - noticeable because the car was so dirty that the evidence was plain to see - I should've taken a couple of moulds! A couple of small dents which is fairly irritating. Don't know if they 'played' the whole road.

[Nero]

There is a theory that some cars are not targeted by vandals and the like simply because they are so cool. It's the whole respect thing (which in this case actually does mean respect rather than fear). Nero

[jonsuissy]

"Posted by: Keef Yesterday, 02:18PM

you need to be really pi$$ed off with the flash git who owns it."

Posted by: Maurice Yesterday, 04:49PM

"Poor thieves and vandals. I blame the car owners."

My God I didn't know this forum had such vicious and unthinking contributors. The "Flash git" happens to be a nice quiet unassuming guy who seems to believe in all the right things. Why should he be to blame?

Of course Keef & Maurice could be the proud possessors of a very dry sense of irony and if this is the case then I most humbly apologies.

If not, then shame on you two.

[SeanMacGabhann]

jonsuissy - I understand why you might think that but 2 different examples there methinks

Keef's post (as I understand it) was just to clarify the likelyhood that it would be someone known to the owner for a car to be damaged so badly - he's not condoning it but explaining that when things gets personal they can be more viscious than random acts

Maurice on the other hand (again, as I understand it) has continued his tone from other threads wherby he seems to think we are all on the side of criminals. Personally I can't find ANYTHING on this thread to back that up but I could be blind

[mockney piers]

Maurice is doing a straw man insinuating that empathy for addicts and support of treatment = wilful damage of private property.

Not all that convinced myself, but he's entitled to make his point.

[jonsuissy]

Sean - yes I got that bit (and can understand why he says that) its the "flash git" bit I thought was totally outrageous.

MP - yes he is entitled to make his point - doesn't make very good reading though.

I was so disappointed to read those 2 original comments, I thought this was an enlightened house.

Anyway, let's move on.

[mockney piers]

Keef's normally a pretty enlightened poster tbh, but he may have been a little guilty of stereotyping in this instance.

Mind you, with the average car speed in london dipping below 10mph I can't see much use for a porsche in this fair city.

[*Bob*]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Mind you, with the average car speed in london

> dipping below 10mph I can't see much use for a

> porsche in this fair city.

I think this is where the posing / flash git part comes in.

[Brendan]

Does anyone know what type of porsche it is/was.

these things are important.