Legal Question

[KeWLKaT]

Alright, there are two kids in the street in front of me who always play in the street. next to my car.

If (and when) they end up scratching/damaging it, what should I do?

Are their parents responsible for the damage?

Thanks.

[cclngthr]

Yes, they, and the kids would be responsible. I also would advise you file a complaint with the police to attempt to prevent any damage before hand; which it sounds as if the parents are not responsible enough to be parents.

[o2coolchris]

Yeah, I'd say file some kind of complaint now, so that if/when damage does occur, you can provide proof that you tried to prevent it, and that the kids are just irresponsible punks who should pay for any damages done.

[Nerraux]

As a human, I would talk to the kids first, then the parents, then register a complaint. I think a lot more could be solved these days if people would go back to being neighbors and not prisoners in their own homes.

The status quo, however would be to register your complaint. If it's a small town, you may need to do that with the police. In a larger town there's often some kind of "code enforcement" officer that handles complaints like that and people not mowing their grass enough, and people shoveling their snow into the street, etc. In Canada, who knows? You people are all fugged up.

[BlackElantraGT]

I agree with Nerraux's suggestions.

[KeWLKaT]

Canada sucks.

Alright, I'll TRY talking to them neighboors, but he's gonna start with the ''You don't have a heart, don't you know my child has a growth disease, you're going to take the only thing from him that he has, which is playing in the streets, away?''. I'll try, but if it doesn't work, I'll advise the town pigs and some neighboor of mine too so I can have a ''witness''.

Forgot to mention: my mom's car already got a big scratch on but just because she saw it on another day after what happened, it was hard to prove that the children were the cause of it.

[GTSTISL]

http://www.flamethrowers.com.au/images/flame%20thrower%20nissan%20skyline%20gtr.gif http://www.gettingit.com/art/scope/technophilia990920_art2.gif- Marshmellows anyone?

[SuperGLS]

What are they doing exactly? They aren't throwing bricks around are they? This one lady always got mad at us for playing football in the street with a Nerf football, it never did any damage when it hit cars. I mean, kids are kids. Chances are if you talk to them about it they'll understand, or completely opposite, they'll try to mess up the car on purpose.

Kids play all the time in the street here, I've never had any problems, I'm definitely more worried about parking next to idiots in parking lots.

Good luck.

[Mr. Dan]

I live in an apartment surrounded by stupid, stupid people and their inbred children. My car just sits there looking pretty and minding its own business and I have literally dozens of little nicks and scratches from the afore mentioned parents and kids. Two or three from bike handle bars, one or two low ones from the pedals a whole bunch of little ones I could not figure out and one huge mark on the hood from a very dirty sandy soccerball impacting it. While I am willing to admit that it is unlikely that those kids did any of it intentionally, their parents ARE responsible for having such stupid children and then letting them play near people's property. Unless you actually witness them doing it, there is nothing you can do about it though. They can always claim the damage occured at some other time while you were out. Even if you had a camera on the car 24/7 it would be a hard sell. Unfortunately being a bad parent isn't a crime.

All you can really do is talk to the parents and hope they are receptive to the idea, and then hope the kids actually listen to their parents. I wish you luck. I don't wish my semi regular ritual of swearing and shaking my fist at the apartment complex on anyone. Bad for blood pressure. :)

P.S. One little bastard actually carved "fool" in Korean into the hood, thing is where it was done, you'd have to be tall to reach, so I'm thinking it was one of the ever so incompetent and inept fathers that did it after I yelled at him for, surpise, being stupid and inconsiderate about parking. I hate my neighbors. Can you tell? :stupid:

[4mynikka]

I'd caution the kids about "playing" so near to your car. Sometimes being polite and courteous towards others pays off. If they continue to disregard your requests then speak to their parents, now if the parents still fail to discipline their children and your car actually gets damaged, ask the parents to pay for the damages. Now at this point if the parents don't comply to your kind requests........

1) F*ck reporting it, no one will do ****, Slash their tires.....
2) if they still don't get it egg their house.......
3) if they still don't get it a nice brick through the windshield and keying the sh*t out of their car does the job.

if they still don't get the point at least you feel better. :)

[GTSTISL]

my dad used to be nerotic about kids playin near his car in the townhouse. it was a bad neighborhood (he got his radio stolen) and their were always kids playin around the car. a little girl fell on her bike and almost slammed into the car (thankfully the car was fine, kid was bruised). you cant really do anything, just throw tomato soup cans at the kids heads.

[surreelantra]

Canada sucks.

Alright, I'll TRY talking to them neighboors, but he's gonna start with the ''You don't have a heart, don't you know my child has a growth disease, you're going to take the only thing from him that he has, which is playing in the streets, away?''.

Heh. You're gonna give the brat a growth disease if he Fs with your car. :D

That excuse is pathetic. A kid's disability doesn't condone bad parenting. He breaks it, mom and dad bought it. Plain and simple.

[XTRAWLD]

See, my problem with venting out the anger to the neighbor is that more bad $hit will happen to my car or home......It's such a lose lose situation....I'm glad that right now I'm not in that situation, but I fear that one day I will be considering my new street is littered with the little devils.

[KeWLKaT]

I started parking my car in another spot now... hope that will fix it :(