Vandals strike again dammit.

[Dan in NZ]

I washed my car on Sunday, so it was looking great. Tuesday morning, I go to use the car again, and I see footprints on the hood and a nice dent in the raised section. Also where the battery sits under the hood, two of the pins that hold the hood liner in place have pushed some small dents up.

Earlier this year the car was keyed, right down to the metal. Had to get the panel repainted, because it was starting to rust.

I guess this is just part of living in a university town...

[Nick.Hay]

I'd cry...

I'm off to uni next year, and am a bit dubious about taking the BMW with me...

[pundit]

I washed my car on Sunday, so it was looking great. Tuesday morning, I go to use the car again, and I see footprints on the hood and a nice dent in the raised section. Also where the battery sits under the hood, two of the pins that hold the hood liner in place have pushed some small dents up.

Earlier this year the car was keyed, right down to the metal. Had to get the panel repainted, because it was starting to rust.

I guess this is just part of living in a university town...

Just find out where they live, something of theirs they really like and then trash it in front of them and wish them a nice day!... Scumbags!

[Incantation]

sorry to hear that man.. no alarm?

[rickm]

Just find out where they live, something of theirs they really like and then trash it in front of them and wish them a nice day!... Scumbags!

Like one of their sheep.

I've had mine shot at by a BB gun recently, I know who did it I just need to catch that POS anywhere near here again. Damn kids.

[Dan in NZ]

The problem here, is living near the university and town center... Every weekend there's a constant stream of drunk people walking past. A friend down the road has a Mercedes, and his grill star and headlight wipers have been ripped off so many times he just goes without.

If you have an alarm, people just set it off every five minutes...

What I need, is to connect the positive lead of the battery to the chassis, so that if someone touches the car it grounds through their body...

[E34-520iSE]

Sorry to hear about what happened to your car - it's bad news. Is there any off-road parking nearby? Or someone with a long driveway that'll allow you to park your car on it for a small fee?

Cheers,

Shaun

[SRR2]

What I need, is to connect the positive lead of the battery to the chassis, so that if someone touches the car it grounds through their body...

Eh, let me guess. You're a psychology major? History? Ancient romance languages? I KNOW you're not in any technical discipline!

Now seriously. Think about what you said here. You're proposing to connect the positive lead of the battery to the chassis of the car, which is already connected to the NEGATIVE lead. Um, seems to me that that's a prescription for AN EXPLODING BATTERY! IOW, ain't gonna work, Dan. Besides, 12V won't hurt a flea, though it wouldn't matter if you had a 100,000 Volt battery in there and had its posive lead connected to the chassis, there'd still be nothing making a complete circuit to ground, which is what I suspect you had in mind in the first place (give them a shock they'd remember?).

Now, on the other hand, I do remember once seeing a web site where a guy with the same problem you have cooked up a taser-like non-leathal high-voltage shocker that had a little pigtail that dragged on the ground to make the ground connection, and that energized the chassis to a fairly high voltage. Dunno how successful the idea was in practice (what happens when the tires got wet in the rain?), or whether he was able to defend himself from the reckless homicide charges that probably happened when some moron with a heart condition accidentally touched his car and fell over dead. Some time spent at Google will probably find the info on how to do this if you really want to pursue it.

[Qube]

That's absolutely horrible! Though I imagine it's a cheaper fix than getting brake fluid on it or keyed again!

Anyway... so... we're talking something like James Bond had... some type of electric field. Shields up!

[genphreak]

bad news Paul. I was walking home 2 weeks back around 9pm and there was some uni student girl in the street near Syndey Uni, screaming at some person on her mobile. She was more and more upset, then she really lost it and jumped on the bonnet of a little Honda. She screamed down the phone and started jumping up and down in anger... bang bang bang and then then she went for the roof bang bang banga bang and then the boot and off... she went loopy.

Count oursleves lucky guys, that car was an insurance write off. A real mess. the metal is thins as ****...