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I had one car some years ago (BMW 7 series), had five replacement doors on it in five years - all from people hitting it in car parks.
The problem was the car was pretty wide, and would tend to fill spaces, so people in 4x4s etc as they swung in would hit it. I was always parked straight and in a bay.
Only had one note left, got all excited - only to read 'People think I'm leaving my number'.
Bastard!
These days, if I find myself in a space that's a bit tight, or one of the cars either side has parked in a sloppy way that makes me doubt their ability to leave without hitting me (or just denting my door with theirs getting in) I take a photo that clearly shows the lines delineating the spaces and their registration. I've never been dented or hit since!
A friend of mine bumped or scraped another car twice when he was a kid - no more than about 21 years old, if memory serves. Shamefully, on neither occasion did he leave a note.
Karma is an amazing thing though, because since then, it's happened to my friend a number of times - once resulting in a complete right off.
My friend is a much more mature and considerate person nowadays and wouldn't dream of not doing the right thing should such an incident ever arise again.
I've got a driving licence that allows me to drive a minibus (as long as it isn't being used for hire or reward, so I can transport people for free, such as for a school trip, but not run a bus route and collect fares) with or without a trailer. I'm also allowed to tow trailers with my car and drive a medium-sized truck (class C1) with or without a trailer. I've never taken a test for any of those things because I got my licence in 1976 and they just gave them to you in those days. How daft is that? Never done any of those things and don't intend to...
I panicked and drove off. I'm not proud of it. I was young and stupid. Had I not been over the limit, I would have knocked on the doors of nearby houses until I found the owner. As it was, if I'd done that, it would have been a dead-cert that I would have lost my licence - which is why I panicked and drove off. The reality is that I would have hit the car whether I'd been drinking or not as I'd still have slammed on my brakes and still have skidded the same way. I've never drinked and drived since that day.
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About 10 years ago I backed into a Mondeo, I had a 50p sized dent on my car, the Ford however, I wasn't quite sure what I'd done as it was pretty knackered anyway. The front end that I'd hit had had previous damage all over it. It was parked outside a doctors surgery so I went in, found the (very nice) lady who owned it and exchanged details. She simply said not to worry about it as her car was knackered anyway.
Fast forward 24 hours, she'd got the military police involved (it happened on a military base) who pulled me in for not reporting an accident and had her car written off as I'd caused all of the major front end damage. They were initially going to try and throw the book at me.
I don't know if her claim was successful but when the MP's compared the damage on my car they left me alone.
It doesn't always pay to be completely honest in this world.