Beacher

We've all see grossly overloaded vehicles, like the elephants in the back of a regular pickup truck or entire families on scooters. The worst I've seen is 7 teenage students with a guitar and small amplifier squeeze their way onto a scooter. Two of them were standing and leaning outwards, one holding the guitar and the other holding the amplifier while their buddies anchored them. It looked very much like a circus act. It was at a beach and everybody nearby was howling with laughter as the scooter slowly started to move. Amazingly, they made it up the hill going away from the beach, but what happened after that I'm afraid to think about.

Man o man, what a wild thread. Between the personal insults /  threats between members and the variety of advise, forums don't get much more entertaining (in a bit of a perverse way, unfortunately).

IMHO the most sensible advise is to not retaliate (immediately, anyway). This will surely escalate into something very unpleasant and perhaps even tragic in the end.

I favour the idea of bringing a BIB connection into the picture. At the very least, this would send the message that the perpetrator's actions are not being taken lightly, and may scare him enough to settle him down and not vandalize your car or any of your property again.

However, if some sort of retaliation is the preference, I would be tempted to abandon the parking space and instead buy some horrible old piece of sh*t car to park there 24/7 -- one that is very old and ugly. This way he can scratch it as much as he likes while it drives him crazy. Park it there in the middle of the night, and when he asks about it, the OP should just say, "Must look after house." repeatedly or some similar drivel. In essence, this will become his new lawn ornament and will most certainly send him to the loony bin. I'm sure the OP can find some awful old near-wreck for very little money that should suit the purpose very well.

Wow!  What have I been missing?

"The Almighty and Powerful wizard..."   This guy is undoubtedly delusional and certifiable -- ready for the loony bin.

Also, Isn't he flirting a bit with the Lèse majesté law by referring to himself as royalty? (Although, I suppose he isn't actually claiming to be Thai royalty and could be putting himself among British royalty -- Poor old Liz.)

Deeral, on 2010-09-08 09:49:28, said:

Actually, I was just making a play on words.  

In no way at all have I intended to criticize what appears to be a victim by calling him a fool or old, and hopefully nobody else interpreted my post that way.

Now I remember why I haven't logged on here for ages.

Colabamumbai, on 2010-09-08 07:54:30, said:

hmmmm....blind and one-sided. I wonder if that's where the expression "blindsided" comes from.

• 
  blindsidedpast participle, past tense of blind side (Verb)
  1. Hit or attack (someone) on the blind side:  "Jenkins blindsided Adams".2. Catch (someone) unprepared; attack from an unexpected position.

   (From Wikipedia)

Joking aside, I'm sorry to hear about your rotten situation. Good luck with it.

(Haven't logged on here in many months -- looks like nothing has changed, in general.)