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I’d like to know, ‘cos it happened to me tonight on my way home. Just coming into town on a B-road that joins the A4 Bath road, and there’s a hell of a bang on the side of the car, got home and had a look, and there’s smashed egg all over the door. Washed it off, and the impact was enough to damage the paint! Metallic finish, so that’s probably a couple of hundred quid to fix. Bloody fuming, I’ve made a report to the police, just in case there’s been a spate of these happening, but I don’t expect the police to be able to do anything.
I do have a dashcam, and I ran the recording, and I can see someone on the opposite side of the road, but it’s not that clear on the camera screen. I’ve had it several years, and it won’t link with the wifi on my pad, it needs a firmware update, which is a phaff, as I need a MicroSD card.
Have to contact my insurance company and sort it out, which is more hassle than I bloody need at the moment.
🤬😡🤯
Because kids can be dicks.
Unless you have a really low excess you’re probably better off just paying a body shop to sort it for you.
(I had what looked like a kids handlebar and pedal in one of my doors 2 years ago, was just under £300 to sort. My xs is £200 but I bet I would have paid more than £100 on my premiums. I also hit a deer in May last year, that I did claim for).
Not taking the pee here but won't it buff out? Has it gone through the clear lacquer?
I think this type of crap is just random anti social behaviour to be honest.
Hell, people have thrown bricks off flyover on motorways at cars. There are some real dicks out there.
Back in the days of random house parties my mate and I used to have egg races in microwaves.
Number the eggs, take bets, set microwave to 5 minutes and off you go.
Turnips and swedes is what they like to throw down here. Makes a bigger dent than an egg.
Probably not what's happened in your case but I have read of instances whereby gangs have targeted nice cars by way of egging the windscreen in the hope that it makes the drivers stop so they can rob them. Drivers' first reactions are to use the wipers which smears the egg all over the windscreen making driving nigh on impossible. They're then attacked by said gangs.
2 of my lads were abseiling a tower block in Somerstown, Portsmouth replacing window mastic last year and got eggs thrown at them by the local scrotey kids.
I was going to say the gangs round her come into your house take your keys and car.
Kids get bored and go egging or knock and run.
Was bricks at buses were I grew up! Remember years ago some kids lobbed grapes at my car, was only a stop gap £100 shitter so I never bothered washing them off and they stained the paint
It’s certainly not a new phenomenon - happened to me on High Street, Kensington in 1994 and it left a ring in the paint on my bonnet. What worried me most was that, as I was driving an open top, it could have been a lot worse. Also if it had been something more solid . . .
Remember years ago some kids lobbed grapes at my car,
There's no point wining about it now.
I have been known to throw eggs at a Young Conservatives mini bus but that was when I was 16 (yes I even hated tories when I was 16) and a bit more "action" orientated.
Pfft. Amateurs.
Round my way the little shits bricked the Christmas Santa Bus
Loads of kids go round the block for 30 minutes on a bus driven by santa, with tinsel and flashing lights
Till the little shites bricked the windscreen
I'm going to the other end of the social spectrum from bored kids and say ...
Stay at home Nazis !!
Why are you involving your insurance company for a minor paint job?
Egg, Chips-away and beans will sort that for you.
Back in the days of random house parties my mate and I used to have egg races in microwaves.
Number the eggs, take bets, set microwave to 5 minutes and off you go.
Wild times. The stories you could tell, eh?
Bloody fuming, I’ve made a report to the police, just in case there’s been a spate of these happening, b
Did they scramble all cars?
Did they scramble all cars?
It's no yolk, OP is going to have to shell out for repairs.
Because some people are thoughtless dicks.
There was a spell of throwing eggs at people in Liverpool. My brother walked out of the station and promptly got one in his face from two blokes in a car that then shot off. A watching taxi driver took him straight to the eye hospital but it has left permanent damage to one side.
Just be glad it is only your car.
Are we back in 1980?
Depending of what we could get hold of it was eggs, flour or wet toilet roll when we were kids.
Hell, people have thrown bricks off flyover on motorways at cars. There are some real dicks out there.
Hmm got high fencing on the pedestrian bridge near the Asda here, I think they did a shopping trolley once.
Never underestimate stupid.
One of my awkward memories is throwing a tiny stone at a car once while I was walking to school with friends. The car stopped, guy got out and asked "who's lobbing bricks??". Of course I didn't admit to it but as soon as he'd stopped the car I thought "why the fk did I do that??". Never did it again. Although I was tempted to throw a snowball at a passing bus this week.
in my head, i've wanted a paintball gun or egg launcher so I can let cars who do something stupid or dangerous how I feel about them
in reality i just internalise it and get annoyed
Bloody fuming
You'll get ova it...
It’s no yolk, OP is going to have to shell out for repairs.
That’s oeuf.
I was bombing down a hill on the bike late at night past some dodgy flats on a raised bank to my left. Top gear, full tuck, focussed on carrying speed through the lights ahead and I felt/heard something whoosh past my head. A split second later I heard 2 presumably beer bottles smash behind me.
I’m sure they’d have knocked me out if they’d hit me. I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.
I was @&£”%#+ livid.
Blame Marcus Rashford.
Just coming into town on a B-road that joins the A4 Bath road
Guessing Berkshire, Reading or Newbury way?
Because kids can be dicks kids.
These food-based jokes are really very tiresome.
That's an oeuf...
Well at least it wasn't a bin full of rocks off a bridge.
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/fra-mccaffery-west-belfast-rocks-19654029
here was a spell of throwing eggs at people in Liverpool
So when at uni there in early 90's we held a house party and unbeknownst to me at the time a lad (pissed) nicked some eggs and went and threw them at some cars on smithdown road. Never returned to the party. Found out later he'd picked the wrong car as it'd had screeched to a halt and some local hard case got a machete out of the boot and took a few chunks out of his head!!!
He lived to tell the tale but sobered us up the next day when we heard.
creakingdoor,omeletting* you off with that remark.
*No,I am not from Brum
Ooh, this happened to me a few years ago! Starting a thread, or reporting to the police ( 😆 ) or insurance (excess!? come on!) wasn't really in my thoughts... was driving home from a gig (a gig! remember them!) down in Portsmouth, when I saw a bunch of about 15 lads in black, wheelying about on Carreras. I actually thought it was a cool sight and smiled, until one of them threw something at my car. It hit the door pillar, so I accelerated at them and ploughed through with bikes and bodies flyi.. oops no, that bit didn't happen, I just tutted and drove home. Egg had damaged the paint slightly too.
It was Oct 31st night, so I put it down to Halloween highjinks.
OP, if you haven't already reported it to the insurance, do be aware they will probably record it as a non-fault 'vandalism'. Even if you choose not to claim, all insurers will be able to see the report and it is likely your premium will go up (and possibly you won't be able to do online searches for car insurance for the next 3-5 years), as will the car insurance for everyone who lives near that address. Unfortunately.
Yes Liverpool used to be horrendous for it. Kids are bored but also pricks who act with impunity because the Police haven't got the resources to be 'bobby on the beat' any more.
Funny Pedlar. I was working down Smithdown a few weeks ago and asked the owner of a house why he was wearing an ankle tag. A pissed up student threw eggs at his house and then told him to **** off when he complained. He beat the crap out of the student but said it was worth it.
...asked the owner of a house why he was wearing an ankle tag
Do you know, it would never occur to me to ask that, the likelihood of an amusing anecdote being slim.
Many years ago I was skateboarding to the pub when someone in a passing car threw a bottle of tomato ketchup at me. Thankfully a plastic one. No real harm done other than being covered in ketchup. I was running late as it was and didn't want it let it ruin my night, so carried on while trying to think of where I could clean it off. Shortly afterwards I came to the police station and figured they must have a toilet I could use. The look on the faces of the officers behind the desk when I walked in covered in something red and sticky was priceless.
Expand your queries in life you hear all sorts of things.
Some ****ers lobbed an egg at me whilst unloading my bike in East Manc for the Midweek Madness MTB races. Had been a bit nervous about parking there in the first place...
When the egg splattered all over the back seat I just loaded the bike back in and went home.
I used to commute on part of the Regents canal in Londoninium.
One day another cyclist warned me of yoofs further along the towpath that were throwing old fruit at cyclists,also adding “ Those Oranges bloody hurt” .This action was all coming from a street above the canal that had had a market that day .As I got closer to the kill zone, I could see heads peeping over the wall and that there were no steps off the towpath till a long way past. I couldn’t be arsed turning around so just ‘went for it’, lots of cheering, bike got hit (tomatoes) but I survived .I thought it was only proper to enter in to the spirit of things I, so picked up some of the old fruit of the path and pelted them back.😈🤣
So... they were victims of a drive-by fruiting?
🍍🔫🤣
I have had them thrown at me from cars.
Marin sed> Expand your queries in life you hear all sorts of things
Can't argue with that. A lesson in remaining interested in the world from a thread on egg-bombing, when there's already a concurrent "how do you scramble yours" topic on the front page of the forum.
The generalist. Be thankful it was only eggs
An English colleague living in Joburg sent me an online route card for a ride he had been considering.
On the route card was the recommendation that one of your party carries a firearm as it passes through some bad areas and you may be mugged.
Just come back to this, not disappointed by the food-based replies! I’ve decided I probably won’t go the insurance route, just because the voluntary excess will likely exceed the cost of the repair, and someone at work is apparently a very good sprayer, has his own business outside of work; he looks after the contracts for British Gas and AA/BSM vehicles now, but was a sprayer at work, and knows his stuff.
If it had been tiny chips, I could have probably got it done as a smart repair for free, but the damage is too extensive, it’s gone right through the paint. The main area is about 3cm across, but damage extends across roughly 8 or 9cm.
Thread reminds me of this lovely local community Facebook post:
Parked up in Meols on the seaf frot one night and went for a walk, got back and van covered in eggs, seems as if a local didnt like cars parked there at night on a well lit and 30 mph road, according to a fellow walker who passed by, he said his car had been done before so he parked down a side road.
Could be worse. I had a stone go through my windscreen at 70mph when some kids were throwing stones off a motorway bridge. Luckily no one was sat in the passenger seat of my car. Caught the little shits on camera though.
I have had them thrown at me from cars.
A few scrotes thought it'd be hillarious to borrow mummies car and drive round pelting the school kids. One tried to throw one from the back seats and just threw it into the windscreen of their own car by mistake! Did have to chortle a bit, you could see the kid driving was obviously working out how he was going to tell his folks and the amount of cleaning up he was gonna need to do
When I think of the stuff that we used to get up to when we were kids now makes me feel pretty ashamed. Hope it is an easy fix OP.
@didnthurt - (great name, btw), fortunately the fix is pretty easy, because it’s on the top of the passenger door, just above the handle, with a sharp swage-line not too far down the door, it’s easy to mask and repaint, without needing to worry about trying to blend into a larger panel, and even more fortunately it didn’t dent the panel. Going to have a word with the bloke at work tomorrow, see what he reckons price-wise.
You can see the part of the door in this photo, the top of the rear passenger door.
Metallic paints are a bugger to repair, if only because the paint is applied in a particular way, and doing a repair can mean the flakes of colour can lay at a different angle, causing a repaired area to appear a different colour compared to adjacent panels, like rubbing the nap of a piece of velvet in the opposite direction in one place can make it look lighter or darker.
Looks like it was a Faberge Egg from that damage.
If you do find them, they could be England's next fast bowler with an over arm like that