A gang of teenage scrotes were up to no good in the Morrisons car park in Tynemouth last night. Came out from shopping only to find about 3 people chasing off the scrotes. Apparently they'd just launched 3 shopping trolleys at a car, and yes it was mine - the bastards. Luckily for me the wheels of the trolley must have been typical shopping trolley steering and they had slowed down to a crawl by the time my car was hit. I have a tiny 40mm scratch, barely detectable for depth with a fingernail - it hasn't gone beyond the gloss.
As it was pitch black, at the time I couldn't be sure there wasn't a dent (there wasn't), so the bobbies were called for an appointment today. They came by at a most opportune moment. They decided the damage was so small they don't want to take things further (Morrisons has clear CCTV footage identifying them as they were in the store right before the incident) - what ever happened to intent to cause criminal damage?
As it turns out, my neighbour was parked across our drive. They do this all the time to either me or next-door-but-one, and we ask them not to every few weeks, and they end up coming back after a week. I got the bobbies to have a word, after i'd showed the car clearly across my drive. Hopefully they won't be doing that again. They pretended not to be in when the bobby knocked, but luckily she persisted, eventually shouting through the letterbox that she knew they were there. The battered old A4 was moved sharpish. Justice! (kind of).
