Wow, my Yaris got in an accident. You won't believe the situation

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Originally Posted by DebbyM46227

What was his excuse for backing up?

Wait till you hear this one. I always park way out in parking lots to avoid door dings. A couple months ago I parked in the farthest out spot behind a guy maybe early 60's on a cell phone in a Cadillac, gabbing away. I had a funny feeling about pulling in behind him but did anyway. His car was facing out of the parking space so if he was leaving, he would pull straight out. The front end of my car faced his trunk.

I get out of my car and I'm halfway across the parking lot when I hear BAM!!! I knew before I turned around, it was my car. He backed into my car when there was no reason for him to be backing up.

He started to pull away but I ran over and stood in front of his car and every other word out of my mouth was "you stupid MF". He was either going to run me over or turn off his car. I screamed at him to turn his MF piece of crap car off.

Then I went over to the driver's door and every other word out of my mouth was you stupid MF - WTF are you doing? Can't you f'ing drive??? He got out and went around to the back and I was afraid to look but there wasn't a thing wrong with the front of my Yaris and he hit it hard! I had some bug splatter on the front bumper and got a towel out to wipe it off to make sure the bug splatter really wasn't paint.

Normally I'm a very easy-going person, but something came over me and I shoved him up against his car and he said "woman don't touch me again or I'm calling the police" and I said you go right ahead and I will get you for trying to leave the scene, all the while calling him a stupid MF.....I told him my car was new and a stupid asshole like him that can't even look behind before backing up shouldn't be driving (my car is a year old now but still new to me and smells new).

I proceeded to call him MF probably another 100 times before I got in my car. He took off but I decided to harass him more so I followed him. He was weaving in/out of lanes in lots of traffic around the shopping mall but I managed to get behind him - he tried to swerve to another lane to lose me but I wanted to make sure I got his license plate in case I needed it later. Finally he pulled over into a muffler shop parking lot thinking we're going to duke it out or something but I kept on driving :) I bet he won't forget me for awhile!

Anyway, I'm very protective of my Yaris and no one is going to hurt it and get away with it!

Yikes!

Well, I'm going to offer you some perspective from an outside reader, based on what you wrote:

So, you were walking to the store, with your back to your car, heard a loud noise, "knew before [you] turned around, it was [your] car" and turned around to see him pulling out of the parking spot he was in?

Then ran in front his car, verbally berated him, forced him out of his car to look at the damage (or lack there of) to your car, committed battery on him, and continued to verbally berate him?

Which was followed up by threats of filing a police report in which there's no evidence that a crime occurred (you didn't see it happen and didn't see any damage), continued to harass him by following him around in your car.

So, (I'm not a lawyer, but) we have:

• Assault
• Battery
• Harassment
• Reckless driving
• Stalking

And all of this, when there was absolutely no damage to your car whatsoever.

Granted, I don't know every detail of what happened, and maybe you didn't write it down, but it sounds like you were really in the wrong here. There was obviously a better way to handle this situation, as A-Dingo-Ate-My-Baby mentioned. You know, calm, cool, collected?

Personally, I know that if I was in that man's situation, as soon as I was shoved up against my own car, the gloves would have been off. Hell, I'm surprised that he showed as much restraint as he did. Luckily he was a lot cooler than you were.