EspritMiltonKeynes Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) Title says it all really... happened in this Sainsbury's car park earlier today between 1050am and 1140am in Malton, North Yorkshire... quite a nice town, quite a nice area tbh... just shows I guess. I'm guessing there'll be no point in claiming off the insurance, especially with the excess and price hike for next year? Edited August 12, 2011 by EspritMiltonKeynes Quote EspritMiltonKeynes - ironically now lives in Edinburgh London (SE4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obione Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 That's a shocker - you must be well and truly gutted. Hope it's not too expensive Quote This book is guaranteed to NOT change your life…but it does mention a Lotus Esprit...To enjoy this masterpiece, download Martin now. Simples!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GavinT Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 What the ****. That just sucks beyond all comprehension. A another callous act by the mindless moronic individuals that walk amongst us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanQ Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) Why? I just don't understand why some one would want to spoil any car especially one as rare as any of ours. Why not just admire the car? This sort of vandalism is beyond my understanding. Edited August 12, 2011 by IanQ Quote Though this be madness yet there is method in it ( Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich H Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Same scum that's been looting and sees no problem with it. Quote Lotus Esprit S4 - Work in progress Porsche 924 Turbo - Parts chaser Smart Roadster Coupe - Hers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EspritMiltonKeynes Posted August 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Same scum that's been looting and sees no problem with it. It could be something to do with that... I'd understand if I'd parked it on a council estate at school-chucking out time, but in Malton late morning in a Sainsbury's car park??? It's kind of... well, bizarre. Perhaps the riots have given all would-be vandals around the country a new sense of confidence? Quote EspritMiltonKeynes - ironically now lives in Edinburgh London (SE4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotect Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Hi James what a choker. I had similar 3 times in the same car park here in Manchester, it tuned out to to be numbskulls squeezing passed with trolleys. It must take them a lot of time to walk round the parked cars. Best of luck with the repair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket63 Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Absolutely shocking. Very poor form. Sorry to hear that James Quote Caught between a rock and a hard place in a catch 22 situation, So its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. Your damned if you do, but your damned if you don't so shut your cock!!!!!!!!!!! Lotus Espirt Turbo S3 Lotus Esprit S4 Lotus Elise S2 Sport 130 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andydclements Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Hopefully one of the chips-away type firms will be able to repair that without having to have the whole panel done again. Still gutting and bl***y annoying I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slewthy Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 Thats awful. But Andy is right - a good chip firm will have that sorted to virtual invisibility. Doesn't make you feel any warmer to your fellow man (or woman) though. Loretta. Quote "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich H Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) Think I might turn on my stupid 'please step a-way from the ve-hic-ul' alarm option... Annoying as f**k but makes dullards like this jump... 'Step away or the a-larm will sound' Edited August 12, 2011 by Rich H Quote Lotus Esprit S4 - Work in progress Porsche 924 Turbo - Parts chaser Smart Roadster Coupe - Hers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slewthy Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 What about 'step away from the vehicle - you are being filmed' Quote "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loose Cannon Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 That's just awful. A more unlikely place I couldn't imagine, Malton.....mind you an aquantance had his Testarossa bathed in brake fluid in the similarly countrified village of Corbridge so who knows. Quote In the garage no-one can hear you scream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.oogieboogie Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 bastards Quote It's Oogies turn to boogie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Grey Posted August 12, 2011 Report Share Posted August 12, 2011 This happened to a friend here in Colorado. I can't find the original article Council candidate charged with felony By Trevor Hughes Staff Writer A candidate for Louisville (Colorado) City Council has been charged with a felony after she allegedly vandalized a $40,000 car parked in a handicapped space. According to police and witnesses, Ward 2 candidate Barbara Escajeda "keyed" a dark green Lotus parked in a handicapped space at the Coal Creek Golf Course July 8. In a voluntary statement made to police the next day, Escajeda said she "made a big mistake." "I believe that as human beings we are not perfect," Escajeda said in the handwritten statement. "I have never caused damage to anything before. I made a mistake. God knows I am telling the truth." According to witnesses, she scratched the passenger side of the 1994 Lotus S4 with a key, stepped back and looked around, then did it again. She then went to play golf, according to police reports. Damage to the Lotus is estimated at $5,000 - $10,000. The owner of the car, who had just undergone reconstructive knee surgery, had properly displayed a handicapped placard, police said. According to reports, Escajeda initially denied the charges when interviewed by police, but offered to pay for the damage to the car. Police say she eventually confessed, and apologized to the car's owner. Escajeda owns a company that helps abused women start their own businesses. In an interview Sept. 4, Escajeda reiterated that she made a "mistake" in damaging the car. "I made a mistake. What I did was wrong. This had nothing to do with the owner of the car. I've offered to pay for all the damages. It's a situation that you can find yourself in and all you can say is 'I made a mistake and it won't happen again.' It's certainly a mistake that could cost me the election. The most important thing is to be honest and up-front." Escajeda blamed "47 years of pent-up frustration" for her actions. She said suffering she's seen as a nurse who's traveled the world caused tension within her. "In Thailand... there was a man that had both of his legs chopped off. He was dragging himself along the street by his elbows. I couldn't help that man," Escajeda said. "Why did I do it? I don't know." In the first week of August, according to police reports, Escajeda called the investigating officer and told him the charges "will not stick." She then called him back Aug. 11 and invited him to dinner. That officer has since moved on to the Longmont (Colorado) Police Department. Police Chief Bruce Goodman, who was familiar with the case, said Escajeda's dinner invitation was unusual, but not illegal. "It's not serious at all," Goodman said of the invitation. "I would not take it as bribery." Escajeda said the chief is a close friend. Quote Travis Vulcan Grey 89SE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramjet Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Carpark cameras? Quote All we know is that when they stop making this, we will be properly, properly sad.Jeremy Clarkson on the Esprit. Opinions are like armpits. Everyone has them, some just stink more than others. For forum issues, please contact one of us Moderators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger 912 Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 I find this action by idiots totally unacceptable. Where have we gone wrong. As children growing up in Enfield in the 1940's and 50's we were taught to respect other people, respect other peoples property, respect law and order and also respect ourselves. Is it parenting, media (especially tv) or what. Would love to find out where we went wrong and fix it. How about bringing back conscription? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Basically echo everything said above. I was washing my Elise one day a few years back and three kids walked through the garage block. After the admiring glances, one of them turns around and says "what if i was to damage it?" I don't get why peoples attitude is to automatically destroy? You don't go to a car show and think about damaging every single car on display. I will very rarely park my Elise in a supermaket (or public for that matter) car park simply to avoid this sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Blanchard Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Really sorry to hear this. I'd be spitting blood. Quote Mark www.lotusespritturbo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz_Bennetts Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Horrible and right after a respray - ramjet has a point though, there'll be cameras in the Sainsbury's? Quote "All we know is that when they stop making this, we will be properly, properly sad."~ Jeremy Clarkson (about the Lotus Esprit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemot Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 The UK seems to be producing a crop of totally hopeless feral oiks. The solution is to change things so that we don't produce any more....re-introduce the educational discipline that served the country all through the period of Empire, and stop this rubbish whereby children and youths are beyond restraint. Why on earth should society be in fear and trembling of a bunch of idiots? Makes no sense to me. My upbringing was along the same lines as Roger912....if it wasn't yours, you didn't touch it...and misbehaviour was punished by effective sanctions; not a pat on the head and a sweetie....and society worked. Problem is, granted that it is possible to change things to prevent the current youth mindset taking root, what do we do to STOP this sort of casual vandalism? The justice system as presently constituted is worthless. None of this rant helps Our Man as was in Milton Keynes, though....thankfully the paint doesn't appear to be metallic; ought to be possible to get an invisible fix. Good luck...and stay away from shopping in it! Quote Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmxa Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 I had a similar experience a few years back. Parked well away from everyone (not a car for 20 spaces in every direction) came back to find some miscreant pulled up next to me and smacked his door into the Esprit about 10 times and drove away. Damage was so bad you could see the fiberglass in the door. Reminds me this from Pulp Fiction - Quote Paddle Faster, I hear Banjos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneshot Posted August 14, 2011 Report Share Posted August 14, 2011 I suspect this may not have been malicious but done by someone pushing a trolley alongside the car. It amazes me when I go to Tesco how many people reverse into a parking space, thus making the boot away from the "road" meaning they have to push the trolley between the cars to get to the back. I have seen these type of marks done by trolleys, handbags, zips on coats and even the rivets on jeans and people squeeze between cars. Quote Dave - 2000 Sport 350 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfitz981 Posted August 14, 2011 Report Share Posted August 14, 2011 That sucks...sorry to hear...what a jerkoff to do such a thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted August 15, 2011 Report Share Posted August 15, 2011 That does suck, Sorry guy. Even at car shows the kids are getting bad, running around and touching everything. but even in general everyday use i can find hand, finger and face prints on my car and windows. I was told never to touch other peoples cars and i stick to it. Why is it not a rule of life? I suspect this may not have been malicious but done by someone pushing a trolley alongside the car. No offence but your trolleys are some of the most retarded items i have ever come across. Our trolleys only have swivel wheels on the front so they track in a straight line and dont crab walk all over. It was most disconcerting pushing your trolleys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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