A camera placed on the vehicle's dashboard shows a man approach the Aston Martin V8 Vantage on Morning Lane, Hackney at about 10:30 BST on 19 June.
It shows the man manoeuvring a pram before appearing to take keys from his pocket and scrape them down the passenger side of the vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33967375
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I think it is more likely to happen in areas where there is a very wide gap between rich and poor.
London has many such areas. Current housing market has pushed out middle class out of London. Only extremely wealthy people or those on benefits can afford to live in London now.
It often happens in very deprived areas too (where everyone is poor).
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The chap doing the keying looks quite respectable, and looks to have a quite expensive baby buggy (not that I would know). He will be regretting it; with luck the publicity may stop a few others. But that's why I don't park a brand-new car on the streets of London.
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Maybe it was parked somewhere really stupid?
Don't condone it but watched with some satisfaction a harassed looking mum force her pram between a 15-reg Audi A7 and a lamp post after the owner dumped it on the pavement with no thought for pedestrians.
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>> Maybe it was parked somewhere really stupid?
Whatever the back story, if there is one, malicious damage is always a toeraggy thing to inflict on anyone. You may think the owner 'deserves' it, but what about the poor dumb machine that has to suffer the cruelty?
Beastly crap thing to do. Love the enraged snarl on the perp's mug though.
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Man arrested after £100k Aston Martin keyed in Hackney
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33980186
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I wonder if the police would be as interested if my £9,000 Yaris had sustained £500 vandalism damage.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Tue 18 Aug 15 at 19:02
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If you supplied them with a video of the offence I don't see why not.
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But the BBC probably wouldn't be.
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>> I wonder if the police would be as interested if my £9,000 Yaris had sustained
>> £500 vandalism damage.
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Depends on what side of the street you were parked, odd or even. Now if your car was in Magaluf that would be different.
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Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 19 Aug 15 at 12:45
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I can't see him actually damaging the car in the video-is everyone(including the police)assuming he did it?-or am I missing a bit?
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Turn the volume up and play it again.
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'Silly' Hackney father admits damaging £100k car outside Tesco
Gary Brissett facing jail after pleading guilty to causing £8,000 damage to Oliver Hall's supercar while being filmed by dashcam
tinyurl.com/pdv2f3o (Telegraph)
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Thanks for the link.
Nice chap. NOT. The politics of envy, it seems. One cannot condone deliberate damage like that, especially as the Aston owner was legitimately parked, it seems.
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>> The politics of envy, it seems. One cannot condone deliberate damage like that, especially as the Aston owner was legitimately parked, it seems.
Yes, it's the act of a very nasty moronic toerag. Certainly asking for a short sharp shock (I don't suppose he will be inside for long). It may not have any beneficial effect though and may have a negative one. Once a toerag, always a toerag.
I don't see the legality or otherwise of its parking making any difference though, except to a parking wonk. It wasn't in anyone's way was it?
Surely a car being parked illegally isn't an excuse for vandalizing it.
You could buy a couple of nice sound motors for the 8 grand (Hell's bells!!) it costs to paint an Aston Martin properly. Nice blow-over with grey and red primer, Bob's your uncle. Of course I'm not flash...
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>> Surely a car being parked illegally isn't an excuse for vandalizing it.
I think someone here was suggesting a few days ago that it might be an excuse. I was a bit shocked... can't remember who it was or what they said exactly. Can't be bothered to look it up. Perhaps it didn't happen after all (but I think it did).
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I think the reference was to squeezing a pram through a constricted space because someone had parked on the pavement. That's not malicious damage, it's a lawful way of exercising a right of way, like cutting barbed wire across a public footpath.
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>> That's not malicious damage, it's a lawful way of exercising a right of way
I'd call it lawful malicious damage.
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>> I'd call it lawful malicious damage.
Yes. It's harsh punishment for a bit of stupidity. A proper person would go round it by the road.
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Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows for reasonable excuse or Lawful Authority. Unlike snipping barbed wire on a right of way this is pure spite or "punishment" man's a tit and deserves all he gets.
Last edited by: Webmaster on Tue 6 Oct 15 at 08:57
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Man filmed keying £100k Aston Martin - movilogo
