Police are looking for a person who slashed the tyres and roof of car parked in Ascot
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Couple's hefty bill after car vandalism
By Becky BarnesMarch 13, 2013
A Warfield couple were forced to claim more than £3,000 on their insurance policy after a revenge-seeking vandal slashed the soft -top roof and tyres on their car.
The husband, who did not wish to be named, found a note saying ‘Thanks for cutting me up ****’ followed by three kisses on the vandalised red Mini outside Ascot station, in Station Hill.
His wife said: “He drove to the station at 7.30am in the morning, but wasn’t in a hurry and doesn’t remember cutting anybody up.
“All my husband can think of is somebody else had cut somebody up, so they could have easily mistaken the car.”
When her husband returned from work at 10pm on Thursday, February 4, it was too dark to see the damage, but next day mechanics estimated the cost of repairs to the tyres and roof as costing £3,000.
The 39-year-old woman said: “There were two eight-inch slashes in the soft roof and 19 perfectly-spaced puncture marks in one tyre.
“There were three or four in the other rear tyre and marks on the front tyres.
“It has really freaked me out because it was quite obviously premeditated by somebody carrying a sharp blade. Staff at the garage said the tyres were stabbed with a round instrument like a screwdriver.”
The couple were left without a car for a week while the Mini was fixed and had to pay a £310 excess to get a new roof.
Anyone with information can call police on 101.
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A was talking to a guy the other day who had his car damaged by another car in the car park at Ascot station. The police found this incident on CCTV but won't give the man who had his car hit the details he needs to make a claim on the dishonest drivers insurance. What is the point of the CCTV?
13/03/2013 at 17:47 Offensive or Inappropriate?
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People get frustrated with other people's driving, I know. I do, frequently. But there is no excuse for taking the law into your own hands, or breaking it (eg dangerous driving) to get your own back. You might have been in the wrong in the first place, or getting your own back at the wrong person, despite the poor driving you saw. I reported an incident the other day where someone executed a *highly* dangerous overtaking move the wrong way around a blind roundabout, then got out and shouted abuse at a driver, all with his children in the car, all because the driver in front had dabbed her brakes (or missed a gear change) when he wasn't expecting it. It isn't right, and people should be reprimanded for it.
The sooner we get CCTV in cars that can be used for prosecution (and insurance reduction) like it is in parts of America, and five or ten year resits of driving tests, the better. It might have even been possible to use it to record the mini's attacker if the car sensed it was being attacked.
13/03/2013 at 10:31 Offensive or Inappropriate?
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