I had that happen to me, to an old Subaru station wagon I had back when I was newly married and broke as a church mouse. Tore it all the way down the side, couldn't even open the doors. To make it worse, the b@stard stopped and left a fake note under my windshield wiper. I knocked on doors in the neighborhood and found a dozen neighbors who saw the whole thing and they all said "he left you a note." Nobody got his license number. Only thing they could tell me was "it was a red pickup truck." I didn't have any collision insurance so I basically lost my car.
The only solace I have ever had from that incident was that my wife saw a guy do something similar to a car in a parking lot, and drive off. She got his license plate number, wrote a note and put it under the windshield wiper of the car that got hit. She was subpoenaed to court. The driver who hit-n-ran showed up to court with a cashiers check for the damages, and got a year's suspended/probation, plus fine. So if you want to "get even," I guess the best thing to do is pay it forward to someone else. (A couple years later, a good Samaritan gave us the license plate number of a jerk who hit-n-ran on our car, and we collected on that. The car was owned by a company and the company owner said he didn't know who was driving it - yeah right.)
Jim
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> I came back from taking my Sweetie out for Mother's Day in her '82 240D to find some asshole side swiped my '84 300CD from stem to stern breaking the mirror and scraping the whole side of the car before leaving.....
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> Son of a bitch .
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> -Nate
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