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Our car is the white Buick Encore
I figured I'd vent here in the forums and share my experience and maybe obtain some wisdom help and insight from the masses here.
Two days ago on Saturday afternoon my wife and I stopped at Taco Bell and we parked as far over close to the curb away from the painted lines about 16 in from my passenger side painted line. .
Because I'm so paranoid about getting door dings and dents from inconsiderate people I always Park near a curb and corner instead of in the middle of the parking lot no matter where we go one side's always protected by nobody being able to park by my vehicles. .
And as luck would have it some young dumb girl parked right on the line next to us with 6 ft between her driver's door and the next car over then she proceeded to go open the rear door and hit our car with it.. my wife and I saw her open her door and I took a couple of pictures and by the time I got outside she was rocketing away. .
I called the police they came took the report her license number from my picture and they caught up to her at her house and got all her information
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Today after talking to an insurance agent up the road closer to me with State Farm the lady was really helpful and found the full report online and gave me the last name the person that owns the vehicle and told me they had the same State Farm Insurance so that it should be an easy task but I had to call my agent 30 miles away and go over the details .......after dealing with them (my Agent )and finally getting them to try to help me they aren't as good as the closest office they're kind of a holes. .
I got the call from the offenders agent and gave them the pictures of how she was parking on the line right next to us and told her we witnessed her open the door and hit our car and one of the customer sitting next to us made mention as it was a happening can you believe that girl parking that close so I immediately took pictures and ran out but it was too late..
This person denies that she hit our car with her door
And her agent said there's nothing I can do accept small claims court
My insurance agent said basically the same thing and that I was s*** out of luck I had to either pay my deductible and fix it myself or live with it..
This example is what I have been trying to avoid in my paranoia where I park but now I see that you have to be an extremely big prick and act as fast as you can or part completely away from all other customers no matter where you park or double Park like some people do which I wouldn't do because I wouldn't want my car keyed
I don't know if any of you have any better recommendations for me to resolve my issue but I figured it would be a lesson for everyone reading it that it becomes that he said she said unless you have something on video which I'm trying to obtain a video from Taco Bell if it exists but it may not be likely still waiting for a call back from management. .
I take care of all of them things in my life especially the vehicles that are so expensive in this world and this kind of thing turns me into the Raging Hulk and almost pushes me to become a very dangerous individual to deal with I just absolutely can't stand stupid people with no regard for other people's property or lives