Miata Mailing List: August 1993, Message #59
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   From: sgrossma@lemans.stortek.com (Steve Grossman)
Subject: RE: Parking lot bashing (was RE: Ants and panels
   Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 17:26:03 -0400



> Interestingly, one of the cops who showed up, also a Miata owner, said he'd
> never seen one in an accident on the road, but has seen several that had been
> run into in parking lots; he reckons they are so low people just don't see
> them. So, watch out in parking lots, folks, else they'll mash your panels too !

I thought that it was more of a jealousy thing, and an unattended car in a
parking lot is an easy target.  When mine was backed into ( with greater than
$1200 in damages), the alarm went off, and the guy driving the van drove away,
claiming he didn't know he hit anything.  Between the loud bump when his van
hit my car and the corresponding 120 db yelp from the alarm, I can hardly
imagine that he didn't know he hit it.  Fortunately, it was in the parking lot
of the motor vehicle department, and a state trooper on his lunch break SAW the
whole thing, and caught and informed the van driver that he was leaving the
scene of an accident.

Steve