Tough break, but I think this whole situation is pretty interesting. The title of this thread reminds me of those girls that wear those shirts that say "you're just jealous" as a preemptive response to people who harbor ill will towards them. To me it's not so much that people are jealous (or envious in the case of this thread), but more so that they just don't like you. Leaving windows down, doors unlocked, taking up two spaces, and even parking far away can be construed as an act of arrogance and people react to that.

Having said that, I personally don't think what happened was warranted at all.

 

I stand corrected. The family truckster conversion my parents had 20 years ago had a sliding door. I didn't remember seeing any with the double swing out doors but there they are, right on google.

Seems I learn something new everyday.

 

HA!


No **** mang! I used to one of the unruly mobsters. I've never run across the stackers though. Oooohh! That reminds me, I need to get a "Security provided by Smith and Wesson" sticker pronto.

 

Not sure if it's meant as a figurative part of an exemplative illustration, but just to clarify...I didn't take up 2 spaces. Heck, even that make me mad. Not to much to vandalize, but that's just plain arrogant right there.

 

Hate to say it but who is going to be envy/jealous of a RX8 it's a 20 something thousand dollar mazda? I like mine and it's a pretty decent car and all around good performer but it's no F360 Challenge Stradale or BMW M6, there are plenty of cars as good or better (and more expensive). I haven't even had a disgruntled middle manager type in a crappy civic give me a dirty look yet like I got in my BMW M3 all the time.

 

Man, if I ever saw someone stack something on my car...my first reaction would be to ask them what the **** they thought my car was? A chair? Maybe not that harsh but possibly an "Excuse me, is your car not good enough to have your sh*t stacked on it?" Secondly if an apology followed, and i saw something that said fragile or looked fragile, (SMASH) "whoops...Im SO SORRY that i accidentally dropped it trying to put it on your car!"

Okay i probably wouldn't do that or even get that mad (maybe a little). I'm more of a "Dont get mad, get even" kind of person. But everyone has to admit that would be funny to happen. Could you imagine the look on their
face?!

But yeah, maybe a taser would be fun.

 

Can't imagine how I'd handle it if I caught them in the act. Scary to think one could end up in jail but I'm sure the adrenaline rush would be hard to contain!! Perhaps the Judge would be sympathetic.

 

People can be envy/jealous of any car, it don't matter what kind of car it is. You can have a really fixed up civic and some guy walking down the street can key your ride. Plus the RX-8 is a really nice looking car, maybe not to all people. I'm sure someone out there is hateing because they might feel like they could never afford one. I already had my door kicked in at a gas station, someone even took a knife to my car. People do all kinds of things to sports cars. the funny thing is people in a M3 or anyexpensive car look me down. I guess it's all about what area you're in. I guess the best thing to say is, we have all types of dumbass people out there.

 

People who have no idea what the car is just assume it's pretty damn expensive judging by the looks.

 

i'm not so sure. especially after they notice the mazda emblems. people will definetly say it looks nice and sporty, but mazda logo lets people know its not an incredibly expensive car.

 

That's what you would expect as a Mazda owner, but people are stupid and in general they don't seem to notice the emblems...they always ask if it's something else.

 

i was at ucla last night, parked my evo at the meters at 3 am....came back out at 7 am and saw a load of egg over the car.

first of all my car is 1 month old, and it just got washed. most of the egg yolks went on my windshield, and if some of u know, the vent on stock evo's engine lid...that vent was a major PITA to clean i tell u, esp. for 3 hours under very hot socal sun today....

yea i was extremely angry to say the least. i guess i will never take my evo to school anymore. ******* haters should all die.

 

The 8 hasn't had enough production years for "people" to know what it is offhand. It looks sporty & that's all stupid people need to see. If everyone knew the cost of an 8, the car would not draw so many head turns, double takes, and general comments. When was the last time you saw someone double take a mustang? Add to that the amount of times (4 in the 2 months I've had my8) you hear "what did that set you back? 35-40k?" and you can see that "people" don't have a f8ckin clue.

Overall, I gotta agree w/ the statement(s) that some MF's out there just suck, and deserve to be taser bait.

 

omg! i dont think ive ever seen this, but that is absolutely ridiculous! your punishment sounds just.

 

That's how it goes. Gawd forbid a child gets disciplined in this ever so sophisticated world we live in.

 

I like this OP's punishment better:

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...treme+response

 

OMG. That's one of those things you WISH you had the nerve to do, but likely couldn't go through with it if I did see that happen, I at least would do what the next post mentioned, and take the other bag, put it on the top of her hood, then SLIDE it all the way across her hood, then hand it back to her.

this is more of less what I refurring to.

Ironically enough, a fully loaded, brand new RX-8 with every possiable option and package, after taxes would be right smack dab in the middle of the $35-40K range

Whoa, be happy you found out about that and didn't let it sit in the sun for days while that egg BAKED into yur paint. Seen that happen a time or 2. Sometimes a clay bar is the only way to pull that crap off...and THAT'S assuming it hasn't been on there for numerous sunny days. And I must say, EVO's are nice and all, but i'd imagine that you'd be subject to A LOT of haters. People that don't like Mits, AWD, musclecar gearheads, and then the added bonus of people who just hate nice cars. Not to say yur any worse off then us though!

EXACTLY! Take for instance all of the rice out there that thinks that takin off then emblems makes their car either go up in value, or makes it unidentifiable. Sadly, I don't need a big H or "civic" emblem to really know the difference!

In less then a month that i've owned the car, i've had someone come up and ask if this was the new viper (?) and yet another at a pump that said he's swore up and down on his life that his friends cousin has one of those with a V10. I just finished pumpin gas and left. That conversation had gotten too stupid me, especially after I was nice enough to take the time to explain the general concept of how a rotary works.

 

thats awesome. i dont think i'd have the marbles to pull that off, but i would be furious.

side note: the night i bought my '78 camaro i drove over to my friend's place to show it off. when i pulled up, he and his fat brother came out to check it out. first thing his brother did was leap onto the long hood and roll around on it, as i listened to the popping sounds of it 'denting' in and out. Granted, the car pretty much looked like crap, but i was still mad.

 

^^ lol. Shinka MSRP comes to 36k for my zipcode. I bought the base model, b/c I can't stand the spoiler/sunroof, etc. and the cost of those pckgs was not worth it IMO. Quit making me consider alternate POV's!!

 

There is no such thing as a hate or envy crime. They are all JUST crimes!!!

 

I have 10 DEEP scratches on my drivers side roof about 8" in length from someone sliding a box full of crap onto my car and then sliding it off after putting the rest of their crap into their shitty Saturn.

Unfortunately I was all the way accross the parking lot coming out of the Costco when I saw them doing this. Fortunately I did get their license plate #as they were pulling away. I will have my revenge one day when I see that car again.

4 slashed tires, key marks from front to rear bumper on both sides, and broken head / tail lamps sounds about right to me...

My good friend has something he always says which rings really true in these circumstances... "If they don't pay they will never change"

It's very true... These people must be forced to pay at some point in such a horrible way that they will question everything they ever do on the road from that day forward. You must commit such an hainous act upon their vehicle that they don't think it's random vandolism and are forced to recall what they may have done to **** someone off...

One day at school my buddy was waiting for a parking spot, some kid comes and snakes the spot, he says WTF... Kid replies, man I'm so late for class and runs off...

Well guess what, we were late for class too. I bet that kid was late getting home after my buddy slashed all 4 tires, and dumped a 20oz coke down his gas tank... "Moral of this story: You are not more important than anyone else" I bet that kid never steals another parking spot in his entire life.