Maybe the kid will traumatized....... To never sit on anyone's car ever again!! I think you basically taught him a lesson his dad should have been teaching him in the first place. I don't think you handled it inappropriately at all. What the hell gives a person the right to sit on anyone's car?? Think of it this way,...what if your car alarm was sensitive enough to go off from someone making contact with it??

 

While I appreciate the bike story and I'm glad that it turned out well, personally, I would have informed them that they need to contact the police as well. Leaving a note isn't sufficient.
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d10/vc20002.htm

 

I get that not all people are car people. And not all people know enough to respect others property just because its not theirs. But you don't have to be a car person to know some people DO care a lot about their cars, nor do you need to be a car person to recognize the S is not a 10 year never been waxed in its life base Civic that the owner won't care if you put your kid on it (not that that would have been right either).

I get the sense that a calm, reasoned attempt at a life lesson would not have registered with this guy. After all, he got this far in life without learning to respect other people, or their property.

Its unfortunate, but I think the only way this guy can learn anything is if its accomanied by something very unpleasant (he can't learn, but he can be conditioned). Hopefully the experience was sufficiently unpleasant that he won't want to relive it next time.

 

They go hand in hand.


The more you know...

 

Gotta love the Internet. We can now determine the exact intelligence level of anyone and determine exactly how that person should be treated based on a 7 sentence description of a scenario presented in a forum.

smh

So basically, the OP asked how others react when random strangers sit on their cars. Okay.... no one sits on my cars -- ever. It just doesn't happen. BUT if it did happen I would handle it the way I said above which is I would tell them it is disrespectful, that I wouldn't sit on their car, and to please get off mine.

 

This. That would have pissed me off to no end.

 

you did the right thing. kids need to learn RESPECT.

darcy

 

I personally would loose my mind! my car has fg parts so it wouldn't take to kindly to someone sitting on it. a kid I might handle differently. but an adult, it would be a bad day for them. I've learned that people don't give a sh*t about others property and don't think anything about it. its the world we live in. go figure.

 

My car has Hella supertone horns. I would have done the same as the OP.

 

If it was the kid by himself I would have just told the kid to get off and let him know that it is not good what he is doing. With the father right beside you did good. The problem here is that the father should have already know to not touch someone's else property. And at his age he most likely won't learn. Someone else failed to give him manners when he was young and now he is going to fail to give them to his kid by having no respect to other's propriety

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