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So far in 4 days, I’ve had 3 incidents involving my car

First, a few days ago, I’m driving along minding my own business, I come to a tight road, and some muppet in the opposite direction decides to floor it, hits my wing mirror, knocking it into my car and cracking the wing mirror glass (thankfully nothing happened to the plastic thing keeping the glass in place or the car door!)
I stopped immediately but by the time I turned around, he was long gone. I just hope his car was damaged as well. It’s no biggie though, the glass works fine, and a replacement is pretty cheap.

Today morning, I was out for a meal quite, far away, around 12am, parked my car in a side road. Have my meal, come out (around 1am) and find the back small window smashed, rear window rolled down and someone has had a proper go at finding something worth taking. Luckily, I left nothing too important in there so nothing was missing and double locking the doors mean you can’t open it without the key.
Called the police, who decided there was no point coming around since they hadn’t left any blood or anything at the scene. Got home, stuck a bin bag over the broken window and went to bed, but didn’t get much sleep. Woke up at 8am, called insurance, who sent someone over around 10:30am and replaced the window (in 10 mins!). Course, it cost me a bit, had to pay the £50 excess (booooo).
Got a call back from the cops who were interested in knowing if there was any chance the would-be-thief left prints behind. Chances are he probably did, the cops seemed happy with that and said they’d send someone around to check for prints (yay ). Hope the thief gets owned.

This morning, while getting the car ready for the repair man, I notice the rubber thing at the bottom of the car is half off Wasn’t much I could do expect stick it back the best I could, prolly needs to be taken to a garage and let them do it properly.

Sigh, never had this much trouble with my car before. No one’s ever touched my car, I remember leaving my window open for 3 days by mistake (!) and nothing was touched. Despite the occasional problems around here, this area seems pretty safe.