Submitted 16 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Just be careful, a lot of parking lots are video recorded. If he goes to the security desk for the store and they’re able to see you leave the note and walk back to your car, they’ll have someone to connect it to, and suddenly you are under investigation for potential damages, even if they’re not real.
Or if the car has already been dinged up somewhere, you could even land the blame for that, even if you didn’t do it.
Sorry, this is just my paranoia coming through.
If they have the video of you placing the note then they will have the video of you not hitting them.
Ideally. But you just confessed to it through your note anyways, and if there are existing damages, that could be enough to make a reasonable case against you. They have more evidence than you have not-evidence, if that makes sense.
If you didn’t get the video footage yourself, they have no obligation to reveal any part of it that would indicate your innocence. They’d show footage of you leaving the note, they’d show images of damage, and a judge or jury would side with them.
my man is vastly over estimating the work police will do
There’s minimal police work here, it’d be a civil suit. At most the police will verify claims and take a report of an incident, but there’s no investigating beyond what each party brings to the table themselves.
If they have video of you leaving the note, then they also have video of the truck being parked, sitting there without being hit, and the owner returning without any real incident.
And from experience, the cops would tell the owner of the truck to contact their insurance, and if pushed, the most they’d do is file a report. There wouldn’t be any investigation, especially without evidence of damage.
Paranoia? That’s just Flock cameras
Good point. Don’t park nearby at least. If you do wind up getting identified and blamed you could probably tell the truth and say he was being an asshat in traffic and you were trolling him, but you never know how the justice system will work.
That’s why I have front and rear dashcams.
They’d have to file a police report and report to their insurance before security will release/show any footage. This was a while ago from someone who worked at a red retail store.
Calling it a “car” as well I’m quite sure pisses him off. Beautiful.
I want to believe
Ingenious.
(Arguably)UnethicalLifeProTips
Anyone think this guy wears a cape?
Frank Costanza’s lawyer?
That would be too conspicuous.
It’s the little things…
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
If you want to have a tiny chance to see a perfectly good car get towed for no reason add “I have the part that fell out.”