Total Disrespect!!!

[45SS]

After parking in Boonies, aka BFE, at the WalMart parking lot, as most of you probably do, (door ding / damage prevention technique) I return to my sled after shopping to discover my ride, still parked in it's lonly spot by itself, as I left it, but now there is a shopping cart "snuggled up" to my passenger door, one(1) inch away. Then.............Wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I discovered the "dent" and "paint gouges" on my passenger quarter. My ride is a 2012 45th Anniversary SS (previously flawless condition). Why the disprespect? Still trying to make sence of it. Total Disrespect!!!!!!!! Offering a $1,000,000,000 reward for who is responsible! Not really! Help me cope!

[clg_98ta]

Very sorry to hear that this happen, despite your best interests.

For some reason, these cars are a magnet for mindless soccer moms, social misfits and just general idiots to take out their bottled up aggression upon. If you're car was covered in dirt and you wedged in between a minivan and a SUV, you would not be a target... you'd only have carelessness to worry about. Keeping your car nice and parking away from others shows you care - which seems to motivate some people to f*** with you.

[midnighter]

Walmart parking lots and Camaros don't mix.

[RollaMo]

No matter what you do to prevent it, parking your car in a Wal Mart parking lot is a recipe for disaster.

99.9% of the people parking there don't give a crap about their own car, let alone one belonging to somebody else.
Just take a good look around next time your there. How many nice cars do you see?
How many shopping carts scattered about the lot?

Sometime parking away from everyone helps, but make sure your not "downhill" from the everyone. Cause they'll just let the cart go, and it will roll all the way across the lot to your car.

[strych9]

Was it windy that day? Maybe one of the mindless shoppers left a cart loose and the wind took it over to your car.

I see them all the time. My son and I always corral them up on the way into the store. Lazy f**kin' idiots.

[Scalded Dog]

Thank your lucky stars that you were not in a parking lot back when I was an evil teenager. My friends and I had all kinds of fun times by going out to a parking lot, and setting a shopping cart in front of my car... then I'd accelerate, and get that thing up to 20, 30, even 40 MPH, depending on the size of the parking lot. Hit the brakes, and watch a 40 MPH shopping hit a curb or a wall. Occasionally, it would tumble before self- destructing, but often, it simply disintigrated upon impact. Hey, we were teens, in a town where drinking was about all there was to do... never hit a car, but came damn close a few times. Yes, I've had 25 years to seek atonement for my sins.

[stray bullitt]

Sorry to hear stories like that. It's enough to piss off a priest. Some jealous low life must have taken the trouble to shove the cart from a distance into your car by the sound of it. I have often tried to fathom out what makes a vandal tick, but I fail every time.
When I was at school in the 60s/70s we were taught to be aspirational, and respectful to others. Therefore if we saw a nice motor in a car park, we'd think, one day I'll work hard enough to buy one of those.
Sadly society has broken down, even in polite little old England.

[jntjohnson]

That is horrible! Hasn't happened to my Camaro, but they did that to my truck....no one around it for a very good distance, came back to find a cart against the driver side door........dents and paint missing, and yes, this was in a walmart parking lot.

[5150 Maro]

My 45th refuses to enter the parking lot at Wally World.........I have to take the 10 yr old Silverado P/U truck!

[MEDISIN]

If some great misfortune should befall you and you find it necessary to enter a Wal-Mart parking lot, your best bet is to park uphill as far from everything as possible. Preferably next to a curb or other natural barrier. Some people are just absent minded and don't secure carts properly after use. The wind, the slope of the hill, another cart bumping into it can jar it lose and send it on a path to destruction.

I sometimes make a full circle of a parking lot before choosing the "safest" spot to park.

[linkwpc]

Originally Posted by midnighter

Walmart parking lots and Camaros don't mix.

Never!

[davidcroft]

It's expensive, but after my 3rd door ding (luckily all of them popped out from a good guy in the biz) I bought a daily driver for such errands. You can find Chevy Malibus for cheap,they are 4 bangers and ride real smooth.

[DRKS1D3]

"I hate people who have more money than me...watch this! Damn rich bastards!!!" (Cart goes sailing into your door)

[zrc]

Walmart has security cameras everywhere, I would demand to see how my vehicle was damaged. However, in my personal attempts to avoid this issue, I just dont go to walmart. I would rather pay more and have some piece of mind and not have to deal with the scum of society that cares nothing for themselves, their things, and others. Not all walmart goes are this way, but a good percentage are, so I prefer to pay more elsewhere. I will pay more for better clients and more respect, both in the parking lot, and in the store.

I drive a motorcycle 99% of the time, and I have actually walked out of Walmart to people sitting on my bike. Which usually ends in threats and sometimes violence.