Now I live and work on Bedarra Island, and my 69 S stays with my Mum in Cairns, she live in a gated apartment Block, nothing flash, just means you have to jump the fence to get in if you dont live there. Anyhow, on Sat night she parked it in the complex, at 3 am 5 drunk people come back to there apartment, and decide to , yes move my Mini and turn it 180 deg, side on in the car park, and to make matters worse the CCTV cuts out where they did it so no CCTV!! So my mum confronts them in the morning, the girl admits to telling the guys not to do it, but because I dont have CCTV, I guess theres not much I can do, all I can say is they were lucky I wasnt there.......

All I can say it better look like I left it.

So why do other people have to F$%@ with other peoples property, esp our loved Minis. Now Im getting an alarm!!!

Sorry for venting my anger everyone, just peeved off Im so far away and cant do anything.......



Cheers Andre and Fi.

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electrify it zap the bastards

dam thats no good i hope its still how you left it when you return.



TUCK3R

Might be worth contacting them and letting them know you'll inspect the car and expect them to pay for any damage on it (you wont find any unless they were very rough with it ) maybe even tell them it is on CCTV and your in two minds about reporting them just to give them a real scare. Then confront them when your next down their and see if they squirm, they might learn not to do it again...or you could just do $hit to their cars, undoing drive shafts is easy on RWD cars or put some pin holes in their radiator hoses, the Cairns heat will do the rest .

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I just hope, they havent damaged any mech?

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Yep, teach them to be re$pon$ible for their actions!

I left my mini first mini on the street one night and found it on the footpath in the morning. Never left it on the street again.

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If / when you get the alarm make sure you get a level sensor... Not all alarms will even go off if the car is moved

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how did they pickit up??? nurf bars?

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bloody bastards....it'd be even worse to be TOLD about it!

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I can't imagine a mini being moved by 4 guys (especially drunk guys) w/o leaving nasty panel damage, ripping the flares off etc.

Get your mum to fill in a police report and get the cops over there - you'll need it anyway for any insurance claims plus as extra leverage if you'll ever have to chase them up for money.

my dad and his mates used to go round to my mum's work in Pitt St Sydney in the 70s and pick her mini up and turn it round so it was parked the wrong way all the time. never did any damage to it as far as i know. But that was just a bit of fun, what these drunk guys did was completely disrespectful

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Same with my Californian Moke , workmates used to carefully turn it around by it's bars and it was a long running mutual joke among mates (I used to put cable ties on their driveshafts as well) , this is entirely differnt though and an S can't be picked up as gently as a moke with the californian bars and without damage (check it over completely and call the police in on it , even if it's only to have it recorded as insurance if it happens again) . I'm really getting sick of seeing stuff on here and in the media about peoples cars being touched and damaged by complete strangers who have no idea what they mean to us .

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Same thing happened to my son's clubby. But parking near a high school was probably asking for trouble. Another club car here (deluxe) was tipped on its side late at nite in a shopping centre car park.

Seems these morons are suffering from the "garden gnome syndrome".

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its a shame to hear about your S

at high school my clubbie was turned and pulled by 4 guys, dane snapped a picture of it one day after it was moved, i didnt mind when i knew who was turning it, cause i knew it was only a bit of fun, but then some others saw it and thought theyd join in, thats when i wasnt impressed, cause it started impacting on other people, and put my mini in danger of getting hit.

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