While we were waiting in line a woman, either cracked up on drugs or having some kind of mental disability, walked through the line (now about 200+ people long) and hurled abuse at anyone who made eye contact. She stopped and had a massive rant at the woman standing in front of us, calling her fvcking ugly, a slut, and all kinds of names which escape me now. She moved on and about a minute later 3 cop cars, including a paddy wagon, appeared out of nowhere, screamed to a halt and they arrested her. There was a bit of a struggle but nothing major. It was at about this time we shuffled inside the studio for an even longer wait.
Fast forward 5 hours.
After 4 long hours in the studio we arrived back at our car, jumped in and headed off to find some dinner. We got back home and the missus looks at the car and goes "hey what are these marks?" "HUH?!". The car got keyed along the bonnet, and down the passenger door. Badly. A few of them cut through all layers of paint and right back to the metal. We jumped straight back in to the car and went over to Glebe police station, thinking that was the one that covered the area where we were in. It wasn't, however the officer took down all the details and promised to pass it over to Central City command who covered that particular area. He gave us a card but no reference number, but I didn't think much of that.
Yesterday I started checking out what my insurance etc covered, and since it's a process I've never been through I had no idea how it all worked. But one thing I did know was that I needed a reference number. We decided that rather than going back to Glebe we'd go to the Central City office. We went it, saw a rather unfriendly officer who took his time doing his thing. After 10 minutes he tells me that a person was arrested in relation to it, and if we could hang around 15 minutes there was an officer who would like to talk to us.
We hang around and a very friendly cop comes out and tells us what happened. Basically the woman that we saw had assaulted a woman near to where we were, then had walked down the street that we were parked on and keyed about 6 keys, including my car, a 370z, an S15 Silvia as well as pushed over a motorbike in to another car. Apparently the bike was a write-off. It was then that she walked down to the back of the line we were on, then that's when we saw her. So basically while I was no more than 50m away, my car got damaged, badly.
In the process of her getting arrested, she attacked a female police officer. Three other officers came in, including the one that I was talking to - he showed me his arm where he had a large bruise - this is where she had bitten him. Crazy sh1t. We gave a statement as to what we saw and between us and the first person who was assaulted we saw absolutely everything.
The kicker is though is that she got put in under the Mental Health Act which means she will not face any kind of criminal charges or basically be responsible or answer for all the damage she caused in any way. This part is a bit disappointing but there is some small satisfaction in knowing that the person was caught.
So today I'm calling up my insurance company to lodge my claim. As you can see in the pics it's no small amount of damage. If they do the job properly they'll have to respray the whole car since it's metallic paint. At a guess I'll be a whole week without a car which is a huge inconvenience. I'll be hitting up my insurance company to see if they can help out with a loan car, but since I didn't check that box I doubt I will have any luck. All I can say is "thank fvck I'm over 25 now" otherwise my insurance excess would've been raped.
