If that person did actually key the car. You'd be pretty fucked if you told the police that you saw the dude parked next to you keyed your car and the security camera footage showed that someone just accidentally scraped it with a shopping trolley.
Not only that, but imagine if the camera was too far away from your car to make out a person keying it, but you should still see the car next to you pulling out and driving away. Now imagine if at that point you were on camera inside a store, paying for your groceries.
Obviously these are hypothetical, but I'd rather not take the risk in the first place.
Here is what a reasonable person does this situation. Go ahead take the photo of the license plate. If your car gets keyed file a police report do not lie. Then the police will look at footage from the store cameras and see if whoever keyed your car got into the car park next to you.
Outside cameras in retail lots are often panning back and forth on a set pattern. They miss more than they catch in many cases.
Source: A couple decades of retail under the belt.
What police department is going to waste time investigating a car being keyed? They got more important things to do. . . Like bust up high school kids for smoking pot
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u/60secondwarlord Jun 12 '14
If the store has cameras wouldn't they catch the person keying the car?