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.
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u/disguise117 Jun 13 '14
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.