1.5 million women have owned up to deliberately vandalising motor vehicles during a recent study by Direct Line.
The vandalism ranges from smashing windows, slashing tyres, breaking-off car parts, scratching paintwork and even denting the bodywork when car surfing (where passengers of moving vehicles perform stunts to imitate “surfing” on the bonnet, boot or roof of the car while it is being driven along).
Car surfing is obviously illegal and has resulted in several deaths during the course of such stunts.
The Direct Line research revealed there has been a fifty per cent increase in the amount of 11-17 year old females damaging cars with a surprising 23% of them saying they did it on the spur of the moment because they couldn’t find anything better to do!!
10% said they were drunk at the time and 8% claimed to do it because of peer pressure.
The report by Direct Line Insurance also revealed that car vandalism is not all that women have vandalised. In fact it revealed that more than 1 million adult women have deliberately damaged property/possessions over the last five years.
Vandalism causes a lot of inconvenience and expense for the person that has suffered at the hands of these type of senseless activities. If you have been affected by such unwarranted vandalism, then you have my sympathy.
For those who did the damage, spare a thought for the person who owns the property you are damaging and find something less destructive to do – please!!