Posted on 09/24/2023 4:38:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Poor actions always have poor consequences. Here’s an incident that revolves around similar plot!
A netizen recently asked, “Am I a jerk for suing my girlfriend after she had my 1967 Impala project taken to the scrapyard?”. We need you to find out!
The Original Poster (OP) had a 1967 Impala 4 door that he bought in Feb 2019. A couple of months ago he bought his first house that had a 2.5 acre car garage. OP moved the car in and started tearing it down for a complete restoration.
“I had the body in one bay and the chassis in another, plus the whole garage filled with parts.”, says OP.
About two months ago, OP’s girlfriend came to live with him during this whole crisis and the whole time has hated that car. She wants to park in the garage, but OP has 2 acres of land with a lot of nice places to park under shady trees or hell even in the barn if it has to be inside.
“I tell her tough luck it’s my house and it’s not like I can just throw it back together real quick.”, says OP.
Anyways, OP was out of town for a couple of days on a business trip for the small local company he works for.
When OP got back, his girlfriend was all smiles. Making him food all the time, doing all the chores, all that. OP thought maybe she was just happy to have him home but then he realized that he didn’t see her car in its usual spot.
OP asked her where she parked so he could make sure he mowed that area and keep it clean and she said not to worry because she parked in the garage. OP asked how and she told him to go check it out.
Turns out that while OP was gone, she hired some people to come over and move everything related to that car, including the drive-train, body, chassis and all parts, and take it to the local dump/scrapyard. OP was absolutely dumbfounded.
“I had spent over 11k on that car including new parts, services, and the car itself.”, says OP.
OP told her that he was going to be taking her to court for that and she brushed him off like he was being dramatic. OP told her that it was done between them and to pack her things and leave.
“I admit I was really angry but I did end up getting a lawyer. As I have all the receipts for all that money spent and I have her on my house’s security camera footage letting the guys in and watching them take it all I think I can win.”, says OP.
The girlfriend’s family and friends are absolutely blowing OP up saying it’s just a stupid old piece of junk that she cannot pay back all that money OP spent, and that he should just let it go.
“But I have been putting all my time, effort, and money into that car for a year and a half now and imagine now even getting justice for what she did. Am I a jerk?”, asks OP.
Not the jerk. Relationship-wise: this was a gross overstep on her part just to get her way on something minor. Ending the relationship immediately was the right thing to do.
Legal wise: Don’t destroy something you can’t afford to replace. Take her down, let her pay it off over the next few years.”
“Not the jerk. That is messed up and I can’t believe anyone is defending that behavior. I mean maybe if you were married for years and that stuff had been sitting around for like 10 years or something and it was also her house I could see an argument…but none of that is the case here. I would be livid. Wow just wow. Yeah unless she can get it all back somehow she owes you.”
Maybe she overheard him say “She’s got some junk in the trunk” referring to the car and, well, just kind of overreacted.
A gal I know got sued by her adult son because she threw away all of his old toys
She ended up having to pay him
I am a woman and this woman was wrong. A person has no right to get rid of someone else’s things behind their back.
She was selfish and I imagine jealous of that car taking attention from her self important self.
He needs to pick better women and from the first moment she started whining about her car, he should have told her to pack her things and park yourself and your car elsewhere.
She needs to be sued.
Girlfriend went about this totally wrong. Should have move it to the nearest handicap spot and then just let matters unfold.
Something tells me that the car never made it to the scrap yard.....
Good point.
Back in the mid-80s I had the chance to buy a very nice original condition ‘66 (’67?) 4-speed Impala coupe with a 427. The price was $6500 if I remember correctly, anyway not a ton of money. I was single, and could have afforded it pretty easily. However, I was living in an apartment and didn’t have a secure place to park it. This was in Jacksonville FL, there were always Navy personnel transferring overseas, and a lot of nice muscle cars on the market.
Ta heck with suing that botch, lawyers, judges, courts etc.
I’d most likely be doing about 20 years to life for 1st degree murder...
Honestly she was lucky not to be beaten as well. It should be immediate eviction and lawsuits. Evil bitch. You don’t need someone that selfish in your life.
I agree with the remarks of others here, this was a very inexpensive way to end the relationship. Had he married her, this type of behavior and probably worse would have gone on and on making his life a nightmare.
From the words of another poster, she’s a spoiled rotten entitled karen.
She needs to find some emasculated nitwit that bows to her every whim.
Her dodged a bullet. This would have gotten worse.
I want to know if the men she hired have finished putting the car together or I feel they’re parting it out.
I respectfully disagree. I think it illustrates the difference between Christian girls and girls with no real love for their husbands.
The girl was wrong, wrong, wrong.
It was not her property to decide what to do with.
Yes, sue her sorry butt into the poor house.
IDK, but there is probably a VIN involved.
Probably vehicle theft involved.
The problem is both why she thought her actions were Ok & why he cares what other people think.
It’s a troubling trend.
No. Any man or woman with any integrity knows that you have no right to decide what to do with someone else's property. What she did is called *stealing*, and is wrong and it is NOT a *normal* difference between men and women.
No. Any man or woman with any integrity knows that you have no right to decide what to do with someone else's property. What she did is called *stealing*, and is wrong and it is NOT a *normal* difference between men and women.
1. Marry her.
2. Insure her heavily.
3. Collect the insurance.
On the car, on the car.
I was referring to the estimation of the man's classic car project as "junk."
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