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TOTALLY CAUGHT!

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I think you should go to the police, "Lapse of judgement" my arse, that's criminal (isn't it?) I've had enough cars keyed to want justice if it's available, even if it is only for Hertz. Scumbag.

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SF police don't like to deal with stuff like this. I've seen them first hand try to dismiss stuff like this.

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she asked if it was my car. I told her that it was my friend's and that I was sorry if it disturbed her. She pretty much stormed off as she was upset

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I would say you should at least notify the property management. there may have been in the past other 'lapses', or more to come.

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The car alarm was definitely going off when she did "her deed."

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leeway (sp?) ... mute point

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I say screw her! ...and the tape will find itself sent to lots of places.

POST IT!!
I WANNA SEE TOO!

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you should point it out, and give them the lady's contact info, so they can bill her for damages.

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I really am feeling that she HAS paid in some ways for what she has done.

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No, she hasn't. She's sorry allright, but the only thing she's sorry about is the fact that she got caught. Tell me, would you feel the same way if we were talking about YOUR car car here?

The only thing I understand is that you are scared to do the right thing. And you know what the right thing is. I wished people would start talking their responibilities towards society more serious again. That they not only would know their rights, but also their duties.

I think I would react in similar way. While *catching* somebody vandalizing my or any other cat or anything (playgound equipment seems to be popular target) would probably land me in jail for few days for disproportional violence, I cool down quickly and become more rational.

Once a guy stole a can of gas from my Citroën 2CV wreck, on other occasion a guy bumped (on icy street) into my parked car and broke turn indicator lens. In both occasions I had witnesses, and in the later physical evidence (traces of my paint on guy's car - he lives down the street). In both case I just let people know I know (and can prove) they were the culprits. (OK, prehaps I could not prove the first one - the witness was the thief's (my neighbour with, errr, checkered past) little daughter who, driving her tricycle, shouted "Mister, mister, my dad took something from your car!" ) I got my can back, and I don't remember how the later incident finished - I think the guy found the lens on some scrapyard. No need for police, courts...

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To be honest, I think that this woman wields more power than I do within the courts and with the cops. She most probably will figure out how to skate, and then all I've done is created a real enemy and made our co-existence much more difficult.

Find out who, within her (legal) world (another lawyer) are her enemies...you know her fellow lawyers whom she has screwed out of a promotion, pulled some crappy manauvor in court or just pissed them off...This is easily done! And any lawyer with a year or more past the bar has these, without a doubt. Then go talk to THAT person. I am sure the RIGHT thing can be done, at little or no expenense to you or your friend, and you can make protection from repercussion part of the deal....What is the saying...'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'....sometimes....Just my 2 cents worth and no, you can't have change!

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and then all I've done is created a real enemy and made our co-existence much more difficult.

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Good for you. She deserves the liability, the fine and the public embarassment. She won't be disbarred & she can afford the fines and the lesson.

-Zeke

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stuff like this enrages me

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She's a bit of a bulldog.

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or anyone with more money to fight me in court or more muscle and malice to lash back at me.

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If it had been a teenager living in the building, the police would already have been called.

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worse, a lawyer who lives next door

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Well, it wouldn't really be "public"...

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It doesn't matter who broke the law, or how much power they have.

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But wouldn't you be afraid of retaliation for turning someone in (or helping to do so)? Someone irrational enough to do bad seems capable of doing more bad if they are busted like this.

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You can't let people act like this woman without repercussions. People have to be responsible for their actions.

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You can't let people act like this woman without repercussions. People have to be responsible for their actions.

She told me that she'd be financially responsible for any damages that my friend has... So far, there were none.

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You can't let people act like this woman without repercussions. People have to be responsible for their actions.

She told me that she'd be financially responsible for any damages that my friend has... So far, there were none.

Her financial responsibility does not lie with your friend but with Hertz. If she's willing to go down to Hertz and pay the damages, then I would totally agree that there would no longer be a need for the police. But being responsible for your actions doesn't mean you're responsible only if you're caught.