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@pigfarmer
My two peneth...
I think it's wrong to deliberately damage a car AT ALL. Although there is a little (huge) amount of hipocrasy in that statement as per Greasy Slag I have slapped (hard) at least 2 wing mirrors with drivers coming at me way too tightly and looked back after a very painful hit to see them 1. hanging down the side of the car and, 2. fallen to the floor (this instance was a Merc S-class - which would have been more expensive than the Lambo if it was a Gallardo).
The thing is every single similar instance I have had has always resulted in a huge amount of shame afterwards in myself that I had lowered myself to that level. When I tell the story to people I always explain how stupid and annoyed with myself I felt afterwards. As I hope most people would.
I can understand that in some instances; when a ride has been frought with near misses, annoying drivers, your girlfriends giving you greif, etc, people will see the red mist and do silly things they otherwise wouldn't, and I'd like to hope that this is a rarity, but with time to slow down significantly and aim to side smack a car purposfully is idiocy IMO.
As mentioned earlier, a quick slap of the window/body panel and a 2 fungers pointing at your eyes with a mouthing of the words 'FUCKING LOOK!!' Normally does the job pretty well for me.