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Man Sleeps in His Car for a Month to Catch Serial Car Scratcher | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
A Belorussian man who had had his car scratched over 20 times in the last six months, finally managed to catch the perpetrator in the act after sleeping in the vehicle for a month.
Finding your car scratched is unpleasant, but definitely not uncommon, which is why Kot Matroskin, a driver from Minsk, Belarus, didn’t pay much attention when it first happened to him, about six months ago. But after noticing subsequent scratches on the fender of his Volkswagen Polo, in a relatively short period of time, he started looking for clues about who might want to scratch his car and why. He was soon able to deduct that the scratching occurred only when he parked his car near a pedestrian walkway at the entrance of a park, and seemed to be done with the same object, as the scratches all looked very similar.
The Belorussian driver admits that this last month was tough. Having to spend several hours in a sleeping bag on the backseat of his car, unable to get any sleep, only to go home disappointed was hard to deal with. But luckily, his sacrifice was not in vain. On the morning of November 27, at 5:40 am, he heard someone pass by the car, followed by the characteristic long scraping sound of metal on metal. He quickly got out to confront his nemesis, but instead of the manly vandal he had imagined, he came face to face with a little old lady with white hair sticking out from under a funny hat.
Kot filmed the whole confrontation with his phone, and even though at some point you can see the woman pleading with him, he writes that she actually feels no remorse for what she did, and is actually only complaining about being late to work. Matroskin adds that the woman only accepted responsibility for the scratches she left that morning, offering to pay him for the damage if he let her go without calling the police, but denying that she had scratched his car on other occasions. As for a reason why she scratched the man’s car, she couldn’t offer any.
A Belorussian man who had had his car scratched over 20 times in the last six months, finally managed to catch the perpetrator in the act after sleeping in the vehicle for a month.
Finding your car scratched is unpleasant, but definitely not uncommon, which is why Kot Matroskin, a driver from Minsk, Belarus, didn’t pay much attention when it first happened to him, about six months ago. But after noticing subsequent scratches on the fender of his Volkswagen Polo, in a relatively short period of time, he started looking for clues about who might want to scratch his car and why. He was soon able to deduct that the scratching occurred only when he parked his car near a pedestrian walkway at the entrance of a park, and seemed to be done with the same object, as the scratches all looked very similar.
The Belorussian driver admits that this last month was tough. Having to spend several hours in a sleeping bag on the backseat of his car, unable to get any sleep, only to go home disappointed was hard to deal with. But luckily, his sacrifice was not in vain. On the morning of November 27, at 5:40 am, he heard someone pass by the car, followed by the characteristic long scraping sound of metal on metal. He quickly got out to confront his nemesis, but instead of the manly vandal he had imagined, he came face to face with a little old lady with white hair sticking out from under a funny hat.
Kot filmed the whole confrontation with his phone, and even though at some point you can see the woman pleading with him, he writes that she actually feels no remorse for what she did, and is actually only complaining about being late to work. Matroskin adds that the woman only accepted responsibility for the scratches she left that morning, offering to pay him for the damage if he let her go without calling the police, but denying that she had scratched his car on other occasions. As for a reason why she scratched the man’s car, she couldn’t offer any.