I had a similar thing happen just last weekend. I had taken my Deere over to a friend's to use the backhoe at one corner of her lot. That corner was at an alley and the street. I was mostly on her property and had my flashers on at high noon so I could be seen.
A couple cars approached slowly to enter the alley and were able to do so with no problem. I'm off the tractor and it's even turned off when another vehicle approaches and we motion them on in as there's plently of room.
Well, plenty of room if you know how to drive, anyhow. This woman apparently didn't and managed to catch her bumper and fender on one of the teeth on my backhoe bucket. I'm standing there with a shovel in my hand when this happens and can only grab the bucket and pull it away from her car. Fortunately, as she turns further she cleared it with the rest of her car.
The sad part is this is an older woman who hadn't had her brand new car thirty days yet. Of course, when she parks in her drive she looks at the scratch and determines it was my fault somehow.
I tried to explain the bucket had not only not moved but there was no one on the tractor when she hit it; she had effectively hit a parked vehicle. Here I was attempting to use logic where it was not at all welcome. She said she was going to call the police and her son so I hung around for over an hour before I even moved the tractor and no one ever showed up. My guess is everyone told her it wasn't anyone's fault but her own.
While I felt badly for her, I sure wasn't about to take on the responsibility of fixing her car because she hit something that was parked. Then, on the other hand, I don't have to live with this driver, either. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
