Just wanted to share my unsavoury experience from today.
I got back from work this evening and arrived back at my beautiful car, which had been sat quietly waiting for me all day in the train station car park. Some absolute [insert an appropriate slur here] has stolen my passenger side windscreen wiper!
Who even does that?! As I approached I saw that the passenger wiper arm was raised, minus the blade. Of course it was bucketing down at the time. At least they left me with the driver’s side so I could get home, very considerate
Presumably our blades will fit other cars, I can’t bring myself to believe another MX5 owner would do that, but who knows?
I used to have a 1981 Mini 850 van. I quite liked the chrome grill, front bumper and headlamp rims I added. Then someone took 'em in Glasgow. They had my door mirrors as well. Left me the actual headlights at least.
I visited Romania in the 80s and noticed most people removed their wiper blades when parked overnight.
I asked why. Seems the great 5 year plan had not included any replacement wiper blades and imports were difficult/prohibitively expensive.
Of course the official line was that there was no crime in Ceaușescu’s Romania, but daily offers of black market goods and hard currency exchange belied this.
The same was true in Russia. My Dad there a few times on business in the 90s, and there was a driver to take them round various offices and sites. When the car was parked up and left alone, the wiper blades would be removed in case of theft. Likely for the same background reasons as with Romania.
It does seem a very odd thing to happen here though, and I’d almost put it in practical joke territory - perhaps if it had happened in a works carpark! Also, the wiper blade size in question is reasonably common, so we can’t be 100% sure it was taken for use on another MX-5 either…
There are some scum bags about everywhere! Does the station have CCTV? Can you get access to it? Would be a bit painful sitting through hours of it though.
Some of that was true in Glasgow in the early 90s. I parked my 1981 Austin Mini van outside my University Halls of Residence (East End), and someone had away the wipers, the door mirrors and the headlight trims by the morning.
