I carry a five pound sledge hammer for use in just such situations.
Procedure is as follows. Grab hammer, approach offending vehicle and
smash out lights. Tell outraged driver I just wanted to be helpful as
the smashing of his lights etc was obviously what he/she was trying to
do by bashing into my vehicle. Tell them it's cheaper this way as I
don't have to send them a bill for the damage to my car.

Well maybe that's what I'd like to do.  Carry a digital camera. Photo
offense if possible license plate for sure.
On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 10:00  PM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

> Date:    Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:51:19 -0800
> From:    David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
> Subject: Braille parking - what would you do?
>
> Today I took the kids to the DQ to have some ice cream.  Outside I can
> see
> my TriStar as clear as day.  It is parallel parked, slight rain /
> drizzle, a
> few degrees above freezing, typical late winter day for Quesnel.  Then
> I see
> a fellow, mid to late 40s, step into the Dodge Caravan that is parked
> in
> front of my TriStar.  He starts the van, backs up and wump!  My
> TriStar is
> now bouncing up and down.  I immediately get up and out of the DQ and
> start
> walking as towards my truck and the fellow starts driving away.  No
> damage
> to the TriStar as he hit the front bull bar square on... but he just
> took
> off like nothing happened - he didn't stop, he didn't care.  I could
> have
> ran after him and easily caught up to him in the very slow down town
> traffic
> (all four way stops) but I didn't.  Besides, what would I do with him
> once I
> stopped him... bad situation these days.
>
> What would you have done in my situation?
>
> David Marshall