Hektore

Yup. Just got a knock on my door about two hours ago.

Neighbor has a busted up rear bumper, just noticed this evening, he's not sure when it happened, car has been parked since "very early"(his words) Wednesday morning. He called the police, who came and poked around looking at other cars on the block, found the car I've been driving the past two weeks (not mine, more on that later) which has dinged bumpers on all four corners also said there was black paint on the bumper (his car is black). Cop said 'he dunnit', ran the plates knocked on my door and said "you did it, there's no doubt in my mind". Filled out an accident report and marked it un-reportable and that's where we're at right now. Now, I went out and looked at the bumper, there is no black paint on it, there is black showing but it's the plastic under the paint where the paint has been removed.

Important detail: This all takes place in Pennsylvania.

I want to take some measurements in the morning, but the guy moved his car to his garage already and there's no guarantee that he'll let me see it.

And to be clear: I did not hit this guy's car.

Now as for how the cop ended up on my doorstep. Recently my wife's grandparents went into a nursing home, we moved in to their old house so it wouldn't have to be sold or vacant (insurance on vacant houses is very expensive). So happens, they also had an old car, which I borrowed about two weeks ago because my car is not currently roadworthy (malfunctioning, not accident damaged.) The other half of this is they drove it way longer than they should have, which is why there are dings on all four corners.

Basically, because we were parked within a block of each other, within 3 days of when this happened, they're saying it's my fault. I wanted to tell the cop to go fuck himself, but I knew it wouldn't get me anywhere.

So...any advice?

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