Vandals with a feminine touch!
A recent article highlights the increasing incidence of motor vehicle crime committed by females.
As a reaction to rising vandalism offences, the insurance company Direct Line did a bit of digging. The results that were revealed were somewhat surprising.
Recent studies have shown that women are the culprits of vandalism to a greater extent than most would think. Women owning up to acts of vandalism upon a motor vehicle recently totalled about 1.5 million women. Direct Line actively encourages car owners to consider acts of vandalism in their insurance policies.
Why are women climbing the charts all of a sudden? Why are they suddenly turning into yobs? Probable causes include alcohol and sheer boredom. The Direct Line report on vandalism revealed there is a fifty per cent increase in the amount of 11-17 year old females doing damage to cars. Popular yob-like activities these girls are taking to include scratching paintwork, window smashing and tyre slashing. While 10% claimed their actions were the result of being drunk, twenty three per cent offered the reason of having nothing whatsoever better to do. Eight per cent of female vandals blame peer pressure for their wrecking sprees while most claim it was a last minute thing.
This female vandal crime agenda accounts for up to sixty thousand criminal offences annually across the last five years. They tend to gravitate towards the acts of public property damaging, messing around with road signs, interfering with personal property of a third party and graffiti.
Direct Line’s UK Vandalism Report revealed an overall accumulation of offences caused by females. Results revealed that car vandal victims had increased by thirty per cent. Something of a girls in gangs culture was revealed to be the cause of a substantial increase in car vandalism. As a result, Direct Line car insurance became the first motor insurance product to offer protection of no claims bonus in cases of vandalism.
Now that people are tightening their belts throughout this season of credit-crunching, it helps a lot to know that random acts of vandalism cannot affect your No Claims Bonus.
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