Correction: an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the guilty party’s workplace.
A town planner has plead guilty and fined $1250 for repeatedly keying a stanger’s car each morning on her way to work. We also finally know why, too.
Jane Flanagan, 53, was charged with five charges of malicious damage on an Audi FWD parked outside owner Evan Hansimikali‘s house in the swank eastern Syd suburb Dover Heights.
She was caught after Hansimikali installed a dashboard camera in his car, which, surely was inevitable after the fourth deep scratch.
When we first reported it, we were utterly baffled as to the reasons why Flanagan repeatedly keyed the car as she walked past it on her morning commute.
While it’s tempting to imagine Flanagan as the seventh verse within Chicago‘s “Cell Block Tango”, there’s no sordid history between the parties.
After the court case, Hansimikali told Nine News that he didn’t know her, and was mostly confused as to who “would do that to one of your neighbours”.
But in court, we learnt that Flanagan did it because she thought the car, parked in a driveway, was illegally parked over the footpath.
She did it because she was mildly inconvenienced each morning, keying it as she had to move a few steps to the left to walk around it.
For the record, Hansimikali is 100% certain it’s a legal park.
We’re still left with so many questions.
How many times did she have to veer her steps slightly to the left before the resentment built up to committing a crime?
Was it a slow burn, stoked one day by a maelstrom of a terrible morning? Are we talking months or days before the first keying took place?
Pre-meditated or carefully planned? Did she have a plan of when to stop, or had she gone too deep into her revenge? Had it become something greater, skewed into a framework of David v Goliath, or, better yet, Rihanna v the bitch in BBBMH?
When Nine tried to approach Flanagan, she had no comments. Guess we’ll never know.
The vehicle is under repair after its owner lodged a claim with his insurance company.
Source: Nine News
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