Porsche-driving lawyer pays up for keying cars parked improperly

Posted: Jun 07, 2011
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I Park Like An Idiot

A private parking garage was receiving repeated reports from patrons that their cars were being keyed. Susan Wassell was one of the victims of the keying who also found a note calling her an idiot and telling her to take parking lessons. All of the people who had their vehicles vandalized were parked outside the lines.

Security guards set up a sting operation where they parked a car incorrectly on purpose in order to attract whomever was damaging the vechicles. They ended up catching Ronald Clarke Mattson, a 63-year-old respected Seattle Lawyer who drives a Porsche himself.

Mattson paid out over $6,000 in damages for the crimes. He states that he “takes full responsibility” for what he did and adds that he “received treatment to address the cause of this aberrant behavior.”

Oh, how we love rich and entertaining folks.

- By: Alexandra Koken

Source: USAToday


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  • Anonymous

    I just bought a 40 pack of these bumper stickers, such a great way to make someone feel stupid for a terrible parking job

  • Anonymous

    I just bought a 40 pack of these bumper stickers, such a great way to make someone feel stupid for a terrible parking job

  • UlyssesSG

    A $6,000 fine isn’t enough for this presumably well-heeled barister. He should have been penalized costs of repairs plus damages for the defaced autos, fined a percentage of his annual gross income not to be less than $10,000 AND required to do so many hours community service. Perhaps hand-sweeping public parking garages would have been an appropriate assignment. I’m tired of wealthy, connected people getting a slap on the wrist for injuring others and totally disrespecting their property. If this lawyer dude has problems with people who park in a manner that offends him, then he should use his writing skills and well-educated mind to write letters to his local newspapers and parking authority to register his displeasure. Even a simp[le and civil Post-It note on the windshield would have been okay to my way of thinking, but keying someone’s car crosses the line.

  • UlyssesSG

    A $6,000 fine isn’t enough for this presumably well-heeled barister. He should have been penalized costs of repairs plus damages for the defaced autos, fined a percentage of his annual gross income not to be less than $10,000 AND required to do so many hours community service. Perhaps hand-sweeping public parking garages would have been an appropriate assignment. I’m tired of wealthy, connected people getting a slap on the wrist for injuring others and totally disrespecting their property. If this lawyer dude has problems with people who park in a manner that offends him, then he should use his writing skills and well-educated mind to write letters to his local newspapers and parking authority to register his displeasure. Even a simp[le and civil Post-It note on the windshield would have been okay to my way of thinking, but keying someone’s car crosses the line.

  • Anonymous

    agreed.  He may have done it at first to teach a lesson (which is still wrong), but then it seems like it just became a fun hobby or something.  what an idiot

  • Spawnywhippet

    Where can I buy these stickers? I would need a least a pallet-load in my neighbourhood. In Singapore, lines on the road seem to be completely invisible to the predominantly Chinese drivers

  • UlyssesSG

    Spawnywhippet queried: “Where can I buy these stickers?”

    UlyssesSG: These bumper stickers are available for purchase at http://www.iparklikeanidiot.com/. Havwe fun woth them in Singapore. ;)