Figures released recently showed women conduct an alarming amount of car vandalism! Nearly 1.5 million women admit to deliberately damaging a vehicle. The damage ranges from slashing tyres, breaking-off car parts, smashing windows, scratching paintwork or even denting the bodywork by “car surfing”.

Ladies, please what is going on here?

The findings from the UK Vandalism Report by Direct Line Car Insurance follows the recent release of figures revealing offences by girls aged between 11 and 17 have risen 50 per cent to 59,000 incidents each year since 2004.

However, cars are not the only targets of female vandals, with over 1 million adult women having deliberately damaged public property or someone else’s belongings within the last five years alone. The types of vandalism used by women include ‘graffiti’ on walls and tampering with road signs or traffic cones.

The trigger driving the so-called ‘fairer sex’ to conduct their most recent act of petty vandalism is primarily boredom (23 per cent), while for one-in-ten it is an alcohol fuelled act (9 per cent). The findings of the Vandalism Report reflect recent research into female behaviour, which has found the number of women arrested for being drunk and disorderly, has soared by up to 1,000 per cent in some regions.

For the majority of women (62 per cent) these were ‘spur of the moment’ acts. Eight per cent also revealed they were pressured into deliberately causing damage by their peers.

This is terrible news so girls keep cool under all circumstances. Do you really want to end up like him indoors?

Jackie Violet – Female First