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No, she hasn't. She's sorry allright, but the only thing she's sorry about is the fact that she got caught. Tell me, would you feel the same way if we were talking about YOUR car car here?

The only thing I understand is that you are scared to do the right thing. And you know what the right thing is. I wished people would start talking their responibilities towards society more serious again. That they not only would know their rights, but also their duties.

I think I would react in similar way. While *catching* somebody vandalizing my or any other cat or anything (playgound equipment seems to be popular target) would probably land me in jail for few days for disproportional violence, I cool down quickly and become more rational.

Once a guy stole a can of gas from my Citroën 2CV wreck, on other occasion a guy bumped (on icy street) into my parked car and broke turn indicator lens. In both occasions I had witnesses, and in the later physical evidence (traces of my paint on guy's car - he lives down the street). In both case I just let people know I know (and can prove) they were the culprits. (OK, prehaps I could not prove the first one - the witness was the thief's (my neighbour with, errr, checkered past) little daughter who, driving her tricycle, shouted "Mister, mister, my dad took something from your car!" ) I got my can back, and I don't remember how the later incident finished - I think the guy found the lens on some scrapyard. No need for police, courts...