Black duct tape made my day

Some asshole broke my car window for fun the other night. I'm sure it was just for fun on account of there was nothing missing from the car -- not even the few bucks worth of spare change on the front seat & in the drink holder thingy. I guess I'm not surprised that they left the ratty sneakers & bag of dirty gym clothes, but they don't appear to have even gone through the car looking for anything to steal. The bastards.

Plus: the fucking doors were unlocked.

I didn't notice anything was amiss right away, but I kept hearing broken glass noise from the back. I figured it was just a loose fruit juice bottle clanking around the back of the minivan or something like that. But I eventually noticed the side back windowpane was smashed in, so I called the cops to report it. Then later I taped some plastic over it because it was looking like it might rain. I thought it would look crappy with the silver duct tape, so I tried to find some clear packing tape. No luck. But in my workroom I found a whole drawer entirely full of different kinds of tape: paper packing tape, purple masking tape, two-sided scotch tape, foam weatherstripping tape, two-sided picture-hanging tape, and black duct tape.

My car is black. I cut the plastic to the exact shape of the window (more or less), and taped it so smoothly & neatly & very securely. I gotta say it doesn't look all that bad, considering, but it's going to suck trying to clean it all off once I get the window fixed this week.