[Jdawg3576]

Thanks for all the kind remarks. It was a remarkably windy day but the parking lot was not that full. There was no reason for somebody to park there next to me unless they were deliberately trying to be a**holes. I really hope it wasn't a deliberate act of vandalism. I have always heard of things like this happening to nice BMW's, but I always thought to myself "there has to be some other reason why this happened, etc.." Perhaps I was wrong...

Update: This particular part of the fender is double pressed steel and cannot be just pulled out by a good dent guy. Now the car has to go to the body shop, be torn apart and the whole fender has to be repainted. Cost around $800 from my local BMW bodyshop.