can you guess what caused the scratches

[MendoDave]

You were driving through a hailstorm, then out of nowhere came a tornado!  The tornado had just tore through Nate's yard, picked up a bunch of cats, and as they were flying past your car, they made lots of scratches on your hood while trying to hang on so they wouldn't be blown away?  Maybe his turkey left some scratches too... 

[Latinbalar]

Some one shot a porn in your office parking lot/garage and while getting the money shot the camera man slipped and fell on the hood of your car?

[Bick]

This was the cause...
Meatballs  -  A scary story

[Goat_Herder]

A ninja assassin fell thru the roof and landed on the hood and caused the dent.  All the weaponry landed on the hood and scratched up the paint, as the ninja tried to regain balance and consciousness.

[lethe]

You were racing the local punks again and your extreme speed started peeling the paint from your car in strips.
A week more of your deviant behavior and full racing stripes will develop.

[zooom]

Guy Fieri was having a Japanese Steakhouse cooking demonstration on the hood of your car and the spatulas caused the scratches and the dents were from the banging of the shakers and various other items....some of these were a bit more excessive as Duff Goldman was there being the comedic relief making Guy laugh harder and Anne Burrell was playing the "straight man" of the three with her spicy commentary....

[du mass]

dents from jay cutlers tears and scratches from his purse

[fastwin]

Actually tornadoes can form in frigid conditions.

And I'm following the blood trail to Nate's turkey. You know how I have innate (and no, this had nothing to do with Nate! ) distrust and loathing of turkeys. I'm thinking the rat birds with big tails had something to do with this. Just saying...  

[the_Journeyman]

Hmmm...  Scratches & dings...

Purely circumstantial, however I do hypothesize a scenario.  It seems you were traveling down a local road taking in the scenery that only a small town can offer.  A bit distracted by the lull of the tires whining on the pavement and the putter of a small engine, you never saw someone step into the edge of the travel lane.  As you snapped back to reality, and made an attempt to dodge the person, you cleared the sandpaper salesman, but managed to hit and split open his briefcase of sandpaper.  In just a thought, the side of your car had sandpaper sliding along it with an eerie "SKKSKSKSKSKSKSK" leaving a rather noticeable set of scratches.  In the panic of regaining control from the near miss and the awful sound of the sandpaper sliding along the car you headed right for another salesman on the sidewalk.  This gentleman, in his haste simply flung his briefcase away and bolted.  As the newly dispatched briefcase flew through the air, the weight of its contents overwhelmed the latches and it burst open.  In an armageddon-like shower from an angry got of metallurgy, ball bearings rained down upon your already battle-scared conveyance.  When all came to rest, all were well.  The worst for wear of the scenario were two, empty-handed and out of breath salesmen, one for sandpaper and one for ball bearings along with a sad car with a newly assaulted fender.

JM

[badgalbetty]

Journeyman........damn! You win!  2 billion points!
That is exactly what happened!

Actually a goat decided to jump onto my car and perfrom the Riverdance....3 times with a matinee performance at 1.05 in the afternoon.

[Jarvicious]

Actually, that was my second guess.  Was Justin Timberlake playing, because that was what caused my last bout of hood scratching.  Well, that and a fifth of Zubrowka 

[zooom]

and my other guess was that the travelocity gnome was holding a Zumba class on your hood and got confused and started breakdancing because he had the wrong shoes on and they scratched and scuffed the hell outta the hood in the process when he was playing off his "oops" moment of realization....

[redxblack]

I figured a timberwolf in heat escaped from the local zoo and was hiding on the roof of your car while local stray dogs attempted to hit some wild strange. I know that's how at least two of my cars got damaged. I no longer live near the zoo.