What I see, reading this story, is you being a scapegoat child and that's something nobody should be. I remember my father having a Toyota Dyna truck when I was a kid and it had a few external rear view mirrors broken by passing cars flicking up stones. I used to go riding in the truck with my father, but he would NEVER, have gotten me to look out the window and see if there were any cars coming up beside him. If he did, he would asked if there were any cars, trucks or buses. I'm guessing, however, that your father was out drinking until late at night and drove home drunk and that was how the mirror went missing.

You did NOT deserve what you got. If anything, your father should think himself lucky that the owner of whatever he hit causing he mirror to break didn't take his details, as he could have had the police knock on the door and say, "Sir, are you the registered own of a pick-up truck, license plate number....?" "Yeah." "Well, Sir, we need you to accompany us to the station." And yes, an athletic teenager compared to a four year old is different.