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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Paul M. Cook  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
      
   >> So lots of the minor carpark scrapes don’t legally have to be   
   >> reported, and plenty that the law does require to be reported   
   >> aren't, because only the culprit is around at the time it happens.   
      
   > Heh heh ... that's $700 in toto!   
      
   Not here.   
      
   > Do you know what costs less than $700 in toto?   
      
   > A scratch.   
      
   Or a replacement plastic bumper from the wreckers.   
      
   > Once there is bent metal or broken glass,   
   > it will almost *never* be below $700 in total.   
      
   Not if you don’t bother to fix it with the metal.   
      
   One silly cow who pulled out without looking   
   in the carpark when I was backing out got her   
   plastic bumper completely demolished by my   
   towbar. Not even a scratch on my towbar.   
      
   Her car had a fucking great gouge down the   
   drivers side doors that they clearly hadn't   
   bothered to fix in a previous stupidity.   
      
   I have quite a deep dent in my drivers door   
   that I haven't bothered to do anything about   
   that showed up, presumably someone did   
   that in the carpark and didn’t bother to tell me.   
      
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