Some bitch ran into me in the Safeway parking lot last night

Can we just clear something up here real quick?

FOR THE LOVE OF BABY KANGAROOS AND HEBREW NATIONAL HOT DOGS, THE BONG IS NOT WORTH $300. JESUS ANAL FUCK.

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Just because OP's friend paid $300 for an overpriced piece of glass does NOT mean that is what it's worth. OP, if you bought the stapler off my desk right now for $300, would you expect to receive $300 in damages if someone grabbed it out of your bag and smashed it on the ground? FUCK NO. It's a god damn stapler. The broken shards of glass in your backpack are probably worth 25 bucks.
 
If you bought a $30,000 car 3 years ago, is it still worth what you paid for it now? No. Do you really think some shitty bong isn't going to depreciate rapidly? It's a piece of glass that you smoke out of. It's probably worth next to nothing compared to how much it was purchased for.
 
once again im not taking a side here but you simply don't have enough information to be phrasing such a strong and condescending opinion here... you don't know anything about the glass but have decided to assume he overpaid, and you also dont know anything about the legal situation itself-- you use the example of a car (which is a bad analogy for other reasons)-- if the car accident had happened and she had totaled his car, wouldnt she typically be responsible for REPLACEMENT cost, not market value or something else? im sure it varies according to lots of things but..?
 
Negative. She would be liable for the actual cash value of the car prior to the accident, which is typically dictated by fair market values. These can come from Kelly Blue Book and NADA values which take into account depreciation but are often a proprietary blend of the insurance providers formulas. This can differ from actual replacement value and the insurance companies are not obligated to anything beyond actual cash value. That said, they WILL lowball you and you WILL need to negotiate and fight for a higher payout. Taking the first offer from a insurance company is a telltale sign of naivety.

The car analogy gets a little fuzzy in this case though because a solid depreciation standard exists for cars whereas I highly doubt such a standard exists for bongs. The women owes the OP something for the damaged property. It is hard to say exactly what she owes though.
 
okay thanks. as said, cars are a bad analogy.

i suppose a better comparison to make would be, say she ran over your skis or something (her fault), would she have to pay the amount it will take you to replace them, or what the market value would be?
 
It would still be actual cash value - the price a person would expect to buy the exact same item in the exact condition of the item immediately prior to the accident. If someone damages my used stuff, I'm not entitled to brand new stuff, just like-used stuff.
 
hm that's interesting. seems sort of unfair because, say you DAMAGED my car badly, wouldnt you have to pay the cost of the repairs, that is, the cost it takes to get my item back to the shape it was in before you hit me?

so, with any item that i cannot simply buy a used one of at a proportionate price (e.g. a bong), if it's totaled, that's way worse than any level of damage below totaling because i will NOT be awarded the amount necessary to return my item to the state it was in before you hit me?
 
I would agree it can be fickle when items are not easily replaceable and I'm sure determing a cash value of a used bong would be a difficult endeavor, but I can confidently say that a claim for full purchase price would be wholly unfair as well.
 
hey OP one more thing. did you ever why the insurance company isn't covering it? probably because ITS A FUCKING BONG.

 
you really think they give a shit about some stoners bong thats 300 bucks? they've got bigger fish to fry, trust me.
 
yeah i mean that's true, but what happens when you break something of your buddy's? you replace it, because you're the sole reason he no longer has a working one, and it's just tough shit for you that in order to replace it, you need to buy it at full value

what im saying is, i think it's arguable both ways
 
The general public might think spending hundreds of dollars on ski equipment is incredibly stupid as well.

Regardless of how stupid an item of personal property may seem to another, damaging or destroying that equipment would still result in said person being responsible for the value of the item. You can't just destroy other people's things because you personally wouldn't spend your money that way.
 
I say sue for all you can. Disregard the fact that it was a bong because $300 is enough to sue over in small claims court. Good luck and fuck the other people that seem to think $300 grows on trees
 
But are you replacing it at full price just because it is your buddy, or because of an ethical/moral reason in the case of a stranger? A stranger with a different ethical/moral compass could view things differently. And a business entity like an insurance agency CERTAINLY will view things differently.
 
And I would venture to guess that a court would view it much like the business entity would.
 
right, exactly what i meant. when i replace my buddy's thing it's because i believe the ethical/responsible thing to do in that situation is replace it because im the reason it needs replacing-- too bad for me that i have to pay retail price even if he's had whatever it is for 6 months or whatever

but yeah, like you said, that's not something every person, nevermind a company, is going to agree with
 
To all the dickheads in this thread thinking it's stupid to buy a $300 bong have obviously never smoked out of a $300 bong... it's incredible.
 
A few years ago my car was parked in an apt complex parking lot and a drunk driver jumped the curb and crashed into the side of it and smashed it into a truck totaling it. The guy just backed up and parked a few spots down and you could see mud tracks where he went through the grass and ran into my car and then parked and also his cell phone was lying on the ground right next to his car. The piece of shit cop didn't even look for the guy and wrote a half-assed report, called a tow truck and left. I had to go through a bunch of shit just to find out who the guy was and it turned out that he didn't have insurance. I only had liability so my insurance wouldn't cover the repairs so i just lost the car.
 
If he has his card he is completely legal and can choose to do what he wants with his money. the bong is just another piece of his property that he wants his money back for. It would be like buying a $400 dollar ipad and it breaking its the same thing. just another piece of property that i hope you would want to get back no matter what it was for. money is money. Prick.
 
Okay, so this thread is three pages about some stoner that got hit by a car while carrying his friends bong? Why wasn't his friend carrying it if he treasured it that much, that he is going to make his friend that was hit by a car while carrying it for him pay him back! Overall this just needs to stop, and op should get a job.
 
i havent spent more than $100 a season on ski stuff the last like 6 seasons, and im really bad at skiing
 
The point being, people spend more money then others on certain things, its all objective. You might justify spending $500 on sneakers, while Id never even spend more then $50 since I never wear them. You spend $40 on a tent since you go camping once a year, I spend $400 because I go backpacking often which requires higher end and lighter gear. Some people smoke more often then others and invest in higher end glass. And you claiming a cheap sub $100 tube being just as good as a higher end tube is ridiculous.

There is a massive difference in smoking a $30, china-glass bong with a rubber grommet to glass slide and an american crafted $600 mini beaker. For example, just last week at my friends house my nice expensive oil rig took a 2ft plunge (friend knocked it over) from a coffee table to the tile floor. Its bounced twice and not even a crack on it, you drop any cheap glass from that height and its over.
 
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