Re: Even when they're right, they're wrong

On 27 Feb 2009 03:02:21 GMT, "John F. Eldredge" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:49:23 +0000, Tai wrote:

I have it documented that it is closer to 98%. I used to be
impressed by that. Now that I've grown older, and stupider, and having
met people on the right side of the curve, all I can say is:

One luser in Massachusetts came close to winning a Darwin Award
yesterday. He was sitting in his rental car, talking on his cell phone.
After the engine quit because the car had run out of gas, he started a
small fire inside the car in order to keep warm. He soon had to

Okay, Manitoba, 10 foot snowdrifts, 40 below...

extinguish the fire because he started getting dizzy from the smoke. He
then walked to a fire station and asked for help, since he had burns and

He *then* was able to walk to a fire station just fine. Gah.

I suspect that the rental company is going to require him to buy the car,
as their insurance probably won't want to pay for deliberately-caused
damage.

Only if they're incompetent -- deliberately caused damage (including
theft, which is a worse gradation..) has to be a significant fraction of
the damage incurred to rental company cars, and you *really* want it to be
the insurance company's business whether they can recover or not.

Jasper
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