On May 15, 9:16 am, "Allen" wrote:
"chris" wrote in message

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On May 14, 2:10 pm, Ron Natalie wrote:
chris wrote:

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Isn't that what the apartment owner's insurance is for??? I mean, if
the crash was deliberate I could sort of understand it, but it was an
accident, after all..

No, it's what Lidle's liability insurance is for. Why should the
homeowner's insurance be resonsible?

OK, so it's somebody's insurance. That is what I was meaning -
insurance paying out rather than suing someone..

I mean, you gotta realise that every time people overseas like myself
hear Americans talk about suing someone it just reinforces our opinion
of your country?? From how it sounds to us, you gotta be afraid to
walk down the street in the USA lest someone sue your ass for
something :-)

Our neighbours to the south do not seem to be afraid of this.

That's why we have insurance and ACC
(Accident Compensation) where you are barred from suing someone for
your accident and in return the Goverment pays you compensation for
your accident..

OK dokey, even better than welfare!



Our ACC is paid for, among other things, by car and motorbike annual
registration. Which means most of what you pay when you register your
car is ACC, and the sort of people who don't register their cars are
also the sort of people who drive drunk, crash into to you, and cost
ACC a lot of money!!!

We also have a welfare state, unfortunately. Various attempts to
force people to look for work to justify their benefit have failed,
nobody wants to be mean to those poor unfortunate people on the
benefit, so you get generations of people who don't think about
looking for work, much easier to just sit there and claim the benefit.

Oh, and you can tell when you drive around the country, the poorer
towns and suburbs have way more satellite TV dishes than the rest of
us!!!! Guess who is paying for those!!!

P.S. Yes, I have been unemployed, but I got off my fat ass and found
work!!!