Smash a Car, Replace it

I used to watch a lot of those TV judge shows before I got sick of them and I repeatedly saw that if you have an old car that is in good condition and some careless idiot smashes it all to hell, they don't owe you a new or used car in the same working order, they owe you whatever some stupid book says it's worth. If it's $200, that's what you get. It doesn't matter that you can't buy a used car that is in the same condition your car was in with that small amount of money. It doesn't matter if your car had a new paint job and 20 years left before it went off to the great parking lot in the sky. All that matters are numbers in a book. Justice isn't blind, it's decapitated.

If someone smashes your car and it's proven that it's their fault, they should have to buy you a car that is similar to how your car was before they destroyed it.


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