On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:28:04PM -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Thursday 24 October 2002 13:28, Curtis Rey wrote:
stated that the law was a scam to force people to buy car insurance and boost profits for them
That's not a scam. That is forcing people to be responsible.
No one has the right to smash someone else's car to bits, then say, "good luck coming up with all those thousands to get your car fixed, I don't care enough about my fellow citizens to carry insurance."
Coming from Denmark, where insurance is mandatory to get a car registered, I was amazed to learn that that's not the case in the US... The way I found out was on my first trip to the states, when I needed to get this car registered, and they asked me at the insurance office whether I wanted to buy insurance against someone uninsured crashing into me... I was completely baffled as to what she meant... something like "you mean to tell me that insurance is *OPTIONAL* ????!!!". IMHO, you guys are crazy. Not wanting to potentially end up in hospital and having to pay for treatment, not to mention having my car wrecked and having to pay for that myself as well, I bought the extra insurance. Jon Clausen