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If a bison left the national park and rammed your car, you might fairly believe you were entitled to some compensation. What, seriously? That sounds absurd. A
by marssaxman 10y ago
If a bison left the national park and rammed your car, you might fairly believe you were entitled to some compensation.
What, seriously? That sounds absurd. A bison is a wild animal; why would it ever be reasonable to expect any human or group of humans to take responsibility for its behavior?
- Zak 10y agoThere is a group of humans who will take financial responsibility for damage wild animals cause to cars: car insurance companies. In the US, "comprehensive" car insurance covers most kinds of damage or loss other than crashing the car while driving it, including damage caused by animals. It is usually inexpensive.
- protomyth 10y agoThe auto company will sue the rancher as its his/her problem that livestock got out.
- protomyth 10y agoWell, actually, if a cow hits your car (or your car hits a cow on the road) the rancher is liable. I was applying the same rules to the government. Most bison in the USA are not wild game animals and have to follow the sames rules as any other ranch animal.
- marssaxman 10y agoI actually did hit a cow on the road with my car, once, on a moonless night in the middle of Nevada, ninety miles from nowhere. I lived, my passenger fractured a rib, the jeep recovered, and the cow died; but in the sixteen years since, I can't say it had ever occurred to me that any person other than myself might have any liability for the damage.