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Luckily, this wasn't an issue - the owner sold the car to collectors for something like 100 times its pre-impact value, and the stone itself for twice that. I t
by azernik 5y ago
Luckily, this wasn't an issue - the owner sold the car to collectors for something like 100 times its pre-impact value, and the stone itself for twice that. I trust she got a nicer car with the money.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI mean being able to sell a damaged car - does that mean you don't get the insurance claim?
- azernik 5y agoProbably but, but at that point any insurance payout would be a rounding error
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI don't know if this is universal, but an insurance won't pay out until a repair has been done and invoiced by a verified garage. I mean I've had some damage early this year, a guy backed up into our car on a parking lot (his back window was misted and he didn't look properly or respond to the horn), after checking in with the insurance we took it to the garage and everything was handled after that.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agook, since never had a car I wasn't sure.
- brk 5y agoNot 100% true, FWIW. I've had scenarios, even recently, where our insurance offered two options: 1) Take it to an approved shop for a full repair 2) They send a check for the estimated repair value to me, and I do whatever I want, which could including pocketing the money and living with the damage. Granted, "living with the damage" would probably not be feasible in a meteor impact scenario, but for lesser damage it can work.
- solarmist 5y agoCan confirm. I've gotten insurance payouts and then not repaired the car because it was cosmetic. Perfectly legal.
- Ma8ee 5y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the 17 year old boy that shortly before the event bought the car for $300 sold it for $25000. I don't think he cried himself to sleep.
- tim333 5y ago17 year old girl https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/06/the-meteorite-that-crashed-into-car.html https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/06/the-meteorite-that-cra...