Kevin's Watch

Nav wrote:I guess it changes country by country. I wasn't sure if these things are charged in the UK until CJ said not, although I know people who've taken out lamp posts and I don't recall them bitching about the bill.

To be honest, I don't have it in black and white that our government won't charge for accident-inflicted damage to public property, but a combination of knowing several people who've had crashes and working for local councils for years suggests it's all just absorbed as wear and tear.

Private property is, of course, an entirely different matter. Including, I would assume, property privately owned by the government, rather than public property that's merely administered, run, maintained (and in all other ways effectively owned) by the government.