Originally Posted By: dishdude
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: dishdude
It's a hazard walking through a parking lot with these things sticking out. If I hit my shin on one, it's going through the back window.
So you would vandalize someone's property and be willing to take a criminal charge for it because you weren't paying attention?
If you were walking next to a car, not paying attention, and ran into the mirror, would you break that off too? Maybe throw it through the window? Would you like someone doing that to one of your cars? Maybe if someone runs into your mailbox while jogging, they should yank it off the post and send it through one of the windows in your house?
It's reasonable to expect cars to have mirrors sticking out of them at hip level, and mailboxes to be on the side of the road. It's not reasonable to expect something to be sticking out of a bumper one foot off the ground right where someone would stick their foot out if they wanted to trip you. It's a huge liability on the vehicle owner's part if someone falls and injures themself.
You can bet a Personal Injury attorney would be all over that case if there is a broken bone or anything other than soft tissue injury.
The real liability is walking around without paying attention to where you are going. There are any number of unexpected things you may encounter...watching where you are walking is sort of common sense, I would hope.
Besides, it's not like a ball mount sticks out that far. Anyone walking close enough to run into mine has to be pretty much rubbing up against my truck. To cause any real injury, you'd have to run into it full force. Maybe I'm just used to moving around trucks with hitches or trailers attached, but I haven't even gotten so much as a bruise from a hitch. I have run into them...when not paying attention. It was my fault, I brushed it off, and moved on with life. I have never bumped into the hitch of a truck I wasn't using...ie, someone else's truck in a parking lot. I don't feel a need to be all up on someone else's vehicle.
I do not care what bamberlamps chasers would do, and I'd like to see a case where someone walked into a trailer hitch, sued, and won...if someone carelessly walks into my hitch, they are free to call the police and let them sort it out.
And besides those points, vandalism is just sorry. That's something a [censored] off 13 year old does.