Damage and Restitution

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Earlier today I was backing out of a parking space in a company parking lot (not mine) and bumped the curb, leaving a black tire mark. What would be an appropriate form of restitution? To my knowledge, those marks do not wash off, and since the entire curb was unpainted, they can’t just paint over it.
 
Nothing at all. It is expected that curbs are going to get tire marks on them.

Now, if you’d left a fender-mark on the side of the building, that would have been another story :bigyikes:
 
You have not damaged anything within the understanding of damage. It is presumed by all with any common sense that curbs will get tire marks: if you pulled up to a brand new home and parked on the street, and your tires left a mark on the new homeowners’ curb they might be upset - new homeowners sometimes act a bit irrationally when they get the first mortgage payment - but they are the exception to anyone taking offense. Curbs are normally made to withstand the impact of tires repeatedly bumping them. If they do not withstand the impact (and assuming your impact was within a normal range - you weren’t dragging someone through the lot of the last spot) and suffer some breakage, that is still not your fault and you would not owe restitution, as the fault would lie with the contractor who did not build the curb to specifications. Either he ordered the wrong batch of concrete - his fault - or he was given the wrong batch - the fault of the supplier. In neither instance would you owe any restitution.
 
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Earlier today I was backing out of a parking space in a company parking lot (not mine) and bumped the curb, leaving a black tire mark. What would be an appropriate form of restitution? To my knowledge, those marks do not wash off, and since the entire curb was unpainted, they can’t just paint over it.
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Paint over the thought in your memory and move on.
 
Catholic said:
Earlier today I was backing out of a parking space in a company parking lot (not mine) and bumped the curb, leaving a black tire mark. What would be an appropriate form of restitution? To my knowledge, those marks do not wash off, and since the entire curb was unpainted, they can’t just paint over it.
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Are you serious???
 
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