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So a few weekends back one of my friends fell through a plate glass window. Now, they want to charge him $3500 bones to repair the window. Fortunantely, when the cops came, he had no form of identification on his person. He was able to provide his name and phone number, but there was no proof that he was who he said he was. So, should he pay or contest the fine? $3500 for a plate glass window? Give me a break. Maybe $600.00.
 
Windows are actually ridiculously expensive.

My brother just bought a house, and he was talking to someone about getting all the windows replaced, and he said it would cost like 10k.

It's installing them that is the most expensive part.
 
As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top.
 
Especially full sized windows that you can accidentally fall through. Bitches be expensive.

And wtf does not having his ID have to do with anything. The ****ing police have his name and phone number, so its not like you're going to be able to sneak out of this. Unless you gave them a false name and number then you're stuck with the consequences. And if you did give them a false name and number, then your friend's probably going to arrested when they catch him.

So tell him to pay up and not fall through any more windows like an idiot.
 
They could bring in the cops who questioned him, and they can testify that it was him. I think.
 
Also, they can call his phone when they're talking to him and it will ring...
 
Where did this happen? The reason I ask is because I would think you can actually counter-sue the business for having plate glass that is unsafe and ... well there's all kinds of directions you can go with that. Personal injury, fear for your life, the emotional trauma of falling to what you felt was your imminent death, the glass your friend found in his vagina soon thereafter, etc.
 
So, your friend did not get injured?
Damn. You could have scored some cash.

If I assume this is a commercial building he fell through.
 
Where is Angrylawyer when you need him? i miss that guy
 
The business should have insurance on the building. They're assholes for making someone pay for all of it if it was indeed an accident. Now if it was an act of vandalism, that's another story.
 
Tbh, you need to give more details on this. Where and how exactly did it happen? If the guy was drunk and deliberately charged into the window? Was he hit or did he hit someone through the glass in a fight? Did he slip on something? Was he in a vehicle?

Without the full facts I can't really give you any advice. If it's a business then they should be able to claim on their insurance, but if there is a case of liability then they could well pursue your friend for damages, but without the full facts of what happened exactly I couldn't really say.
 
Is this a business or someone's house that was ruined? TBH at the moment it sounds like your friend is totally at fault, though as Atomic said they should have insurance for this sort of thing (though not everyone does would you believe?). And yeah, installing windows is really ****ing expensive.

I would have no respect for anyone who, as suggested earlier, counter sued because BOO HOO THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE PUT A WINDOW SOMEPLACE WHERE I COULD FALL NEAR. THE BUILDING SHOULD BE MADE OF FOAM.

Edit: Talk about lawyers and especially sueing people really pisses me off.
 
Sue them for putting a business where your friend was planning on jumping through a window.
 
Kadayi said:
Tbh, you need to give more details on this. Where and how exactly did it happen? If the guy was drunk and deliberately charged into the window? Was he hit or did he hit someone through the glass in a fight? Did he slip on something? Was he in a vehicle?

Without the full facts I can't really give you any advice. If it's a business then they should be able to claim on their insurance, but if there is a case of liability then they could well pursue your friend for damages, but without the full facts of what happened exactly I couldn't really say.
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It happened when he tripped backward into a curb. He was intoxicated and it said that in the police report. In this case, the insurance company paid $3000 on the claim and now they want him to pay. There was nothing deliberate about it.
 
you should have killed your friend...then they'd have no one to sue!
 
VirusType2 said:
Where did this happen? The reason I ask is because I would think you can actually counter-sue the business for having plate glass that is unsafe and ... well there's all kinds of directions you can go with that.
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I raged.
 
If he ends up paying for the window tell him to break it a second time, in the same manner.
Double jeopary, they can't make him pay a second time.
 
Well if your friend is intoxicated, I think it's better to pay up. There is a chain of causation here, I think. i.e. your friend getting drunk and crashing through the window. it might not be a criminal act, but it could be negligence.

also you have to look at whether the damage is foreseeable. In this case was it foreseeable whether your friend would break the window in question. Also proximity, that is when committing a negligent act, you should have consideration for those around you who might be affected by your actions.

let's hope it doesn't end in criminal proceedings. Although it might be construed as a negligent act. But I think your friend being intoxicated means the standard of the 'reasonable person' is lowered.
 
In this case the glass was a hazard in that it wouldn't sustain someone falling into it. Aren't there some ISO standards for certain glass thickness? Cause this glass is no way up to code in terms of stuff falling into it.
 
That's what I'm saying. I would expect a business window on the street would be able to withstand an impact like that. I mean, they are some tough shit. Your friend has an unusually large head?
 
People smash in windows with bricks. Is your friend heavier than a brick? If not, then I think you've got a case there!
 
You crazy that shit is like bulletproof.

no, but it's like an inch thick tempered plate glass...
 
Krynn72 said:
People smash in windows with bricks. Is your friend heavier than a brick? If not, then I think you've got a case there!
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Usually the bricks that break glass windows are thrown, sometimes from moving vehicles.

Was your friend thrown from a moving vehicle?
 
Has your friend been affiliated with any glass-hate groups?
 
TheDude said:
It happened when he tripped backward into a curb. He was intoxicated and it said that in the police report. In this case, the insurance company paid $3000 on the claim and now they want him to pay. There was nothing deliberate about it.
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This isn't legal advice, just moral outrage, but if the insurance company already paid up WTF are they doing asking for money?
 
I guess, I did see that Apple store robbery, where the men grabbed nearly every ****ing thing in there. Brick through the window, gun in the jacket.

(in the video dump a few weeks ago)
 
Sounds like you could use the services of the lawyer Garry Hoy.

Can't believe nobody mentioned him yet.
 
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