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From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Car Insurance
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Date: Thu, 6-Oct-83 22:56:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  6 22:56:42 1983
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Well, this is surely a safe item to flame about--I doubt that there is anyone
who will disagree that auto insurance is useless.  Yes, I said it, and I
mean it.  I live in Chicago; I am 30 (or will be in a month), haven't had a
fender-bender for 5 years, nor a ticket for 6 or 7; and my insurance has finally
gone *down* to about $800/yr.  BUT...if you're like me...I'd rather pay the
repair bills for an accident, than report it to my company.  It's certain
death to your insurance policy to get a fender-bender, and, say, a 10 MPH
ticket.

Insurance?  When you're afraid to use it?  *I* think it's legalized extortion;
what else can you call it when I pay just short of a grand a year to keep
my license, yet am afraid--for good reason!--to use the so-called benefits of
my policy?  (Of course, it could be argued that my fear of losing my insurance
is what's kept me so cautious...*hmph!*)

What's worse, my insurance agent told me a few weeks ago that, with Chicago
being a main entry point for undocumented aliens, the odds are 2 or 3 to one--
according to his insurance company accident statistics--that if someone hits
me, they'll be uninsured, without a license, and an undocumented alien.  So,
I pay the whole thing....

					I wish I could walk to Naperville,

					Dave Ihnat
					ihuxx!ignatz