The “you break it, you buy/pay for it” rule may be true for you and me, but not for the U.S. government. Remember the much talked about case of the FBI agent that crashed a rare $750,000 Ferrari F50, which had been stored in a government impound lot, after he took it for a joyride in February of 2009?
Well, the owner of the vehicle, Michigan-based Motors Insurance, which brought the F50 from the dealer it was stolen from, eventually filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government.
The company demanded to be reimbursed for the full value of the car as it assessed that it was a total loss after the crash. However, a federal judge in Detroit disagreed and dismissed the lawsuit.
According to media reports, Judge Avern Cohn ruled that while the case was “certainly unfortunate,” he couldn’t do anything because there is a law that grants immunity if property is in the custody of law enforcement!
Story References: Chicago Tribune , Photos courtesy of Wrecked Exotics
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