I've played all of them, a fire started accidentally in a car park has absolutely nothing to do with GTA or gaming in general.
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I've played all of them, a fire started accidentally in a car park has absolutely nothing to do with GTA or gaming in general.
As I said its an achievement in more than one of those series to destroy multiple cars by chain reaction - I suspect its an accident or even if malicious unrelated to GTA but I can see where the OP is coming from.
In I think GTA3 there was a multi story car park just up from where you start where you could do it. (EDIT: It isn't 3 unless it was a mod the car park is largely empty).
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I enjoy the Batman franchise but I've never felt like jumping off buildings and trying to glide onto the head of someone holding a baseball bat. I think the OP has made a very tenuous link if that's what they've intended.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube of people doing daft things inspired by GTA.
But nothing was inspired by GTA, that's what some of us aren't quite getting. A car caught fire, nobody shot at it with a rocket launcher.
Being to literal - when a car is damaged enough in GTA it catches fire and explodes and can spread to nearby vehicles - its been a thing in GTA for awhile - not sure which it started with i.e.
I think people are showing their own ignorance of the game here.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. I've plenty experience of the game, well not GTA V specifically but rather the series and I just don't get how anyone would make the connection between this real life incident and that game specifically.
Perhaps if someone had been reported to have started the whole thing off in some entertaining way then yea but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
So it really is a stretch to try and make any connection between the 2.
My guess is I doubt the OP did either, but it was 02:30 on New Years Eve/Day - I'm guessing there was a touch of alcohol involved and it sounded like a cool thing to post, particularly the last line of the OP
I fear we may all be debating a drunk dudes attempt at looking cool and edgy
I can spam YouTube videos all day (I've already linked to two) - massive bonfires of cars was/is a thing - not so sure about GTA V as I've seen less of it but especially with GTA 4 for awhile there was a spike in it - I can see where the OP is making the connection though I think the rest of their attempt at a point is rather poorly put across.
Spam all the YouTube videos you want, it doesn't make your point any more valid, at least to me. i just don't believe the OP or see the connection with GTA V specifically.
So this was in the news a couple of days ago..
It is only around 10 miles away from me and i have quite a few people that have lost cars in the blaze..
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/fire-liverpool-destroys-hundreds-cars-14098840
Got me thinking, would there be any liability on the car park owners? I assume that all car parks follow the rule of "vehicles and their contents left at their owners risk" but would negligence apply to this? especially with it being a closed pay and display car park?
Not just the loss of cars, but people leave all sorts of stupid crap in their cars.. Passports/Documents/Laptops/Tablets/Kitchen sinks etc.. I imagine the customer only damage would be racking up way over 10-20 million..
It is only around 10 miles away from me and i have quite a few people that have lost cars in the blaze..
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/fire-liverpool-destroys-hundreds-cars-14098840
Got me thinking, would there be any liability on the car park owners? I assume that all car parks follow the rule of "vehicles and their contents left at their owners risk" but would negligence apply to this? especially with it being a closed pay and display car park?
Not just the loss of cars, but people leave all sorts of stupid crap in their cars.. Passports/Documents/Laptops/Tablets/Kitchen sinks etc.. I imagine the customer only damage would be racking up way over 10-20 million..
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I guess any claims would have to go under the car owner's car insurance?
Thats a lot of angry people paying a hell of a lot of money in excess D:
I forsee an insurance spike upcoming.
There's 37.5 million cars registered in the UK. A few hundred destroyed won't even show up as a tiny blip on the radar.
It would show up as a massive blip on the radar when it came to insuring cars from that area in the future.
You might initially think this, but when you realise how much is paid out each day it's a drop in the ocean.
In the Association of British Insurers 2016 key facts report, it states that the average amount claimed per day was £28.6m. If this incident did cost 25m in claims then that would be less than a quarter of one percent of the annual claims!
Couple of days ago? Try last night.
Would be on each owners insurance I expect. Not the car park operators fault that a parked Land Rover caught on fire. Would be on the Land Rover owners insurance if any one person/party was to blame.
Would be on each owners insurance I expect. Not the car park operators fault that a parked Land Rover caught on fire. Would be on the Land Rover owners insurance if any one person/party was to blame.
Bingo. This.
Why tho? That was a one-off event. It doesn't mean that the risk in that area is any higher than any other area. The chance of this happening again in the same place would be incredibly slim, and it doesn't indicate an ongoing risk in that area.
It's not like areas where theft is higher, or some other tangible on-going risk is greater. This is a one-off, unfortunate accident. Why would that push premiums in that area up? Don't understand.