Originally Posted by humancongereel
no, and i'm on the fence as to whether that was the right call...my decision not to call the cops had to do with... wanting to just check my frame, wheels, bars, cranks, limbs, and head (for blood) and get out of there to get back to work...also a lot to do with not wanting to bring cops and the law into it. i don't really like cops, don't want to deal with them and red tape, etc., not to mention a certain extent to which i suscribe to anarchism and don't want to be a hypocrite...i'm hoping if there are future problems (and i suspect there won't be) i can work them out without having to appeal to any "authority".
there are definitely ways to leverage what happens while minimizing the use of the police and whatnot. you can file an accident, which is nothing more than an official record of the event. you can use this to work some street justice - "hey, i'm okay, and i don't want to raise your insurance rates, so why don't you just cover repairs/replacements and we'll call it a deal." the accident report ensures that should they decide to try to screw you, you've got recourse.
it's sort of like voting - you work toward the best possible scenario with the tools given you, both w/i and w/o the paradigm.