I met someone from Norway who was telling me how he backed into a pole and put some dents in his rental car

At college my friend let some other kid take his car for a spin on campus. Ended up reversing it into a pole and putting a deep V shape in the back end, like a foot deep. What's worse was that the car was actually one that his dad used for deliveries for the family restaurant. Oopsy 🤣

In Norway the times i have rented a car, it doesnt matter. The rental company will put you at fault and you will be up for paying damages.
Unless say a car slammed into you and there was a police report and mostly likely the person at fault insurance company would pay for damages.. if that person has insurance anyway..

Without a police report or anything like that, if you bring a rental car back damages, youre at fault for it despite if you claim it was your fault or not

Oh man 😬

No, the American way would be to sue whoever put the pole there in such an obviously dangerous place for cars to back into it, and the rental company for renting a car without auto braking that allowed him to back all the way into the pole. But he probably wouldn’t do that either 🤷‍♂

Honesty pfft whats it ever been good for?

Sounds like you, very.

He should say the pole jumped out at him while backing up.

Sweet naive euros