More Musings, A Little "Curiosity".

[hellraiser02]

Ok, boys and girls.

Let's talk about the exciting world of collateral damage.

Punched a hole in a building lately? Smashed up a street full of cars? Burned down a grove of trees with your laserbeams? Flooded half of the damn city, I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU, FISHBOY.Who exactly is accounting for all of this property damage, eh? Any accountability? Any

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[shesnotgoogle]

Is collateral damage a big problem here?

[manlygirlskrull]

Surely it is to be expected in a city full of mutants and the like; many do not even know what their powers are, let alone how to safely use them.

[shesnotgoogle]

Oh. Well I've only been here a few days so I wasn't sure.

[manlygirlskrull]

I see.

Sometimes it is diffcult to handle "supervillains" and not take down a building in the process.

[static_hawk]

I never have any.

It's messy.

And the last bust-up I was even remotely near we put it all back the way we found it.

[hellraiser02]

Well at least someone cleans up after themselves.

[static_hawk]

Tch.

It would be completely outside my particular idiom to leave any messes behind.

[hellraiser02]

Ah? Your idiom, huh?

[manlygirlskrull]

I have caused some damage, yes, but I believe it was worth it, considering it lead to Carnage's initial defeat.

[hellraiser02]

What kind of damage?

Did you talk to the civilians whose property was damaged? See if they needed any help? Or if they could get any assistance at all?

You know, that's usually the job of police and fire rescue, I would think, but they sorta- you know- vanished.

[manlygirlskrull]

I ensured that they were safe, but beyond that I had no means of compensating them.

Given the choice between Carnage continuing its massacre and damage being dealt to easily replaced buildings, lampposts, sidewalks, and the like, I am certain that nobody would be all that concerned about the state of public property.

[xf_shatterstar]

I am going to have to agree with this. There are priorities.

[fuckaquaman]

Fourteen Billion. Or thereabouts.

[hellraiser02]

And do you plan on covering any of it, lil mermaid? Have you?

[fuckaquaman]

When your people, surface-dweller, put a stop to illegal drilling, whaling, fish trawling, toxic waste dumping, and, oh yes, Global Warming, we'll start talking about reparations for the damages I've caused.

[hellraiser02]

Oh, so sorry, your highness.

My people stopped those kinds of practices over 200 years ago.

[hellraiser02]

Which is good, I suppose, since anyone of the supers could get the pants sued offa them for causing damage to homes and property. Not to mention bodily harm, right?

It's amazing no one has yet.

[hellraiser02]

That's good... At least the judiciary system didn't vanish, too, huh?