To make DH pay for accident out of his own money and not claim off insurance?

[RunLikeTheDevil]

DH has been on and on about buying a sat-nav for months. So yesterday he finally got one and set it up to go to Tesco (where we go nearly every day so clearly know our way ) and his mothers (which again, we know the route off by heart but this stupid fecking thing was barking out instructions all the way there).

This morning he wanted to 'test' it on a route he didn't know so he put in a postcode for some castle place and insisted I go with him to "see how it works".

So we went, DH is blindly following this things instructions in favour of taking notice of sign posts etc and all of a sudden he makes a sharp turn (like the sat nav instructed) and goes smack into a wooden fence. I COULD SEE THE BLOODY FENCE before he turned. I can't understand how he didn't, he can't have been paying attention.

I shouted at him and told him we'd have to pay for the fence. At the same time the sat nav tells him to carry on the way he's going so he drives through the fucking fence and starts driving across the field, all the time concentrating on the sat-nav which insisted we were on some country road.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, we're obviously home now and he wants to claim the damage on the insurance. I think HE should pay for it, the premiums are high enough.

AIBU?

What a load of b*llocks.

Is this for real?

is he related to this guy?

really?

why did you not tell him to stop before he hit the fence anyway. if you saw it first?

That made me laugh, but can't believe your dh would be that stupid to drive into a fence?

your dh is clearly a fuckwit of the highest order

a sat nav isn't a replacement for road and common sence - fucking loon

Words fail me.

Hold on, no they don't: Ask insurance company if they can cough up for working brain for DH.

ha ha ha

You had me, up till the point of him driving across a field.

Did it tell him to go over any bridges, or just to park up under one?

Good try!

Sorry, the caveat was better.

maybe he'd been drinking the caveat

only 5/10

I was hooked until the driving across the field.

Into a fence was too much for me. Into someone's driveway, yes, but you don't just turn blindly when it says, you turn at the next thing that looks like a road.

haha, it could happen

DH drove down bloody oxford street (buses and taxi's only) because sat nav 'told him to'
It's quite incredible how obedient they become to them, he never listens to me quite so intently

I'm seriousy considering sticking one on the kitchen window and playing a cd with phrases like
'turn left at the fridge and get the mop, then at the next sink fill and use'

'feed dw grapes and massage her feet. You will then have reached your destination'

Oh yes, I can definately see that working

trip trap.............what a load of codswallop!!

1/10

My dad was once driving me to ours in North London and I told him to take the next left which was the road that leads onto ours, but sat nav told him otherwise, and kept telling him otherwise, we were driving for about half an hour extra because of the one way systems etc.