"Dan Espen" wrote in message
Letting a car fall off a lift or spraying the seats sounds like
negligence.

Trying to pull a car out of a ditch and damaging it in the process
doesn't.
At least to me.

Exactly. I mentioned before, we don't know the real circumstances, how the
car was sitting, what is was sitting on or against. It really may have been
impossible to pull out and not do any damage. None of us was there so we do
not know.