Ira Stoll on Fixing a Broken Window

Some knucklehead threw a brick
through Ira Stoll’s car window the other night while the vehicle
was parked on the street in Washington, D.C. But this isn’t a
column about how criminals are knuckleheads or about how the D.C.
government is foolish to require out-of-town visitors to leave
valuable bait for criminals on display overnight behind glass
windshields, Instead, Stoll stops to marvel at the modern
technology and free market competition that combined to get the car
fixed, curbside, in less than three hours from when the police left
the scene—and on a holiday weekend, no less.

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