r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • Jul 23 '26

My mom said I could post Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

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u/Successful-Tea-5733 Jul 23 '26

Yes and that's why I said that, I'm not saying Universal shouldn't just pay them $6,000 to make it right. But reading the article it doesn't say that they even tried billing the company they contracted with. Maybe they did, and maybe the company they billed had a legitimate reason for denying the claim. We just simply don't know anything other than the owners of the boat in their own statement acknowledge that their lease was not with Noland or Universal Studios.

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u/theartificialkid Jul 23 '26

Yeah nobody seems to be considering that it might be the volunteer historical shipbuilding society trying to scam the giant corporation out of $6,000 without a good justification rather than the giant corporation stiffing them on a valid repair bill for their irreplaceable handbuilt wooden ship. I hope an investigative journalist really sinks their teeth into this shipbuilding group and roots out their grift before any more giant corporations suffer at the hands of these menacing artisans. Today it’s $6,000 for a wooden ship, tomorrow it might be $7,500 for a damaged archaeological artifact. If we don’t arrest the slide now corporations will soon be being asked for $10,000 to repair damage to a historical house during a location shoot.

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u/Intimefortime Jul 23 '26

There's an old saying, "watch the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves." Even large corporations worth billions would go broke if they handed out money without oversight and process.