On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
That would be to stop people like the film crew we heard of who borrowed something, deliberately destroyed it as part of a scene, and them calmly paid the lender the assessed value. If they're looking at having to pay a _ton_ of money if they pull that stunt, they're less likely to.
You are assuming that there will be somebody ON SET from accounting to point out the cost.