I wonder if this is what my brother's lawyer argued to when he was charged with assaulting a police officer. Brother rear ended a cop car (not hard enough to damage it) while the cop wasn't in it, cop flips out, pulls my brother out of his truck, brother lays him out and gets arrested. No charges were ever filed or damages for repair were sent to the insurance company. Just spent the better part of a day in a holding cell.
The family did ask my brother to go to anger management classes after that though.....