The Lawyer

[Greebe]

Talk about justice, this sucker got what he deserved, that's for sure.


A Charlotte, NC lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars then insured them against fire, among other things.

Within a month of having smoked his entire stock pile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first preminium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires".

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the intended fashion.

The lawyer sued... and won!

In delivering the ruling the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire", and was obligated to pay the claim.

Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal, the insurance Company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of rare cigars lost in the "fires".

NOW FOR THE BEST PART....

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.

(This is a true story and was 1st place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest)

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[ZokesPro]

Sucka!

[Gurm]

So what you're saying is that Urban Legends win contests now?

- Gurm

P.S. No offense intended, but I heard this one about 5 years ago... and about a thousand times since.

[Strahd]

Haaaaa. I love that story. True or not.

[Technoid]

Yes, it has been around for a while but It's stilla great Story!

[KeiFront]

LOL never heard that story before

[Dogbert]

Guys, you should really check the Darwin awards...

[Wombat]

This wouldn't qualify for the Darwin awards: nobody died/maimed. Just for the hell of it, I searched, and they don't have it.

[Greebe]

Two people whom I forwarded this link (laughable story) to said it was old and had heard before. But just because they or even yourself have heard it Gurm, doesn't mean the rest of the planet has and or wouldn't enjoy it.

[KeiFront]

True Story From Michigan, USA.
Guy buys a brand new Grand Cherokee for $30,000+, and has $400.00+ in
monthly payments. He's pretty proud of this rig, and gets a hold of his
friend to do some male bonding with the new ride. They go duck hunting
and of course all the lakes are frozen.
These two Atomic Brains go to the lake with their guns, the dog, the
beer and of course the new vehicle. They drive out onto the ice..
Now, they want to make some kind of a natural landing area to attract
ducks - something the decoys will float on. Remember it's all ice, and
in order to make a hole large enough to interest a flock of ducks - a
hole big enough to entice ducks to land, they needed to use a little
more than an ice hole drill . . .
Sooo, out of the back of the brand-new Jeep Grand Cherokee comes a stick

of dynamite with a short 40-Second fuse.
Now to their credit, these two rocket scientists DID take into
consideration that if they placed the stick of dynamite on the ice at a
location far from where they (and the new Grand Cherokee) would be
waiting and ran back quickly, they would risk slipping on the ice as
they ran from the immenent explosion and could possibly go up in smoke
with the resulting blast. After a little deliberation, they come up with

lighting and THROWING the dynamite, which is what they end up doing.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the
beer, the guns AND THE DOG ???? Yes, the dog. The driver's pet Black
Lab(used for retrieving - especially things thrown by the owner).
You guessed it, the dog takes off at a high rate of doggy speed on the
ice, reaching the stick of dynamite with the burning 40 second fuse
about the time it hits the ice - all to the woe of the two idiots which
are now yelling, stomping, waving arms and wondering what the hell to do

now...
The dog is happy and now heads back toward the "hunters" with the stick
of dynamite. I think we all can picture the ever-increasing concern on
the part of the brain trust, as the loyal Labrador Retriever approaches.

The Bozo's now are REALLY waving their arms - yelling even louder and
generally feeling kinda panicked..
Now finally one of the guys decides to think- something that neither had

done before this moment, grabs a shotgun and shoots the dog. This sounds

better than it really is, because the shotgun was loaded with #8 duck
shot and hardly effective enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog DID stop
for a moment, slightly confused, but then continued on. Another shot,
and this time the dog - still standing, became REALLY confused and of
course scared.. Thinking that these two Nobel Prize Winners have gone
TOTALLY INSANE, the pooch takes off to find cover with a now extremely
short fuse still burning on the stick of dynamite.
The cover the dogs finds? Underneath the brand new Grand Cherokee worth
30-some thousand dollars - the $400.00+ monthly payment vehicle that is
sitting nearby on the lake ice.
BOOM !
Dog dies, vehicle sinks to bottom of lake, and these two "Co-Leaders of
the Known Universe" are left standing there with this "I can't EVEN
believe this happened to me" look on their faces.
Later, the owner of the vehicle calls his insurance company and is
promptly informed that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of
explosives is NOT covered on his policy . . . He had yet to make his
first car payment.

[Dogbert]

Wombat,
Of course it isn't part of the Darwin awards, nobody died.
All I ment is - For funny stories like this, look for the drawin awards. There are tons of stupid people who thought they were so smart in there.

[Gurm]

I never said it wasn't funny. Of course it was - and is. What I objected to was the little "This is a true story! It happened in Kenosha Wisconsin! My mother's former gardner's daughter's best friend's college roommate knew a guy who had met this lawyer's brother-in-law!" blurb that I was picking on.

Hey, that Jeep story is funny, except that the insurance necessary on a new car on $400+/mo. payments damn well does cover sinking a car in a lake. Gotta love made-up stories.

- Gurm

[KvHagedorn]

What a couple of ****oles.. serves them right.

[Gurm]

KvH:

It's a FAKE story. They aren't ****oles, because they don't exist.

- Gurm

[impact]

Stop spoiling the fun.