lawyers

[HR-Hunter]

I donno if this is true, but it's funny either way.
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A Charlotte, NC, lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire among other things.
Within a month having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first
premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed claim against the insurance company.

In his claim, the lawyer stated 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 normal 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 process,
the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000.00 to the lawyer for his loss of the 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 $24,000.00 fine.

This case was the 1st place winner in
the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.
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~Hunter~

[Brokyn]

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--William
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[HR-Trevor]

http://www.urbanlegends.com/legends/Insuring_Cigars_.html
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato

-- Trevor Rage / Rich Mondy

[HR-Trevor]

This is actually a better one:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp

snopes.com is a great site for looking up things you see to determine if they might be pure myth. Here's another false but funny myth, found on that page as a link:

Here is a true story someone found regarding exams at Cambridge University. It seems that during an examination one day a bright young student popped up and asked the proctor to bring him Cakes and Ale. The following dialog ensued:

Proctor: I beg your pardon?

Student: Sir, I request that you bring me Cakes and Ale.

Proctor: Sorry, no.

Student: Sir, I really must insist. I request and require that you bring me Cakes and Ale.

At this point, the student produced a copy of the four hundred year old Laws of Cambridge, written in Latin and still nominally in effect, and pointed to the section which read (rough translation from the Latin):

"Gentlemen sitting examinations may request and require Cakes and Ale."

Pepsi and hamburgers were judged the modern equivalent, and the student sat there, writing his examination and happily slurping away.

Three weeks later the student was fined five pounds for not wearing a sword to the examination.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato

-- Trevor Rage / Rich Mondy

[winddancer]

I love the Urban Legends site! Everytime my friends send me emails with stories like that, I send them an email back to them with the link.

One of my friends claimed that the site was no less credible than the stories she sent me. And I said, unlike her forwarded emails, the people who maintain the site put up references of where they get THEIR info from, which anyone can follow and use his/herself to verify the facts

YAY FOR SNOPES!

Belethe