I just had to share this ...

This was soooo lame ...

A Charlotte, NC, man having purchased a case of very rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man 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 man sued....and won. In delivering the ruling the judge agreeing that the claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what it 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 the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires." After the man cashed the check, however, the 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 man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.


Oh my god, that is soooooo lame! AHAHAHAHA!
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I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.
Oh... My... GOD!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That is one of the funniest things I have heard in a while!

Great find!

-Cub. =o)
It's like the concept of karma realised in legal loopholes! :shock:
(Ruri_Ayanami from the old Tex Murphy ezboard).
"I don't believe in intuition, don't know why... just a feeling." - Tex Murphy
That is too funny! Both of them got what they deserved.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
Too bad I found this link:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp

But lets keep it stricken from the record for funny's sake. :wink:

-Cub. =o)
It's still to funny!
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
I think the best part of it is that, especially in the Litigious States of America, it could totally happen.
Also the Gigantic Bathroom Reader tells of this story being false. But I could see it as something someone would do.
Travis Jacobs

"You might not sound so idiotic if there were at least something excitable in my post to begin with..." --Baf
You mean to tell me ... IT'S FAKE?!?!?!

I'm gonna horsewhip someone.

But yeah, it's still funny.
I'm not fat ... I'm festively plump.