not gun related, but amusing never-the-less

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Subject: THIS IS THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR





THIS IS THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR



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!



(Stay with me.)



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 lengthy and costly appeal process,

the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid

$15,000 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 fine.



This is a true story and was the First place winner in

the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.



ONLY IN AMERICA!
 
I think a 'check what you are posting against snopes' button in between 'post' and 'preview' would be nifty. ;)
 
dev_null:

Re your response, I clicked on the link you provided and got the following:

The page cannot be displayed
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Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer

also, at the bottom of my screen the following appeared: cannot find server.

Might there be something wrong with your link?
 
Trip 20:

The Click Here link worked.

Heist:

Subsequently to my original effort, the snopes link did work, though a moment ago, when I tried it, I got the above mentioned error message. Funny that.

Anyhow, it does seem that the "Criminal Lawyer" was anothger of those Urban Legends.
 
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