This has got to be one of the rarest Fuente cigars ever made ...

... it has four wrappers, and is called the 'Freak of Nature' ...

Slim,Is this yours or just a pic? X

Slim -

- is that from one of the sets that he had made up to pass out to family & friends only? Very interesting leaf .... never seen them before ... maybe they only passed them out in San Francisco ....

I think those are the kind you can wear and go simming.

swimming. never mind.

That was hilarious, eleltea ...

No xibbumbero and jimmy ... unfortunately, it is not mine. It is a photo of one of those 'special' one-of-a-kind Opus X that was only passed out to a few selected people at one of the CF functions that Carlito attended.

This one is owned by someone who frequents the CF forums.

Very interesting. I looks like something rare & special.

Mag

Very rare and special indeed--only if you smoke it. Otherwise, it was a waste of good tobacco. Just MHO. If Carlito passed one to me at one of those function, it would get cut, toasted and smoked right then with a fine fine glass of XO cognac.

Oh ... I don't know about that ... LOL!

Once you smoke it ... it's gone. Not saying that it shouldn't be smoked, and enjoyed, but as in all collectables ... once it's gone, it's gone!

The person who got this said he was very lucky. A CF'er who needed $$$ was getting rid of his specials sold it to him. He told me it was very pricey, but he wanted to keep it 'in the family'.

Seems to me like a good investment ... as there will always be collectors willing to pay big bucks for these type of cigars.

Your right again Slim...I guess if I didn't smoke it; I'd auction it and buy other premiums with it. Just can't see holding a cigar just to look at it and run the risk with the humidification or temp and the wrapper get a crack in it or worse holes! I'm sure people who collect these have temp/humidity controlled humidors. Just too risky it seems and I doubt you can insure cigars can you?

ROTFLMAO!!!

... that reminds me of an 'urban legend' I heard not too long ago ... 😉

Yeah Slim I remember. Something about a person insuring the cigars then saying his house burned down or something. Backfired on him big time! Definitely an urban legend.

jd1 --- almost ... this is the urban legend:

A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a box of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against (get this) fire! Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars, and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company.

In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion.

The man sued -- and won! In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that the cigars would be insured against fire, without defining what it considered to be unacceptable fire, it was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss.

Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company grudgingly accepted the judge’s ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in the fires.

After the man cashed his check, however, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 consecutive one-year terms.

I had read that one too. I believe it.

From Snopes.com..................

Claim: A cigar aficionado insures his stogies against fire, then tries to collect from his insurance company after he smokes them.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1997]


A cigar smoker bought several hundred expensive stogies and had them insured against fire. After he'd smoked them all, he filed a claim, pointing out that the cigars had been destroyed by fire. The company refused to pay, and the man sued. A judge ruled that because the insurance company had agreed to insure against fire, it was legally responsible. So the company paid the claim. And when the man accepted the money, the company had him arrested for arson.



Origins: This legend began its Internet life after it was posted to the newsgroup alt.smokers.cigars in early 1996, and it has continued to circulate as a "true story" in newsgroups and e-mail ever since, despite its having been identified as an "urban
legend" when it was first posted. The version posted was, in fact, nearly identical to one that has been circulating since at least the mid-1960s:


A man bought several boxes of cigars and had them insured against fire. When he had smoked them, he put in a claim against the insurance company that they had been destroyed by fire.
The company refused to pay, and the man sued. The judge ruled that the company had given the man a policy protecting against fire, and must pay.

As soon as the man accepted the money, the company had him arrested on a charge of arson.

Another anecdote from the same 1965 volume suggests this legend stems from a joke whose basic premise has been used in a few different ways:

"He's the kind of accountant you've got to admire. Last year he deducted eighty cartons of
cigarettes from my income tax. Called it loss by fire!"

Insurance policies are generally written so that deliberate actions on the part of the policyholders cannot trigger payouts. Furthermore, destroying your own property isn't arson, as long as the act isn't intended to defraud anyone. If a court had already ruled that the insurance company was required to pay, then obviously no fraud was committed, and thus the burning could not be considered arson.

The structure of this legend -- a person's exploiting a regulation for personal gain, then being punished under an unforeseen aspect of that regulation.

I love snopes.com, it comes in handy when over-zeolous secretaries are gathering signitures to stop the production of "bonsai kittens"

^

I guess the day the Padron family start doing these kinds of things,is the day i stop buying them to smoke.


THANK Padron for not selling out!!!

"I guess the day the Padron family start doing these kinds of things,is the day i stop buying them to smoke.


THANK Padron for not selling out!!! "

And just how hasn't Padron sold out? You don't think they take advantage of marketing as well?

Here you are, Chip. Thought you were workin'!?
Nice seeing you!! LOL