A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case 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 it would insure the cigars 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 accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires."

*** This is the funny part***

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.

Oh dear ... another one falls for the ol' 'Urban Legend' ...

Slim: This is a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend that knew my second cousin's brother-in-law.

Definitely an urban legend...I seem to remember that this was posted a few months back...Check the archives...Still, good to post for newbies who haven't heard it before

On every major BB I have ever been on and on a couple minor ones ,this is an old but good one....

Reminds me of the two friends that went swimming and one dove in water and shrieked, "There is barbed wire in here..............!!!! Well, the story goes that he was covered with Water Moccassins and bitten about 150 times by a "nest" of snakes. Good urban legend. Charlie

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why don't you top all the threads about cello on/cello off. Sheesh!

pot...

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