I heard about this story years ago. This lawyer purchased a box of expensive cigars. He felt that they needed to be insured. Somehow he got insurance. Not to long after he contacted the insurance company and put in a claim that his cigars all got burnt up. He actually smoked them. The insurance company settled with the lawyer.

Not to long after the insurance company had him arrested for arson.

Sorry, false.

Been around for decades.

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

^ Man Coop, thanks for ruining a great story...I've been telling that story for years, and now I find out it is not true??

LOL

Kinda like the one where the guy was found dead in the middle of a forrest after a huge fire with nothing on but scuba gear. He was picked up by one of those firefighting helicopter buckets and drop on the fire and burned to death.

Diver

Someone ought to write a REALLY stupid country song about that cigar story.

RE #3

That was a great story too! What is it that MACS always says? "You know, the word gullible isn't in the American language dictionary? Don't believe me? Go see for yourself."

True story: I've only seen one episode of any of the various "CSI" shows. Want to take a guess which one it was? Yup, it was the one where they found a dead guy wearing scuba gear in a burned tree after a forest fire. I couldn't stop laughing at all the technical inaccuracies regarding the gear.

"I couldn’t stop laughing at all the technical inaccuracies regarding the gear."

Engineer?

^

Yes, and have been scuba diving for over 20 years now.

^ I HATE watching TV with guys like Thundergerbil!

^

Me too.

Probably why I don't watch much TV.

Cello on?

4. LMAO