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Old 25th September 2003, 09:18 AM
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Wink Absolutely Best Lawyer Story Ever !!!

This is the best lawyer story of the year, decade and probably the century.

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!!!

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 the lawyer $15,000.00 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 $24,000.00 fine!!!

This is a true story and was the 1st place winner in the recent
Criminal Lawyers Award Contest!

ONLY IN AMERICA!!!

NO WONDER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES THINK WE'RE NUTS!!!

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Old 25th September 2003, 09:40 AM
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There are only two lawyer jokes.......
The rest are true
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Old 25th September 2003, 10:37 AM
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That was pretty smart of the insurance co. The lawyer was out lawyered! I love it!
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Old 25th September 2003, 11:29 AM
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Cool story yeah.. but not true like claimed..

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

Snopes tells truth again
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Old 25th September 2003, 11:48 AM
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Rats.
I posted that exactly as I received it.
Some day I may learn to check this stuff, and edit it accordingly.

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Old 25th September 2003, 02:03 PM
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Rats.
I posted that exactly as I received it.
Some day I may learn to check this stuff, and edit it accordingly.

Yeah but it's still funny..........What do you have when a lawyer is buried up to his/her neck???? Not enough sand!!!
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Old 26th September 2003, 03:43 AM
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OK, so it's not true. It is still very funny. Thanks, Sharm.
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Old 26th September 2003, 05:29 AM
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Even if it isn't true,,,,,Most of what you hear about lawyers greed is! I once worked in a lawfirm with 57 of them and to this day I don'thave words to describe those guys..........AND the WOMEN
attorneys were worse!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 26th September 2003, 06:15 AM
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Thanks Sharm

I was laughing so hard I almost pee'd myself
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Old 26th September 2003, 11:40 AM
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Talk about being 'outlawyered'... I wonder if the judge put the insurance company up to it after considering the facts before him. Win the battle but lose the war!

Still cruisin after all these years...

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