gotta share the blunt

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Cannot vouch for the veracity, but it is funny......

"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 his first premium payment on 
the policy, the lawyer filed a 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 but 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 a 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."

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 he was sentenced to 
24 months in jail and ordered to pay a $24,000 fine.

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