This has been presented as an actual story from the Legal Times that happened last summer iirc but I think it may an urban legend
A lawyer purchased himself a 24 box of fancy, super expensive,rare cigars.Since they are so valuable,he insures them against a variety of mishaps and what not.
A few months later he files an insurance claim in which he claims the cigars were lost in a series of small fires.He is so smart this guy.The insurance company tells him to go fly a kite as they know he smoked them in a normal fashion.
He sues and wins!The judge cities some fine print in the policy where the type of fire is not clearly spelled out.He has insured against fire but nothing in the policy says anything about how a fire or what kind of fire occured.
Within 24 hours the insurance company has him arrested on 24 counts of arson.With his own testimony from the civil case he is easily convicted and sentenced to 24 one year terms 😀
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Originally posted by Boby Fisher
everyone of us at least once have behaved like a stupid person, i guess could be things have happen to us, friends relatives and so on.
a "spastic" is a deorgatory term for a mentally handicapped person in the UK, being stupid and actually being mentally handicapped are very different things.
Andrew
Originally posted by latex bishopam I wrong is saying that being "retarded" is also to be mentally handicaped? If so, you might reconcider it's use to mean someone who does something silly too.
a "spastic" is a deorgatory term for a mentally handicapped person in the UK, being stupid and actually being mentally handicapped are very different things.
Andrew
A quick one - while using a friends video camera Simon noticed there were little bobbles on the control buttons (play, record etc), and asked if they were so a blind person coud use it. (think about it).
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Originally posted by belgianfreakI found some definitions of dictionary.co.uk :
am I wrong is saying that being "retarded" is also to be mentally handicaped? If so, you might reconcider it's use to mean someone who does something silly too.
A quick one - while using a friends video camera Simon noticed t ...[text shortened]... sked if they were so a blind person coud use it. (think about it).
Spastic:
spastic adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy" 2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child" 3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: {convulsive}, {spasmodic}] n : a person suffering from spastic paralysis
Retardation:
retardation n 1: a decrease in speed [syn: {deceleration}, {slowing}] [ant: {acceleration}] 2: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: {mental retardation}, {backwardness}, {slowness}, {subnormality}] 3: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: {slowdown}, {lag}]
Andrew