Re: FRI: Lawyers. Gotta luv'em!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Aug 23 19:09:37 2005
About snopes.com ...
While the Internet has taken its share of knocks for helping scammers
perpetrate e-mail and Web hoaxes (the Bambi hunt reportedly was staged
to sell videos on the proprietor's Web site), not enough credit is given
to the folks who are using the Internet to debunk them. Snopes.com is
the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson,
who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995. The
site is an encyclopedia of past hoaxes and myths, from classic e-mails
purportedly from Bill Gates offering money for forwarding e-mail to
friends, to recent reports of terrorists buying up UPS uniforms.
The Mikkelsons, who live in the Southern California suburb of Thousand
Oaks, support themselves via David's full-time programming job, and use
ad money from the site to pay for bandwidth and related costs. They
received an inundation of traffic right after 9/11 due to a plethora of
terror-related hoaxes and misinformation. They've appeared on CNN and
various TV shows, but remain relatively low key and out of the
spotlight, despite pop culture interest in their subject matter.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1059692646.php
art
At Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
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>Snopes.com might owned by a lawyer- watch out..
>
>Ef.
>
>At Tue, 23 Aug 2005, doctorjoe@aol.com wrote:
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>>Cool. I'll pass that on to the "source," a law student (obviously, a future "liar").
>>
>>Joe P.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Anna Meenan, MD <annam@uic.edu>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
>>Sent: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:03:08 -0500
>>Subject: Re: FRI: Lawyers. Gotta luv'em!
>>
>>They gotcha, Joe.
>>
>>http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp
>>
>>--
>> Anna Meenan, MD
>>
>>At Tue, 23 Aug 2005, doctorjoe@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>> THE BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE, AND PROBABLY THE
>>> CENTURY.
>>>
>>> A Woodlands, TX. Lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars,
>>> and 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! (Stay with me.)
>>>
>>> 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 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".
>>>
>>> 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 fine.
>>>
>>> This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal
>>> Lawyers Award Contest.
>>>
>>>Joe P.
>>
>--
>"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the
>small ones."
>
> - Phillip Brooks
>
> ~walt whitman~
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
Lawrence Peter Berra
