Drum Roll Please
(28.07.2003 - 11:55 p.m.)

A group of three surgeons are sitting around, between patients, in the opertaing theatre. The conversation turns to who each surgeon would like to have the opportunity to operate on.

"I would like to operate on a mathematician," surgeon no.1 pipes up, "because each organ and body part would be numbered, and it would be easy to find everything."

"I would like to an operate on an electrician," surgeon no.2 joins in, "because each tube and tissue would be colour coded, so I would know exactly which parts to connect."

They both turn to surgeon no.3, who is sitting in deep thought, his brow furrowed in contemplation. Eventually he turns to them.

"I'd like to operate on a politician," he says, "because they don't have a brain or a heart, and their mouths and arses are interchangable."

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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 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. 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 $15,000.00 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."

IT'S NOT THE END YET... 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.

I swear, the law is an ass. And the phrase "Only in America" has never seemed more apt.

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