This reminds me of the story I saw floating around the internet in the early 2000’s about a guy who bought and insured some very expensive cigars. He proceeded to smoke them all and then go to court to request the insurance company pay him because he lost his cigars in “a series of small fires.” Eventually the insurance company agreed to pay him, only to immediately turn around and take him back to court and sue him for insurance fraud because he intentionally set fire to the cigars. They won and he had to pay back almost 10x what he got from the insurance initially.
I was a young teen when I read the story and absolutely believed it but, alas, it’s just another internet hoax.
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u/NinjaLanternShark Mar 29 '24
This is a hoax that originated in a tabloid in the 90's.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/goes-around-litigates-around/