Petite histoire pour ceux qui savent parler l'anglais ou...

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Voili Voilou le genre de conneries que je reçois par mail de la part de mes amis: [merci à eux]
Ah et pour ceux qui savent pas lire l'anglais-->googletraduction
Best Lawyer Story

Maybe the best lawyer story of the year, decade, and probably the century.

A Charlotte, North Carolina 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 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 here.)

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 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.

Only in America! No wonder other countries think we are nuts :-)

Voilà, en espérant qu'elle vous a plu-->ya vraiment des gens sacrément courageux pour faire ce genre de truc. Razz

invité Nombre de messages : 116 Date d'inscription : 03/08/2006

Une lettre à envoyer au ministre du revenu:
Le 25 avril 2002

Cher Monsieur,

J'ai l'honneur d'accuser réception de votre lettre du 12 avril dernier par laquelle, pour la troisième fois, vous me réclamez le remboursement de l'argent que je vous dois. Sachez tout d'abord que je ne conteste pas cette dette et que j'ai l'intention de vous rembourser aussitôt que possible.

Mais d'autre part, je vous signale que j'ai encore beaucoup d'autres créanciers, tous aussi honorables que vous, et que je souhaite rembourser aussi. C'est pourquoi, chaque mois, je mets tous les noms de mes créanciers dans un chapeau et en tire un au hasard que je m'empresse de rembourser.
J'ose espérer que votre nom sortira bientôt.

Entre-temps, je vous prie d'agréer, Monsieur, l'assurance de mes sentiments distingués.

[Signature]

P.S. : Votre dernière lettre étant rédigée de manière fort peu courtoise, j'ai le regret de vous faire savoir que vous ne participerez pas au prochain tirage.

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