Phoenix,
that is
TOO much!
(a bunch I collected- probably repeats, but maybe someone will get a chuckle)
The Little Girl's Fire Truck
A fire fighter is working outside the station when he noticed a little girl in a little red wagon wearing a fire fighter's helmet. The wagon has little ladders on the sides and a garden hose coiled in the middle. The wagon is being pulled by her dog and her cat.
"That sure is a nice fire truck," the fire fighter said with admiration.
"Thanks," the girl said.
The fire fighter took a closer look and noticed the girl has tied the wagon to her dog's collar and to her cat's testicles.
"Little Partner," the fire fighter said, "I don't want to tell you how to run your rig, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat's collar, I think you could go faster."
The little girl replied thoughtfully, "You're probably right, but then I wouldn't have a siren."
A busload of politicians were driving down a country road, when suddenly the bus ran off the road and crashed into an old farmer's barn.
The old farmer got off his tractor and went to investigate. Soon he dug a hole and buried the politicians. A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.
The old farmer told him he had buried them.
The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Lordy, were they ALL dead?"
The old farmer said, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them crooked politicians lie.
An old man decided his old wife was getting hard of hearing. He called
her doctor to make an appointment to have
her hearing checked. The Doctor
said he could see her in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple,
informal test the
husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the
dimensions of the problem. "Here's what you do. Start about 40 feet
away
from her, and speak in a normal conversational tone and see if she hears
you. If not, go to 30 feet, 20 feet, and
so on until you get a response."
So that evening she's in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he's in the
living
room, and he says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away . . . let's
see
what happens." "Honey, what's for supper?" No
response. So he moves to
the other end of the room, about 30 feet away. "Honey, what's for
supper?" No
response.
So he moves into the dining room, about 20 feet away. "Honey, what's for
supper?" No
response.
On to the kitchen door, ten feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?"
STILL no response.
So he
walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for supper?"
"For the fifth time, CHICKEN!"
A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against ..."Get this" ...
fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars and having yet to make a single premium payment
on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars
in "a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the
cigars in a normal fashion.
The man sued... .. AND WON
In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since
the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable, and also guaranteed that it
would insure the cigars against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," it was obligated to
compensate the insured for his loss. Rather than
endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company
accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires."
BUT WHAT COMES
AROUND...
After the man cashed his check, however, the insurance company had him arrested ... On 24 counts of arson!!
With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted
of intentionally burning the rare cigars. He was sentenced to 24 consecutive one year terms!!
I suppose there's
justice in there somewhere...This is a true story from the "Legal Times".