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發表於 2013-6-21 16:24:19
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Analysis: This story is decades old and likely originated as a joke. A much briefer version appeared in a 1965 toastmaster's manual and was apparently the direct inspiration of the earliest Internet variant, posted in a Usenet discussion in February 1996:
A cigar smoker bought several hundred expensive stogies and had them insured against fire. After he'd smoked them all, he filed a claim, pointing out that the cigars had been destroyed by fire. The company refused to pay, and the man sued. A judge ruled that because the insurance company had agreed to insure against fire, it was legally responsible. So the company paid the claim. And when the man accepted the money, the company had him arrested for arson.
We find the tale set in North Carolina for the first time in this Usenet version dated February 1997:
Something heard on the radio:
A North Carolina man, having bought several expensive cigars, insured them against... get this... fire. After he had smoked them, he then decided that he had a claim against the insurance company and filed. The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigar normally. The man sued. The judge stated that since the company had insured the cigars against fire, they were obligated to pay. After the man accepted payment for his claim, the company then had him arrested for... arson.
As it traveled the email circuit the story grew longer and more detailed, and by the time 1997 was out the latter-day version set in Charlotte, NC had become standard. David Boraks, a reporter for the Charlotte Observer, tried vainly to authenticate it. "Somewhat sheepishly," he wrote, "I've tried to verify the cigar story. But searches of court records and newspaper files fail to turn up a single case or N.C. news article matching the incident." Not that anyone should be surprised.
A new variant claiming the scheming cigar aficionado was himself a lawyer began circulating in mid-2002 (see above).
紅色的文字係話
有一位Charlotte Observer的記者, 翻查有關的法庭紀錄及報紙
搵唔到有相似的事件
其實以前都有唔少這類笑話
例如
一個女士告超巿容許細路係超巿裡面跑, 撞親佢, 要求賠償, 但個細路原來係佢個仔
一個車主對手離開軚盤後撞車後告間車廠, 話佢說明書無話對手要揸軚
以前這裡有個帖係介紹一個法律笑話網站
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