The Best Law Story....Ever

Ok, yesterday I told you about what has to be the most frivolous lawsuit ever. Today, I am going to share with you my favorite law story. Maybe it's true, maybe it's an urban legend, but the tale is so uproariously funny, that it must be told.
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 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."
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 $24,000.00 fine.
Again, it's probably not true, but we so hope that it is, because we want justice to prevail. We want the bad guy to lose, and we want to believe that they will be tripped up by clever consequences. The thing about the real world that is so hard for people to deal with is that here the bad guys can win, and they can win big. We want a world like the movies where the good guy rides in, cleans up the town, gets the girl (and treats her right), and kills the bad guy. It doesn't happen that way in real life, but we hope it will. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but for every one happy ending, there are four unhappy endings. Like I said, maybe I'm just too cynical.
On a separate note, I want to invite all of you readers (what four, five now?) to check out my belle Michele's website. She has a keen eye about life, and she's a fellow educator. If I knew any real French, I would use it here. Unfortunately I know German, and all it does is march over the French language every 50 years or so....Now go look at that website, people.