Which one of you guys was this?

[Tritonrider]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/12/26/297458-cp.html

Scamming cyclist among top insurance frauds

By MARLENE HABIB

TORONTO (CP) - The cyclist thought he had his insurance-claim tracks covered: he had his girlfriend
run him over with her car, and then stuck a toothpick up his nose to aggravate his bleeding.

The devious bike-rider copped $22,000 in compensation. But the scam - among the Insurance Bureau of
Canada's top 10 frauds of 2003 - backfired. The cyclist was later taken to court when insurance
investigators discovered the man had deliberately injured himself to get his blood - and the
insurance money - flowing.

So is this why Kyle had to move? Bill C

[Howard Kveck]

In article <20031229074541.19282.00001637@mb-m13.aol.com>,
tritonrider@aol.com (TritonRider) wrote:

> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/12/26/297458-cp.html
>
>
>
> Scamming cyclist among top insurance frauds
>
> By MARLENE HABIB
>
> TORONTO (CP) - The cyclist thought he had his insurance-claim tracks covered: he had his
> girlfriend run him over with her car, and then stuck a toothpick up his nose to aggravate his
> bleeding.
>
> The devious bike-rider copped $22,000 in compensation. But the scam - among the Insurance Bureau
> of Canada's top 10 frauds of 2003 - backfired. The cyclist was later taken to court when insurance
> investigators discovered the man had deliberately injured himself to get his blood - and the
> insurance money - flowing.
>
> So is this why Kyle had to move? Bill C

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-01.htm

--
tanx, Howard

"Girls won't touch me 'cuz I got a misdirection..."
Pere Ubu

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

[Tritonrider]

>From: Howard Kveck YOURhoward@h-SHOESbomb.com

>http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-01.htm
>
>--
> tanx, Howard

I'm glad that I slowed down enough to realize what was going on. Thanks for the laugh. Bill C

[Kyle Legate]

TritonRider wrote:
>
> Scamming cyclist among top insurance frauds
>
> By MARLENE HABIB
>
> TORONTO (CP) - The cyclist thought he had his insurance-claim tracks covered: he had his
> girlfriend run him over with her car, and then stuck a toothpick up his nose to aggravate his
> bleeding.
>
> The devious bike-rider copped $22,000 in compensation. But the scam - among the Insurance Bureau
> of Canada's top 10 frauds of 2003 - backfired. The cyclist was later taken to court when insurance
> investigators discovered the man had deliberately injured himself to get his blood - and the
> insurance money - flowing.
>
> So is this why Kyle had to move? Bill C
>
Funny you should mention that. I did smash the bike up less than a week before moving (head-on into
a car coming out of a blind corner right in the middle of nowhere--no stop signs for either of us),
but fortunately it was not my girlfriend (just some local with his kid in the back) and there was no
bodily harm. I didn't want to deal with an insurance company in addition to all the other stuff on
my mind, and being of no fixed address for a while, so I decided to replace the 12 year old steel
Cramerotti with a new aluminum and carbon Fondriest on my own coin.

Maybe I should have carried a toothpick.