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We are reliably informed that these are actually true stories.... but, like, no
guarantees, guys....

An employee for Ansett Australia, who happened to have the last name of GAY, got
on a plane recently using one of his company's "Free Flight" programs. However,
when Mr.Gay tried to take his seat, he found it being occupied by a paying passenger.
So, not to make a fuss, he simply chose another seat. Unknown to Mr. Gay, another
Ansett Australia flight at the airport experienced mechanical problems. The
passengers of this other flight were being re-routed to various airplanes. A few were
put on Mr. Gay's flight and anyone who was holding a "free" ticket was being
"bumped". Ansett officials, armed with a list of these "freebee" ticket holders,
boarded the plane to ask them to disembark. Of course, our Mr Gay was not sitting in
his assigned seat as you may remember. So when the Ticket Agent approached the
seat where Mr. Gay was supposed to be sitting, she asked a startled customer "Are
you Gay?". The man shyly nodded that he was, at which point she demanded: "Then
you have to get off the plane". Mr.Gay, overhearing what the Ticket Agent had said,
tried to clear up the situation: "You've got the wrong man. I'm Gay!". This caused an
angry third passenger to yell "Hell, I'm gay too! They can't kick us all off!" Confusion
reined as more an more passengers began yelling that Ansett Australia had no right to
remove gays from their flights. Ansett refused to comment on the incident.



Thrash-happy judges in Saudi Arabia have sentenced a Filipino man to 75 lashes for
possession of alcohol - after he was caught with two chocolate liqueurs at an airport.



After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20
mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had
escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus-stop
and offered everyone in the queue a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the
mental hospital, telling staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre
fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for three days.


A Charlotte, NC, man, having purchased a case of very rare, very expensive cigars,
insured them against fire (among other things). Within a month, having smoked his
entire stockpile of cigars and without even having made his first premium payment on
the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man
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 man sued and won. In delivering the ruling the judge, agreeing that the
claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that 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 against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable
fire," and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly
appeal process the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000
for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires". After the man cashed the cheque, however, the
company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and
using his testimony against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his
insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.