Posted on 02/29/2008 5:22:57 PM PST by piytar
(6 July 2006, Ohio) Insurance fraud is harder than it looks. ... Just ask Musa and his son Essa, who hired an arsonist to burn down their Steak Thyme Subs shop so they could collect the insurance money. ... The neighborhood was up in arms over the apparent "hate crimes" repeatedly being committed against the Jordanian immigrants. ... Eventually Musa grew tired of throwing good money after bad. For the fourth arson attempt, only 12 hours after the flaming chairs fizzled, he and his son decided to help out their hired hand. They spread gasoline around their eatery, so that a single match would do the trick. ... They took a cigarette break. One lit cigarette later, an accidental gas explosion took out one wall, and burned both men over 80% of their bodies. ... the men died from their injuries. ... [sidebar: After the third bungled arson, Musa was interviewed by 9News. He said, "If someone is trying to shut me out of business, it's not going to happen. This is my life and (...) nobody's going to take that away from me." Nobody but himself! ...]
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Who Cairs?
flaming idiots!
Actually, I knew a couple of guys that were tolly honkers back in the day. Someone “hired” them to go up and torch their vacation home, and geniuses that they were, they caught themselves on fire. For the next couple of years, we’d see them around the neighborhood with their full face skin masks in place.
They were good object lessons for the kids that were around - “don’t end up like those idiots”.
A double Darwin.
I would argue that it’s not a double Darwin since one did procreate thereby contributing his genes to the pool only to have them removed later. More of a delayed Darwin in the dad’s case.
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