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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Shane Hyde)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Wed Mar 21 15:40:02 2001
...when Mir went down?

Me? I'm playing Shadowrun tonight as it plummets to its death!

Shane
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Chris Haase)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Thu Mar 22 07:45:01 2001
Me? I was praying to the Taco Bell Dog that the
target got hit and everyone in the world got a free
taco!!!




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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (BD)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Thu Mar 22 10:35:05 2001
> Me? I was praying to the Taco Bell Dog that the target got hit and
everyone in the world got a free taco!!!

Everyone in the U.S., isn't it? Wouldn't matter a fig to lots of
us... did you know they bought an insurance policy to cover them if the
target actually got hit? Strange days...

====-Boondocker

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Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Bob Ooton)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Fri Mar 23 07:45:01 2001
BD wrote:

>> Me? I was praying to the Taco Bell Dog that the target got hit and
>
> everyone in the world got a free taco!!!
>
> Everyone in the U.S., isn't it? Wouldn't matter a fig to lots of
> us... did you know they bought an insurance policy to cover them if the
> target actually got hit? Strange days...
>
> ====> -Boondocker

That's more or less standard procedure on any prize giveaway and is
becoming increasingly more common in other areas. Golf tournaments
that offer a car for a hole in one do so through insurance. The
insurance company is betting that nobody will get a hole in one, just
like they bet that you won't wreck your car if you get car insurance
through them. Insurance is really no more or less than gambling.

My favorite insurance now is that available to college athletes who
are all but guaranteed to make it into the professional realm of their
chosen sport. A bank will give a student-athlete a loan to pay for
insurance that will pay them X amount of dollars if they are injured
badly enough to take them out of the first round of the draft (or
second, or third depending on the athlete and where he's expected to
be drafted) or injured in a career-ending manner. The NFL supports
these policies as they tend to keep students in school instead of
having them declare early just so they can get big bucks faster.
These policies can run upwards of $20,000,000... nice. =)

And man, I wish that the target had been hit. Heheheh. I guess a
free taco isn't that big a deal, but it still would have been funny. =)

--
Bob Ooton
<rbooton@*****.edu>
Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (BD)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Fri Mar 23 15:15:01 2001
> That's more or less standard procedure on any prize giveaway and is
becoming increasingly more common in other areas. Golf tournaments
that offer a car for a hole in one do so through insurance. The
insurance company is betting that nobody will get a hole in one, just
like they bet that you won't wreck your car if you get car insurance
through them. Insurance is really no more or less than gambling.

Well, you learn something every day, don't you? Thanks, Bob.

> My favorite insurance now is that available to college athletes who
are all but guaranteed to make it into the professional realm of their
chosen sport. A bank will give a student-athlete a loan to pay for
insurance that will pay them X amount of dollars if they are injured
badly enough to take them out of the first round of the draft
<li'l snip>

That sounds like a good run idea. College player who suddenly needs
lots of cash decides to collect on his insurance, so hires some runners
to give him a career ending injury...

Or prehaps little Betsy's parents (little Betsy being a genetically
guaranteed champion sprinter) arrange for a little 'accident' a couple
years before Betsy becomes an adult. The insurance money would
naturally go to them to be held in trust...

I'm sure others can come up with more devilish schemes :)

====-Boondocker

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Message no. 6
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Michael Webb)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Fri Mar 23 15:45:01 2001
> That sounds like a good run idea. College player who suddenly needs
>lots of cash decides to collect on his insurance, so hires some runners
>to give him a career ending injury...

We actually did that.
One of my weirder adventures was one in which some rabid urban brawl fans
hire the pcs to beat up the star player of a team the night before a big
game, or at least that's the way it looks. Actually, they were friends of
the guy who wanted him to get out of his contract with his insurance money
intact....
Message no. 7
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Fri Mar 23 17:50:01 2001
>>>Insurance is really no more or less than gambling.

I'll remember that the next time I get a ticket for not gambling (IE,
driving without insurance). I had to pay a $200 surcharge on my insurance
because I bought my car, then did not buy insurance until one week later- I
was fixing the thing. How does that affect the "odds"?

-Mongoose
Message no. 8
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Andrew Murdoch)
Subject: What were you doing...
Date: Fri Mar 23 18:25:01 2001
- Sebastian Wiers <17:02/23-Mar-2001>

> I'll remember that the next time I get a ticket for not gambling (IE,
> driving without insurance). I had to pay a $200 surcharge on my insurance
> because I bought my car, then did not buy insurance until one week later- I
> was fixing the thing. How does that affect the "odds"?

Exactly the way you'd think: The local government and/or your insurance
company has your money.

Ironically, getting back to the original thread topic: Where was I when
Mir came down? Working. As a croupier in a casino.

--
Hail, Centurion!
Andrew C. Murdoch
toreador@***.bc.ca
http://members.nbci.com/corvisraven

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