Posted on 04/15/2020 5:27:02 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Here somewhere in a sleepy town in picturesque France, a new nefarious activity is occurring as a result of the Coronavirus “pandemic.” All of a sudden, restaurants and shops are coming up destroyed by fire.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday (Right Wire Report reporter), a fire damaged three businesses located at the port in this sleepy town. Two restaurants in another part of the town were also affected....
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Gee, ya think?
Insurance claims.
Vinnie the torch is in town
French lightning?
Insurance? Here when a bar on the line burned down it was believed by the locals to be for the insurance.
I was going to say Religion of Peace, but your explanation seems much more plausible.
They finally got sick of the smell?
Leased and highly leveraged cars next.
In 1997 the Red River flooded Grand Forks North Dakota and most of the business owners didn’t have flood insurance so, mysteriously, there were a lot of fires starting in a flooded downtown.
We used to call those “Friction Fires”. It’s when the insurance policy rubs up against the mortgage.
It is clearly due to the owners cashing in their fire insurance because their business is closed and likely not solvent anytime soon. This was common practice for night clubs and mob restaurants in large US cities like New York and Kansas City before air conditioning. They were too hot during the summer so they would close their doors and burn the club down. The insurance money would be used to remodel the club just in time for the fall reopening. The insurance premiums were very high but the companies were actually mob fronts that skimmed the premiums on the front end and sold the policies to large underwriters who didn’t ask questions.
“How do you start a flood???”
Sounds like an old joke, the punchline of which is:
“How do you start a flood?”
Beat me by 35 seconds
Somewhat like the odd rash of bar (tavern) fires we had around here 35-38 or so years ago.
About five small-town and semi-rural bars within a six mile radius burned down after hours over a two year period, all owned by different people.
Those were the days when we were still a free country and smoking was allowed in bars, so it could easily be blamed on a hot butt in the ashtray dumped in the trash can by the bartender at closing time.
None of those bars, which were all profitable as far as anyone knew, were rebuilt, and the properties are still empty lots to this day.
Rain dance, maybe?
Yup. Miami Beach, right?
During the gas shortage in the '70s, my brother was an insurance adjuster. He said you'd be amazed at how many gas guzzling cars burned up due to "engine fires". One guy evidently threw a bucket of kerosene in the back seat of his Lincoln, torched it, and claimed "engine caught on fire".
My brother said you could still smell the kerosene and see that the engine compartment was pristine. He denied the claim and reported it as such to the insurance company. He was livid when they paid off anyhow. Later that year, they raised the rates on everybody to make up for the losses.
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