Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/24/publicity_stunt_of_the_week_bizarre_phone_insurance_claims/
Publicity Stunt of the Week: Ten bizarre phone insurance claims
How did it get there?!?
Posted in Phones, 24th October 2012 09:33 GMT
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Here, apparently, are the UK’s ten oddest insurance claims made regarding mobile phones.
We offer them without comment on their veracity, though the mobile phone insurance go-between that sent them to us in the hope of some free publicity* insists the claims “were investigated fully”, presumably by the insurer it represents.
The site doesn’t record which claims, if any, were accepted and paid out.
Here you go:
- Inserted into a cow’s vagina
- Dropped in the bog during defecation - a perennial favourite, this; or should that be ‘perianal’? 'arf, 'arf
- Broken after being used as a sex toy
- Stolen by an aggressive seafront seagull
- Stolen by an aggressive safari park monkey
- Blown aloft by fireworks
- Broken when hurled at an inconstant boyfriend
- Dropped out of a tree while being used to illegally film a pop concert
- Baked in a birthday cake
- Dropped over the side of a cruise ship
You can see some past examples of this kind of thing here [1].
We can easily picture noted comedian Jasper Carrot, who has long performed an amusing routine based on peculiar insurance claims, wondering where the firm got the idea from... ®
*Oh go on, then. It's mobileinsurance.co.uk, a company run by Psychic Media to put punters in touch with gadgets-to-glasses insurer Supercover Insurance. No, we haven't heard of any of them.