Can You Insure It?

Patricia Bradley Mystery Question 47 Comments

I am halfway through my edits. Hope to be done by the time you are reading this!!

And yes, there’s a LOT of red on the page. 🙂

Some authors prefer writing the first draft and really get excited about it. I get excited, but it’s the HARDEST work I’ve ever done! The whole time I’m drafting I keep telling myself, you can’t edit what you haven’t written…

Now onto last week’s Mystery Question. Below you will find four headlines in the news. Three actually happened. I made up one. Can you guess which one?
  1. Man confesses to crime the day after he thought the statute of limitations had passed. Unfortunately, he was off a day and was charged with the crime.
  2. Fugitive makes a deal with PD to surrender if his wanted poster got 15K likes.
  3. Man detailing how he built bombs at his trial advised by the judge to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights.
  4. Man escapes murder charge due to victim dying from a fatal disease at the exact time the killer was completing his task.

This post was a fun one. The answers were all over the place. And the one I made up is…#1. Congrats to everyone who guessed correctly. I know #4 sounds crazy but here’s the link to the story.

And now for this week’s Mystery Question. It involves insurance claims and policies. Three of the following are true. I made up one. Guess which one. 🙂
  1. A jewelry store offered to refund their Christmas sales if the city got more than three inches of snow on Christmas day. Good thing because they got eight inches.
  2. After someone attempted to steal Liberace’s candelabra, he insured it for one million dollars.
  3. Speaking of celebrities, J. Lo insured her rear for $27 million dollars.
  4. A burglar who was trapped in his victim’s garage for a week after the garage opener malfunctioned. He sued the homeowners for mental anguish and collected a million dollars.

Okay, Super Sleuths, which one did I make up? Leave your comment and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a book from my library. And the winner of May’s contest for a book from my library is Caryl Kane!


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  1. Jan Ballard

    I’m confused by #1, so I’m going to guess it’s that one. Maybe it’s just late, or I’m reading it incorrectly. I don’t understand how a jewelry store could refund their sales? To the people who bought the merchandise? But then you said they got over 8 inches of snow. I think I need some sleep, or something. 🙂

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  2. Mary Hart

    I will go with #4. #1 is confusing! There is a store around here that has offered to refund your money if it snows on Christmas. I don’t remember how many inches.

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  3. Tim Johnson

    Wow, isn’t human nature funny? How dumb is the burglar in #4! And people insure the craziest things. Still, I think #2 is the one you made up. Happy editing, Pat.

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  4. Edward Arrington

    I’m choosing #3 again. Frankly, I never paid any attention to J. Lo’s rear so I don’t understand what it would be insure from or against. I know there are insurance companies that insure anything and everything. For example, I learned about 15 years ago that organizations who hold golf tournaments and offer a new car to anyone scoring a hole-in-one on a specific hole simply buy an insurance policy to pay for the car if that happens. However, I can’t think of a single reason that anyone’s rear would be worth $27 million. The fact I can’t imagine this probably means it really happened.

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      1. Edward Arrington

        I am being totally honest when I say I have noticed her rear. In fact, if I saw a picture of several current female movie stars together (I am speaking of their faces), I doubt I could tell you which one is J. Lo. I seldom watch TV and have only seen a couple of movies in the past 40 years that were not Christian movies. I simply don’t have a desire to support Hollywood and what it represents by going to the movies. By the way, if you displayed the rears of those same movie stars, I would have an even greater difficulty trying to identify them. You can ask my wife how much attention I pay to movie stars.

      2. Edward Arrington

        UGH!!! I clicked submit and after it displayed, I reread the first sentence. I did NOT say what I meant to say. I intended saying “I have NOT noticed her rear.” Believe me when I say I don’t know hers from any other movie star’s.

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        Patricia Bradley

        Oh, Edward, I was teasing you. I’m with you. I went to see one movie last year – If I Could Only Imagine. And I don’t watch TV either other than the news and little of that–it’s too depressing. And I knew what you meant to say. 🙂 I do watch Antique Roads Show…mainly because everything in my house is an antique. lol

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  5. Gloria A

    I am going with #4. I remember hearing something about JLo insuring her rear and maybe even something about Liberace’.

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  6. Trixi

    I’ll say #2 this week, though they all sound about right! People sue or claim insurance for the strangest things 😉

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