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Does Insurance Cover This Kind of Thing?

By Margaret Lyons in News on Sep 17, 2008 6:04PM

Today's Darwin award nominee: "A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said." The guy was fine, so it's completely OK to laugh at this. [Trib]