By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 12:41:34 | Updated at 2024-11-22 08:52:53
1 week ago
‘Bear’ wrecking luxury cars actually person in costume, insurance suspects arrested: US agency
straitstimes.com ^ | Nov 14, 2024
Posted on 11/14/2024 4:29:53 AM PST by V_TWIN
LOS ANGELES – Four people who allegedly had a person dressed as a bear damaging their own luxury cars in a bid to defraud insurance companies were arrested in the US state of California on Nov 13.
Suspicions were aroused when a claim was made for ripped seats and damaged doors on a luxury Rolls-Royce Ghost, an exclusive vehicle worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Claimants said a bear entered into the car when it was parked in Lake Arrowhead, a mountain spot outside Los Angeles, wreaking havoc on its interior.
To back up their claim, they provided photos of the damage as well as footage from a security camera, which they said showed the animal inside the vehicle.
But the company smelled a rat and contacted insurance fraud detectives.
“Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a bear costume,” said a release from the California Department of Insurance.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
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Let the bear puns fly!
1 posted on 11/14/2024 4:29:53 AM PST by V_TWIN
To: V_TWIN
2 posted on 11/14/2024 4:30:39 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: V_TWIN
Looks like there’s trouble a bruin.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 4:31:09 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: V_TWIN
“Ruben Tamrazian, 26, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, and Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, have all been charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy “
4 posted on 11/14/2024 4:31:37 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: V_TWIN
They hired an agentprovocabear?
5 posted on 11/14/2024 4:32:55 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: V_TWIN
I can’t believe Florida Man wasn’t involved in this.
6 posted on 11/14/2024 4:33:57 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: ansel12
I was going to guess foreigners.
7 posted on 11/14/2024 4:34:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
To: V_TWIN
I think the part of the clip showing the bear drinking beer out of a mug gave it away.
8 posted on 11/14/2024 4:35:31 AM PST by BobL
To: V_TWIN
This is unbearable.
But so crazy that it bearly deserves being told.
Someone has to BEAR responsibility for it.
The criminals should BEAR their souls as to why they did this.
If this doesn’t get me kicked off FR, I don’t know what will :)
9 posted on 11/14/2024 4:38:23 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: BobL
10 posted on 11/14/2024 4:38:36 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: V_TWIN
What gave them away, the picnic basket ?
Or was the informant a bouncing stuffed tiger?
11 posted on 11/14/2024 4:39:23 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: ansel12
12 posted on 11/14/2024 4:41:22 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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