When the owner of this badly parked car returned to their vehicle and saw a blue ticket on it marked 'VIOLATION,' they probably assumed the worst. They likely already knew that their car was parked badly, and so they'd have prepared themselves to deal with the penalty notice they were about to receive. Fortunately for them, this ticket didn't come from a warden or an official; it came from an eloquent and heavily sarcastic member of the public.
We can't help but admire the vocabulary of the person who wrote this up. We imagine that they carry several of these tickets around with them at all times, always on the lookout for someone to hand them out to. The description of the amount of space they took up is probably a small exaggeration, but if all bad parkers got camel flea infestations in their armpits, they might start thinking twice about their behavior.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.