The Chaser Report - Extra - Worst Insurance Scam Ever

Episode Date: August 11, 2020

The latest news from around the world with Nina Oyama, Dom Knight and Charles Firth. A 66 year old man tried to run an insurance scam and accidentally burned down 673 hectares of environmentally protected vegetation in the Araras Biological Reserve, in the process. A bear has been spotted in North Carolina wearing a pro-Trump sticker. A dispute between two neighbours has seen an 86 year old woman put in jail. Plus all the headlines from Rebecca De Unamuno. 
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Now we're heading to Brazil. Dom and Charles, you know Brazil. Have you heard of a little place called Rio de Janeiro? No, never heard of it. Well, it exists. And this week, there was a 66-year-old man who tried to run an insurance scam and accidentally ended up burning down

673 hectares of environmentally protected vegetation and forest. Oh, I tell you how to when that happens? I know, every time. So this guy called the insurance company, claiming that his car broke down and that two men mugged him at gunpoint and then burned his car. So he said that to the insurance.

company, and it later turned out to be a lie. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, but there are two things that made it very clear to the police that what he said was untrue. Do you guys want to take a guess? Can I guess that he still had his wallet on him? Yeah. Despite being mugged.

Oh, yeah. He still had his phone on him. And his clothes were very neat and there was no sign of struggle. And he was also really chilled out about it. Like his friend came to pick him up later and he was super chill. But there was another thing. Was it that he had recently. upped the insurance money on his car?

No, although that would have been smart. Yeah, that's a classic, isn't it? You didn't own a car. No, he did. He did own this car. It was his car. But when the car, after it was burned, they did a forensic test on the car, and they found out that it was set a light with gasoline, and then they looked at the petrol station

surveillance from down the road, and they saw the same man fill a big bucket full of gasoline and put it in the back of his car and drive on. Well, I mean, he may have just been stockpiling petrol. Like, you know, you never know when you're going to run out of petrol. That is circumstantial evidence. Just because the guy had a giant bucket of petrol that wasn't in the gas tank of his car. And it was the same petrol that got tested. Just because he had means, motive and a bloody great big pile of petrol doesn't mean he did it.

I mean, I'm just curious as to who's selling open buckets of. petrol near a world heritage or vegetation. I mean, that's a question for another time. But it's true, the damage to the forest was pretty bad. Like, it actually took three days to battle the fire and a joint task force of 72 firefighters and environmental agents to fight the flames. God, I hope they got the insurance on the forest. Yeah, and that actually took around 17 vehicles just because of this one old car.

And do you want to take a guess at how much. money he was going to get if he got away with it? Probably a shipbox car. I'm going to get about $2,000. It's a little bit higher. Yeah, I was going to say like $10,000 maybe. It was $4,700. Well, I suppose if we'd have the kind of car

where he'd be comfortable with petrol in the back seat. Yeah. But anyway, instead he burned down half a forest, and now he's in jail. Can you think of a better way to scam insurance companies? Well, we know how to scam an insurance company. Oh, really? Yeah, it's really.

Remember Rodney Adler? Oh. Yeah, what you do is you burn down, you buy a printing factory. Okay. You burn it down. Classic. And then you make sure that your dad owns the insurance company that then does the insurance payout. Ah.

Yep. That is, I'm going to have to get adopted by an insurance dad. Yeah, exactly. And you can do that multiple times. I think it happened twice. Can I also clarify that no one living. in any way knows about this story and it's entirely circumstantial

and no one has money in their Swiss bank account particularly. I mean, I just, I think if you want insurance, you have to love burning stuff. Yeah, yeah, but there's other ways to get good insurance scams. Like I had a friend who

wanted to scan, they had their mobile phone insured. Right. And they wanted to get the cash for it. And so they threw their mobile phone into the harbour of a ferry to get the money. Right. But instead, they didn't read the fine print and instead they were just given a new

fire. They're really pissed off about it. Oh, your friend is an idiot. Yeah, totally idiot. Well, speaking of idiots, now we go to Perth, a little news article about a dispute between two neighbours that has seen one 86-year-old woman put in jail. So there's a bit of a theme to this world news is just old people committing crimes. But basically, it was a dispute between two neighbours.

Then there was a dirt patch that bordered their properties. And one of the women apparently was overstepping the boundary by watering the patch of garden that wasn't on her side. Don't you hate it when neighbours perform maintenance on your house without asking? Well, apparently the other neighbour really didn't like it. And they claimed the patch was actually theirs. And so the two got into a water fight using garden hoses. Amazing.

Is there footage of this? Please tell me there is footage of this. And then the 86-year-old woman threatened to kill the other woman, and then she got put in jail for a week. That got dark quickly. I mean, when I was having 80-year-olds spraying each other with garden hoses, it was all comedy, and then someone got threatened to be killed. Well, in my mind, when the 80-year-olds were spraying each other with garden hoses,

it was quite sexy. I was like, oh, yeah. They were both wearing white. Sex-positive. But hang on, we're in the time of coronavirus. It's like, any, no 80-year-old. or go near another 80-year-old. That's how nursing home deaths happen.

Well, maybe they were hosing each other down. They were hosing off the coronavirus. Maybe they're hosing each other down with disinfectant. Yeah, if you hose each other down for the length of how long it takes to sing happy birthday, I think that's how you kill the virus. No, but I think everyone's looking at this wrongly. This is, you know, like, sure, it was about a patch of land and about maintenance over, you know, gardening dispute, but clearly this was too, that was just a symbol of some deep.

passive-aggressive argument that have been happening between two neighbours for centuries, probably. You're just based on your own experience, I'm sure. It's probably, well, yes, exactly. But you're always getting to sort of long-standing fights with your neighbours. That's just how life works.

So that's what would have happened. It probably was that, you know, one of the neighbours had slept with the other neighbour's husband during World War I. And then, you know, this was the final sort of It was a different time back then. What kind of disputes have you had with your neighbours?

I'm just imagining that the first woman wanted to burn down the patch of grass and claim it on insurance. I've had several. Really? Yeah, and I didn't have it before I moved near Charles and so I'm suspicious. What one of them does is one of them complained that our toilet squeaked so we don't use it at night at all. You're like, oh, babe, that wasn't the toilet.

But it does. Actually, it's a really cheap plastic toilet where we're renting. And when you sit down on it, it squeaks loudly, and apparently it's right near their heads. So can't you just get some WD-40 or something? We could afford to buy. We could just go and buy a new toilet seat, but it's a rental property. We don't want to put that kind of money into the landlord. It's 50 bucks.

Yeah, we had a neighbor who very famously got very annoyed that we'd hold these parties late into the night. But instead of complaining to us, or even complaining to the police, they decided to get a large pan of boiling hot water and throw it over the fence and scald quite badly several of our guests. Are you serious? Yes, yes. Oh, is that that party?

That definitely happened, yeah, yeah. Did you get burnt? No, no, no, someone else did. Oh my God, isn't that like a medieval technique to get people off your moat? It did work, though. Like, put a real damninger on the party. It did shut the party down and there was no more noise

until the fucking ambulance turned up. That's right. Wow, that's terrifying. Oh man, my name is a lovely. So this granny should count themselves lucky that it was cold water that was being sprayed between them. Yeah. Eish.

I'm still watching the video. So now I'm going to head to America where a bear has been spotted in North Carolina wearing a pro-Trump sticker. Can I just clarify, when you say bear, I mean, I'm a hairy man. We're not talking about like a Mardi Gras type bear. Not a hairy man.

An actual live bear. Can I just say there are several hairy man bears that have been spotted wearing pro-Trump stickers, but that is not. Okay. Well, the bear is a symbol of Russia, isn't it? Yes, the Russian bear. It makes perfect sense that they'd be pro-Trump. Putin planted it there.

Yeah, exactly. Well, I just want to flag as well. The sticker is on its collar, so it's not on its fur. So the bear's part of a suburban bear study in North Carolina. So someone stuck it to their plastic bear collar. Well, hang on. Who's the scientist, the one scientist in America who's a Trump fan? I find this very hard to believe.

Well, that's what I'm thinking. I think it's a civilian that got up close and personal to the bear. That's brave. Though Trump support is so stupid. Well, apparently the scientists are really angry because it means people are approaching the bear, which is not safe, according to scientists. Which I didn't need to scientists to tell me that.

Isn't like don't poke a bear? A literal phrase? He's one. Maybe the scientists did plant it there so that Trump supporters would go up to the bear thinking he was a friend and then get rid of all the people who are Trump supporters by killing them. Yeah, they could look in the stomach of the bear and they'd find some rednecks. Yeah. That's genius.

Well, all that aside, do you think this is an effective way to market Trump in 2020? Do you think it's going to help him win? I think this is the best thing I've ever heard about Donald Trump's political career. But there's a bear out there who's on his side. That's it. It's all he's got. Do you think the bear is, though, I think it's unfair to kind of, you know, that's like if someone wandered into your yard and put a Trump sticker on you.

I was going to say put a Trump placard in front of your house. It is a bit unfair when just dumb animals who can't think for themselves, you know, get dragged into an evil political campaign. I mean, it happened to Mike Pence. Yeah. But, but look, I think, I've lived in America, bears are cocks. Bears are absolute fuckwits of an animal. They really try and kill you.

They're really aggressive. They're sort of like the animal kingdom equivalent of rednecks. I thought they just like ate honey from a pot and loved friendship. No, that's all left liberal propaganda. That's not true at all. No, they're awful, awful. So it does it actually make sense that they would be Trump supporters? I think this bear put it on himself.

Okay. Yeah. Well, case closed. All bears vote for Trump. Actually, they probably vote for Kenya West. The Chaser Report. news a few days after it happens. Anyway, that's all the world news we have time for this week.

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