From a distance, this doesn't seem like a particularly severe way to punish someone for parking that far outside the lines in a car park. Someone's pushed a shopping cart up to the driver's door to make a point, but that's it. Only it isn't. When the driver eventually got closer, they would have realized that what at first appeared to be a mild inconvenience is now a much bigger problem.
Some enterprising revenge genius has attached the cart to the door handle with a cable tie, and we all know how difficult those things can be to get off when they don't want to budge! Nine times out of ten your bare hands won't be enough, so unless the driver had a knife or a pair of scissors on their person, they'd have been helpless. The best thing to do would be to go back into the store, and purchase something capable of cutting your way to freedom - and then never parking like a fool again.
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.