You ever have one of those weeks that just gets worse and worse? On Monday you miss the bus and get fired, Tuesday your girlfriend breaks up with you, Wednesday your parents disown you, and so on. Bad things usually come in threes, but if you think about it, 12,000 is a divisible of three, so technically that can mean 12,000 bad things.
That's what happens to the main character in this movie, but with much higher stakes. On Monday he kills a cab driver on accident, and then it snowballs from there. His girlfriend is the next day, followed by his brother on Wednesday. Then he just keeps killing. The good thing is he's a butcher, so hiding all that killing isn't too hard as long as his customers don't mind lean meat.
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.