OK, all you unfit businessmen out there, this is the launch of corporate tag rugby.
Pro-Tag Corporate Tag Rugby – yes, I know it's a mouthful – is being held at Moseley RFC on Tuesday evenings in May and Monday evenings in June.
It starts at 6pm and finishes by 8pm. It will run for eight weeks with a prize-giving on the final Monday
Companies enter a squad of ten players and each game is 7 v 7.
So far King Sturge, Eversheds, Jones Lang LaSalle, Nolan Associates, Johnson Fellows, Donaldsons and Knight Frank have signed up.
Games will last 30 minutes, each team will play one a week. So, shed some pounds and have some fun.
Plenty of beer in the clubhouse afterwards.
Contact Gareth Taylor on 07870 185558.
And here's Gareth in action. Note: You are not expected to play to this standard!
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Here is the best lawyer story of the year, decade and probably the century.
And it is supposed to be true.
A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.
Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company.
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires".
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
The lawyer sued . . . and won!
(Stay with me)
Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire, and was obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeals process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars in the "fires".
(Now for the best part)
After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson.
With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.
Only in America!