1. It’s Snow Joke
Now we all know to take extra care when driving in snow, but I have no idea how ending up parked ‘nose up’ is physically possible without a ramp or crane. I bet this motorist will pack his snow socks before hitting the road next time.

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2. Hole in One
This is the car crash equivalent of a hole in one. This motorist wouldn’t have been able to line this up again if he tried. I think that cop might be taking a picture! Classic…

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3. Science Defying Parking
How on earth? Now there’s missing the parking spot and then there’s this. He takes inconsiderate parking to a whole new level. How is the car parked next to them completely unharmed? How fast was he driving? Where can I get a pimping car like that? This picture raises more questions than it answers.

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4. Surprisse!!
Don’t you love it when restaurants live up to their names? I pretty sure the Fat Duck got one heck of a surprise when this huge white van came barrelling through the front window. On it’s roof. Perhaps he just really, really needed a takeout?

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5. Urban Dominoes
You know how it is, you’re playing dominos and you just want that extra bit of oomph. What can you do to ramp up the stakes? Play with cars of course, the obvious choice! Even the firemen look confused. Or maybe they’re trying to decide their next move.

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6. That Sinking Feeling
Do you ever get that sinking feeling? Unlike the rest of these crazy crashes this one happened in our very own UK. After hearing a loud crack this motorist found herself in a very large hole on her way to work. This takes a nightmare commute to the next level. And I think the train’s bad!

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7. Easy Access
Well that’s one way to ruin a Sunday dinner with the family. Is it possible that this motorist was so at one with his car he simply forgot he needed to get out to walk through the front door? Entirely understandable I think.

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8. Family Ticket?
What do you get when you mix a tourist and a satnav? This, as it happens. Thinking it was the entrance to and underground car park (with stairs?!) this hapless motorist launched themselves into the French subway. I suppose that’s one interpretation of going off the beaten track in Paris.

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9. Just Chillin’
Although this fallen-down truck is nothing unusual – “lorries topple over all the time”, I hear you cry – there is something that caught my eye about this little snap. There is someone still chilling in the cabin. Is it a ghost? Or the trucker in question just hanging out? Perhaps he doesn’t fancy clambering out in the rain, or maybe he’d rather finish his fag before dealing with the fallout. Either way, I’m confused.

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10. Seriously… WTF?!
Wha? How the…? There are so many things wrong with this picture. It looks like he’s fallen from the sky. Or perhaps treated the housing in the background like an enormous ramp jump. The joyful combination of lamppost and barrier keeping the car in place is beautifully serendipitous. Bravo good sir, bravo indeed.

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The reason for their astronomic claim is that they say the building’s fabric has been destroyed by mining subsidence, which is why they are set to make the £100 million subsidence claim. The property is based near Rotherham and it has got the longest country house facade in Europe. Inside it’s got an astonishing 365 rooms and it covers a gigantic 2.5 acres of land.

The property was under military control during the war and it is now in a ‘sadly dilapidated’ state although it is still surrounded by acres and acres of parkland, in which there’s plenty of room for things to be built; if the owners, three brothers Paul, Marcus and Giles Newbold chose to do something with it.

The brothers are seeking the £100 million compensation from the Coal Authority claiming that mining works that were ongoing from the 19^th century until about 30 years  have caused ‘extensive subsidence damage’ to the property over the last decade.

The case has now gone to a hearing after it was ruled the Coal Authority’s case wasn’t sufficient enough. It will now go to a hearing where the Newbolds need to prove that the £100m bill for ‘remedial works’ needs to be footed by the Coal Authority.

The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings to England, Northern Ireland and Scotland after storms reached up to 100mph in certain regions.

The harsh winds have caused disruption to public transport links and Briton’s properties as tiles are flown off roofs and trees collapse into roads. There are even cases in which debris has fallen through people’s homes to cause thousands of pounds worth of destruction repair.

The Environment Agency has also issued flood alerts across the country and if you have experienced water damage to your home or business property, you need to call Salmon Assessors immediately to start processing your flood insurance claims.

The storm has impaired many power lines widespread leaving Brits without power and damage includes smashed glass window panes and fire crews being called out to divert flooding water using sandbags.

Salmon Assessors have dealt with thousands of claims over the past 25 years and no other firm is more qualified to help you through such a disaster. If your house has been affected by the severe gale force winds get in touch today. The insurance company will send loss adjusters out to visit you so that they can report back with their findings but we also need to take notes of the initial findings in case the water damage claim is refused.

Our expert loss assessors are on your side and will ensure that we quickly help you find alternative living accommodation.  So give the experts a call!

After a month and after smoking his entire stockpile of these cigars he made a claim. He hadn’t even paid his first premium payment on his policy. In his claim, he stated that the cigars had been lost due to a “small series of fires.”

Unsurprisingly the man’s insurance company refused to pay out. Their reason for refusing to pay out; the man had obviously consumed his cigars in the normal fashion. So in response to this the lawyer decided to sue the insurance company and he won.

When the judge passed his ruling he agreed with the insurance company that the lawyer’s claim was frivolous but he said that aside from that the lawyer had a policy with the company and it was in fact the company who agreed that the cigars were insurable and in this policy guaranteed to cover them against fire damage.

They were forced to pay out after failing to define what they deem to be “unacceptable fire”. They reluctantly paid out $15,000 to cover the lawyer for his loss of cigars in the “fire.”

However after the lawyer cashed his cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. After having his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous cased used against him he was sentenced to 24 months prison and fined $24,000!

The man could obviously do with employing some loss assessors to help him through this at minimal cost after his insurance company’s loss adjusters cleaned him out of $24,000.

The majority of crazy insurance contracts mainly consist with celebrities and their body parts with things like legs, bums, and voices.

It is understandable that if a famous person earns their income from a particular asset that they would insure it in case anything hindered future income. Their ‘assets’ are treated upon like a business and that means money.

Here at Salmon Assessors, we may not necessarily be able to help you with insurance claims regarding your insured teeth but we are the UK’s leading Expert Insurance Claim Negotiators against burglary, flood or fire to your home.

Strange policies our loss assessors  have found whilst scrawling the web include insuring ones’ taste buds and it was speculated late last year that Kim Kardashian insured her famous bum. Another star that has insured her rear end is of course Jennifer Lopez who insured it for a whopping $27 million.

When you make your living out of strutting down a catwalk it makes sense to protect your lovely limbs and Heidi Klum did just that for a staggering $2.2 million. What is peculiar though is that the Victoria Secret supermodel insured her right leg for $1.2 million and her left pin for only $1 million.

Further reports state that Ugly Betty actress America Ferrera took out an insurance policy on her award-winning smile for $10 million; and the former girlfriend of High Hefner Holly Madison insured her breasts for a cool $1 million.

But it isn’t just female stars that have been taking out wacky covers. The guitar legend Jeff Beck reportedly decided to insure each finger for $1 million in case anything threatened his career with not being able to play the instrument. And English footballer David Beckham has insured his legs for $70 million- the biggest personal insurance policy in sporting history.

Salmon Assessors are best known for achieving phenomenal results where other loss adjusters fail, so if you need a conventional insurance policy, get in touch today.

For some people, what they do is a point of pride. For others it’s a closely guarded secret. But whatever you do, your job tends to define you. Whether you are a builder, doctor, lawyer, mechanic, astronaut, butler, or dictator, in this society you are your job. And while some jobs are lauded and some are laughed at, some are just plain strange…

7. Canine Semen Bank

You must please this dog for profit.

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The global banking system seems to be constantly on the brink of collapse. Any bank, no matter how prestigious or powerful, can be subject to financial ruin should the ‘fates of finance’ deem it so.  It makes a refreshing change to find a bank that has no problems keeping its accounts full.

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The Canine Semen Bank of Columbia is the most famous animal sperm depositary in the world and owes its success to its specificity. No cat, kangaroo or cougar deposits are allowed. This bank is 100% devoted to man’s best friend only. The facility is staffed by 2 fully qualified veterinarians who are experts in the retrieval and storage of dog semen. It does beg the question: after a pooch has made a deposit, does it gain interest?

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6. Submarine Cleaners

You can see your face in that propeller.

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They say a great salesman can sell ice to an Eskimo. So it must have been an extraordinary salesman who convinced the navy that a ship that spends all its time under water requires cleaning.  But an essential part of submarine maintenance is ensuring the ship’s hull is barnacle and blemish free.

This ship could do with a buffing.

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Proper propeller polishing can increase a ship’s efficiency and produce an energy saving of between 10-20%. The cleaners themselves prefer to be referred to as ‘Ship Maintenance Engineers’, which is perfectly understandable as ‘cleaning’ a ship can involve welding, ultrasonic scanning and even photographing, all of which takes place beneath the ocean’s treacherous waves.

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5. Sausage Museum

Now in a cup!

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Working in any museum could be considered quite a strange job. On an average day you may be occupied with anything, from preserving a mummified corpse to taking a group of toddlers on a tour. Yet one of the strangest museums on the planet must be Germany’s ‘Currywurst Museum’.

The Currywurst hungers only for love.

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Situated in Berlin, this museum is dedicated solely to Germany’s favourite fast-food dish. Currywurst consists of hot pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with ‘curry ketchup’, a mix of tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce and curry powder. Although relatively unknown outside its native Germany, it is estimated over 800 million servings of Currywurst are sold every year.

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4. Fortune Cookie Factory

Product of Donald Lau.

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With over 3 billion fortune cookies produced worldwide every year it’s not surprising to find they have Fortune Cookie Factories. Donald Lau, vice-president of Wonton Inc, is the largest producer of fortune cookies in the world. He also has one of the more unusual roles in the building, as it is he who is in charge of writing the fortunes.

Where fortunes are made!

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With over 4 million cookies produced in their Brooklyn factory daily, if each cookie required a unique fortune that would be a mammoth task. Luckily for Mr Lau that isn’t the case and instead he simply recycles fortunes he has previously written in his decades as a fortune cookie writer.

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3. Smell Laboratory

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Every day the average person breathes 23,040 times. And with every inhalation we open ourselves to the world of scent. Smell, the often overlooked sense, has the power to disgust and delight in equal measure. Most people manipulate the power of smell to some extent.

Not so mysterious for these scientists.

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From the perfume you wear to mask your natural body odor, to the smell of fresh bread pumped round large supermarkets, synthetic scents have to be produced somewhere. This is the job of the smell laboratory. And although olfactory experimentation is a well established and lucrative field, it must raise a few eyebrows when you tell people what you do.

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2. Corpse Farm

Some farmers grow grain, other farmers raise cattle, some even hire out their land so that drunken teenagers can sample their first drugs at unhygienic music festivals. And then there are those who run corpse farms. A corpse farm is better known as a forensic anthropology facility and is a place where cadavers are placed across the land in various states of decay to assist student scientists and doctors in their studies.

Some of the things you learn at the University of Tennessee.

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The first corpse farm was started by the University of Tennessee in 1981 and began with just one corpse. Today the farm has over 40 corpses at any time in a variety of scenarios and states of decay. This increase in the number of bodies used on the farm has allowed forensic scientists greater advancements in their field. But if you do own a corpse farm it’s probably best to not go bragging about how many bodies you have.

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1. Oyster Garden

The next generation of oyster gardeners.

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The delicacy we know as the oyster belongs to the family of molluscs, Ostreidae. These sub-tidal snacks can be eaten both cooked and raw and are rumored to be a natural aphrodisiac. But how do these tasty treats get from the ocean to your plate? Well, the sea can be an unsanitary place, so after being harvested from the sea, the oysters are taken to an ‘oyster garden’, where they are cleaned.

Hard at work in the oyster fields.

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In the ‘oyster garden’, the oysters are spread around a shallow barge or float. The floats are constructed to allow clean water to flow over the oysters removing any impurities that they may have picked up from the ocean. After being cleaned in the garden the oysters are then shipped to the shop, store or restaurant where the consumer can then purchase them, worry-free.

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That finished our round up of the strangest work places in the world, we’re by no means omnipotent (that privilege is reserved for the likes of Zeus and Odin), so if you or someone you know have a zanier workplace than the ones above please let us know.

Brand new, expensive presents offer rich pickings for robbers and according to findings by More Than, British households spend an extra £11 billion Christmas goods in December.

The statistics reveal that Brits are 13% more likely to be burgled in the season than any other month in the year which means insurance claims will be rife. Forget Santa Christmas shimmying down the chimney; it is pesky intruders you need to contend with.

There are some practical tips homeowners can take to secure the home during the holiday and as specialists in burglary, Salmon Assessors urges households to make sure all the goods are safe from prying burglars’ eyes.

- Avoid a seasonal catastrophe by putting electronics and presents out of sight and not visible from any windows when not in use; and close the curtains when you go to bed.

- If you are leaving the home empty for a night to go to a Christmas party, or if you are going away for the festive period, invest in a timer lamp so it looks like someone is home.

- Make sure all windows and doors are closed and locked securely.

- If you do have a safe, lock all valuable items away like jewellery, mobile phones and cash.

- After you have unwrapped your presents don’t put the packaging out for recycling straight away. If a criminal can see a branded box sticking out of the bin they will know a new laptop or TV has just been bought and it is practically inviting them into your home.

Try to follow these guidelines and have a safe Merry Christmas!

But rest assured if someone does break into your home, our professional insurance claims loss adjusters will formulate and negotiate the claim as sensitively as possible. We will deal with all of the repairs that may be needed to the home and we will help you substantiate everything that has been stolen.

Loss adjusters may inform people of their independence and impartiality however they have been instructed by the insurers to act on their behalf. They are employed by the insurance company to act in their best financial interest, not the claimant, so without the assistance of a loss assessor you could be left standing out in the cold.

Claiming an insurance pay-out can be complicated and troublesome as it is without expert help so ease yourself of all the strain and time-constraints and contact a professional loss assessor right from the commencement of the claim.

Salmon Assessors operates 365 days a year, 24/7, so if you are worried that your building’s insurance claim isn’t going to be approved, if you have found that the insurance company has thrown your claim out, let the specialist loss assessors work for you.

The firm’s vast wealth of experience has enabled it to establish a respected and trusted name in the industry. Let them do all the hard work for you and carry out the huge amount of labour and effort that goes into pursuing a claim; meaning you can just sit back and wait for them to negotiate and successfully win your claim.

Salmon Assessors fight to ensure that you get every last penny that you deserve and they act for claims all over the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The experts achieve phenomenal results and they simply do not know the meaning of giving up. They are the company that other loss adjusters often turn to when they need advice; so contact the friendly team today on 020 8346 6060- they are only interested in protecting and helping you.

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The flood water brought parts of Scotland into chaos with some people being rescued from their cars and others being stuck in their homes because of the rising water. But forecasters are warning that the heavy rain could prompt more flooding.

If you have experienced water damage to your home or business property, you need to call Salmon Assessors immediately to start processing your flood insurance claims.

The west of Scotland, central belt and border areas suffered between 20mm and 47mm of rain fall in a 24 hour period. Tyndrum, in Stirlingshire, was the wettest place with 47mm of rain whilst Glasgow had 38mm. Although the skies have cleared, drivers are being cautioned to drive carefully because of high winds and the first few days after a flood are vital to making a successful water damage claim.

The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain in the Highlands, Strathclyde, Central, Tayside, Fife and the Lothian and Borders areas.

Salmon Assessors have dealt with thousands of claims over the past 25 years and no other firm is more qualified to help you through such a disaster.

So if your house has been affected by the Scotland floods get in touch today. The insurance company will send loss adjusters to visit you so that they can report back with their findings. But we also need to take notes of the initial findings in case the water damage claim is refused.

So call us now and we’ll send out our truly professional and thoughtful loss assessors to help you in your flood claim.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has revealed its priorities on car insurance and fraudulent claims are one of them.

The UK financial services trade association has outlined its five urgencies and young drivers’ safety coincides with tackling the rising costs of whiplash, compensation reform, fraud and uninsured driving.

Otto Thoresen, ABI’s Director General, said at the ABI Motor Conference: “As a nation of car users with some of the busiest roads in the world, insurers are committed to providing the best possible deal for motorists.

“One of the key ways to achieve this has to be improving the safety of our young drivers, who continue to make up a disproportionate number of road casualties. Five years ago we called for measures, such as a minimum learning period, to tackle this tragic waste of life, yet every day 18 young people die or are seriously injured on our roads.”

He also expressed the other significances for motor insurers and fake insurance claims. It is reported that on average every minute one person makes a whiplash claim.

Thoresen claims that Britain must seek better diagnosis of genuine claims and make it harder to make a fraudulent claim for neck injuries. He added: “The long overdue reforms to our dysfunctional compensation system will benefit genuine claimants, deter fraud and, crucially, reduce the excessive legal costs in paying out personal injury claims.”

ABI hope to fight against fraud with initiatives including a dedicated police insurance unit and an insurance fraud register.

Here at Salmon Assessors, we are best known for achieving phenomenal results where other loss adjusters and loss assessors fail. We fight your corner until we get you the highest possible settlement, so if your claim is genuine we will never give up.