18 — Friday, April 5, 1991 — North Shore News

CBC tales from strange but true files

OUT OF Province Claims is a special unit set up by ICBC
to help B.C. motorists who have claims as a result of ac-
cidents outside the province. According to George Scurr,

one of this unit’s adjusters,

unusual! — to say the Jeast.

George tells of a young man
charging down a U.S. highway
shortly after dusk when his
headlights caught an object on the

"whitey Glover” says ...
it’s time for that spring ...

some of those claims are

toad ahead of him. Drawing
closer, our motorist saw it to be a
small mattress from @ child's crib
and, confident of its flexibility,

drove over it.

About five or ten miles later, he
noticed a flickering in his rear-
view mirror. The back end of his
car was totally ablaze, leaving a
stream of fiames down the high-
way.

The mattress snagged
underneath the vehicle and was set
on fire by the exhaust systern. Our
hero bailed out in time but his car
was, literally, “toast.”

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Then there were the two travel-
lers who were forced to abandon

. their Delorean just north of Los

Angeles where it ran out of fuel.
The two set out on foot to find
a gas station. Upon returning,

they found another vehicle parked
behind theirs and an individual
feverishly working to relieve the
Delorean of its stereo system.

They managed to subdue the
would-be thief for the police, who
carted him off to jail. Later, a
judge let the man go on his own
recognizance on a promise to ap-
pear at a later date, but that’s the
last that was seen of him.

These two stories are from an
interview with Scurr done by
Michele Penz, Assistanr Editor of
“‘People,’’ ICBC's employee
newsletter. Michele has asked
ICBC claims staff for other
unusual claims stories, which we
hope to pass along to you from
time to time in Auto Topics.

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