Sunday, July 10, 2005
10:40 PM
we need insurance against insurance

Insurance against Loch Ness Monster attacks: "David Pescovitz:
Triathletes participating in Scotland's biggest triathlon will swim in Loch Ness as part of the competition. Fortunately, each of the 100 participants will be insured for £1m against bites from Nessie. From The Guardian Unlimited:

'With so many top athletes in the water of Loch Ness at one time, we couldn't take the risk of one of them being attacked by Nessie,' said David Hart of the (insurance) firm Nova International.



'The competitors will all be very psyched up and very driven, so there's going to be a lot of noise and a lot of splashing going on, just the sort of thing that might annoy a prehistoric lake monster. Or even worse, give it an appetite...'



Not everyone welcomes the insurance deal, though. The official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club took exception to the suggestion that Nessie would attack anyone - however much they splashed.



The club's chairman, Gary Campbell, said: 'Everyone knows she is friendly; she has been present in the loch for centuries and never hurt a soul in all that time...'

Link (Thanks, Loren Coleman!)"

(Via Boing Boing.)