In Florida, Allstate and Progressive seem to sneak in an extra charge on your car insurance if you own a red or silver car, or if you mention racing, they can cancel it. I went with my roomate to get insurance on his new car, a red eclipse that the prev owner used to race, and when the company asked about the car, he mentioned the prev owner... The rep said that due to the "true" purpose of the car, they cannot insure it.



As far as snakes go, my roomie's parents had a state farm rep come into the house to appraise some water damage, and he wanted to charge extra for having a terrier since there were "reports of children getting bit by terriers" and then he saw my snake that my roomie was holding for me for the week I went on vacation and he said he would contact them on the cancellation. I went into the local office with the snake, and a newspaper article that stated "Pit bull terrier attack child". I slammed the article on the desk and pointed out the fact that pit bull terriers and a rat terrier are two different animals, and the snake belonged to me, not them. And if they go as far as to cancel the insurance due to that, I told him I would haunt him till the day he died.

the next day he drove to the house to confirm the snake was gone, and formally apologized for his "idiocy".

Yes I know bulldog tactics are bad...but sometimes ya gotta do it for family.
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