<story><title>The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I gotta say, ditching a small airplane 30 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico is a hell of a risky way to collect $50,000 in an insurance payout. You&amp;#x27;ve got a lot of faith in your ability to make a &amp;quot;water landing&amp;quot;, much less that someone comes out and gets you before something goes wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fny</author><text>Sounds like a hell of a lot more fun than setting a house on fire.</text></comment>
<story><title>The wildest insurance fraud scheme in Texas</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I gotta say, ditching a small airplane 30 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico is a hell of a risky way to collect $50,000 in an insurance payout. You&amp;#x27;ve got a lot of faith in your ability to make a &amp;quot;water landing&amp;quot;, much less that someone comes out and gets you before something goes wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Same thought occurred to me.  I would have thought proving that was intention would be pretty hard considering the personal risk involved.</text></comment>