A customer in Phoenix insisted his dent was from a meteorite

This guy, let's call him Bob, brought in a Honda Civic with a small, deep dent on the hood. He was dead serious, telling me he saw a 'flash in the sky' and heard a 'ping' while driving on the I-10 last Tuesday. He wanted the repair estimate to say 'meteorite strike' for his insurance. I had to explain it was just a rock chip from a gravel truck, but he wouldn't budge. Anyone else ever get a story that wild for a simple fix?

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verac402mo ago

That meteorite story is next level.

the_wade11d ago

Friend of mine had a Chevy Malibu with the back windshield just shattered one morning. He calls his insurance and tells them he thinks some kids threw a rock at it. They ask for proof, he doesn't have any, so they won't cover it as vandalism. A week later he's at a stoplight and a piece of asphalt flies up from a dump truck, cracks his windshield. Now he's got two broken windows and he's just mad. So he goes online, finds some model of a meteorite, takes a picture of it next to the cracked rear window and tells them it came from space. They sent an investigator out, the guy looked at the pattern of the crack, asked if he lived near any spaceports or military bases. My buddy just said "I don't know, it's Arkansas, who knows what comes out of the sky." They eventually paid out for "falling object" which is in their policy, so I guess he got his way.

rowan5932mo ago

Next level" is right, but honestly I get why he'd want that on the insurance form. I mean, "meteorite strike" sounds way more like an act of god than "rock chip from a truck," maybe he thought it'd get him a better payout or something. People come up with the wildest reasons to avoid the boring truth.