Four Californians this week have learned a critical lesson in the bear necessities of life and larceny. Ruben Tamrazian, 26, of Glendale, Ararat Chirkinian, 39, of Glendale, Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, of Glendale, and Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, of Valley Village are accused of a novel fraudulent scheme in which a compatriot donned a bear outfit and pretended to be a wild animal trashing their luxury cars, including a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, a 2015 Mercedes G63 AMG and a 2022 Mercedes E350.
The four men were charged with insurance fraud for staging fake bear attacks with the bear costume after a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance and San Bernardino County authorities called “Operation Bear Claw.”
The men submitted grainy videos of a bear tearing through their cars. However, insurance investigators were a bit suspicious in watching the movements of the bear. They brought in a biologist who said that that was no bear but a man in a bear suit. The biologist noted that the claw marks actually did not fit the pattern of an actual bear claw.
When the detectives searched the homes, they found the bear outfit. The men had allegedly defrauded insurance companies of $141,839.
The men missed the meaning in the sage words of Baloo the Bear on the bear necessities. They took him literally when he said:
Well, next time bewareDon’t pick the prickly pear by the pawWhen you pick a pearTry to use the claw
First, it has to be your claw and second the point is to set aside those obsessions with possessions, man:
And don’t spend your time lookin’ aroundFor something you want that can’t be foundWhen you find out you can live without itAnd go along not thinkin’ about itI’ll tell you something trueThe bare necessities of life will come to you
I don’t understand what they hoped to achieve by this. They ruined their own cars, in order to obtain insurance payments covering a portion of the damage?! Or even all of it, but still at best they break even!
” hoped to achieve by this…?” You answered yourself in the next sentence.
No, I didn’t. Seriously, what was the point? AT BEST all they could do was break even. And it was far more likely they’d make a loss, because the payment wouldn’t cover the damage. So what did they hope to achieve?
Milhouse: The “bears” ingested too much cannabis and decided to stage a happening, perhaps? This was creative irrationality.
* they had to make their car payments…
Seriously…not enough info
The insurance companies will be looking for a clawback.
I wonder if they would’ve been better off with staging a Sasquatch rampage?
By pulling a Sasquatch caper they could’ve had an episode on the History or Travel channels.
The left will bearly believe this!
Zelensky says he’s sure the Russia-Ukraine war will end faster when Trump gets into office
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* Here’s another–> reportedly the FDA confiscated 80, 000 lbs of butter because milk wasn’t listed as an ingredient and people have milk allergies.
An example of theft by the government or its officials to then repackage (or not) and resell the butter as profit. It’s stolen butter. 80, 000 lbs at 7 dollars per lb? That’s a lot of potatoes.
The butter was not confiscated. I don’t know where you got that idea. The FDA required Costco to recall all that butter. Presumably if it hasn’t expired it can then repackage it and resell it. But it’s completely silly. It’s butter; anyone who has a problem with it would not have bought it in the first place.
I suppose the FDA and Costco contacted you and let you know what they had palnend? And, so “anyone with a problem…” Stop for a sec, if there was peanut in the butter, and not listed on the pkg., then someone with an allerguy would NOT know to avoid it. Think before you comment.
What?
Peanuts?! What the actual f*** are you talking about? It was butter. There was nothing in it but cream and salt. Anyone who had a problem with milk would not have bought it.
Seriously, who needs a notice on butter that it “Contains milk”?! Of course it does! It’s required by law to contain milk. If it didn’t they couldn’t sell it as butter!
Nah, the problem is in the use of the word butter. Almond butter, peanut butter…the COW picture wasn’t on the label.
It’s the level of picture books.
I butter go now.
Repackaged butter can’t be sold on the market. Maybe they buried it.
Who says it can”t be resold? And if that is really true, why on earth not? Either you’re making it up, or it’s yet another stupid law.
Even if it’s true, though, those in charge of handling it could simply take it home, and give it out to all their friends and relatives and anyone else who wanted it. No need to destroy it.
Why do I feel like this was a pun in search of a column?
That often happens. But it’s not a bad thing when it provides a brief respite from more contentious matters.
There was a vicious murder committed not too long ago that the perpetrator altered the scene to mimic a bear attack. It didn’t work and he’s now hibernating on death row I hope. All over a campsite, incredible.
OT, but considering the lighter fare nature of Prof. Turley’s column today, hopefully this doesn’t bother anyone.
The eminently readable Jeffrey Tucker celebrates the (tentative) changing of the guard:
The Revolution of 2024
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-revolution-of-2024/
“What is happening? This is not the usual transfer of the resident of the White House. This is starting to look like an actual transfer of power, not just from Biden to Trump but from the permanent government – ensconced in many sectors – that has been long in hiding to an entirely new form of government responsive to actual voters.”
YOU CAN’T DO IT!
The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, enumerates the powers of government; if it’s not there, government can’t do it. By contrast, the Communist Manifesto allows government to do anything anytime.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general Welfare…” – ALL or THE WHOLE WELL PROCEED through governmental provision of security and basis infrastructure – omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure.
The Necessary and Proper Clause is nothing more than a perfunctory redundancy for the purposes of clarification—a reinforcement of that which was previously codified—and may not be wielded to amend and impose separate acts that do not represent but alter the letter and spirit of the Founders and Framers.
Rights, Freedoms, Privileges, and Immunities are ABSOLUTE
or
Rights, Freedoms, Privileges, and Immunities don’t exist.
* Are you George #1 or George #2.
Yes, I c your point.
* I’ve been thinking lately the founders may not have considered staggering population growth.
There are lots of things they did not consider. None of which change the nature of humans.
Do humans have free will ?
If you answer no – welcome to hell.
If you answer yes, you end up with something close to what our founders created.
Yes, except for my eye color unless I choose colored contacts.
Free will is determined by options. Options are determined by thought, thinking. Once there were no wheels. There were no wagons. ………..
truth stranger than fiction. Clip from Jungle Book perfect and priceless!
“The Bear Necessities of Larceny: Californians Arrested for Fraudulently Staging Bear Rampage”
– Professor Turley
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“The Bear Necessities of Larceny” were employed by Bucks County Democrat Commissioners Diane Marseglia and Bob Harvie who deliberately violated the law to fix an election by their own admission saying, “We all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws anytime they want….”
https://x.com/BucksGOP/status/1857129301092807028
* The case makes little sense. These 4 men might have sold one luxury car if they needed cash and purchased a Hyundai instead? 35 thousand each is a paltry sum? What was the reason?
Theft is contagious. Everyone thinks they can steal now. It’s a cultural value.
Coconspirators of Cocaine Bear?
Skirmisher