Weird insurance claims include snakes in the plumbing, goat herding gone bad

Insurance claims adjusters get some pretty strange calls for claims that seem unbelievable, like the family in Lutz, Florida who heard strange noises only to discover their kitchen coming apart and hole growing underneath their home.

The family got out to safety and worked with their insurance company to make repairs, Fox 13 reported.

Sinkholes have become so common that Florida and Tennessee require insurance companies to provide coverage for damages, the Insurance Information Institute said.

Nine different times a New Brunswick, Canada couple have seen cars crash into their home since they moved there in the 1970s. Terry and Maureen Noble said the frequent crashes have caused them to avoid the far section of their house, CBC reported.

In 2016 a car crashed through a few walls but didn’t come to a stop until it pushed their freezer in the yard.

Their insurance companies paid for that ninth rebuild, CBC said.

One couple collected insurance twice for having sets of twins. The couple bought multiple birth insurance from Lloyds of London to cover the costs of having more than a single baby, Compare.com reported. After having the first set of twins, they purchased another policy and made another claim after delivering a second set of twins.

What do cats do when you leave them at home? One homeowner discovered the pet cat’s activities the hard way when the home was flooded. It seems the cat liked to play with the motion-sensor activities faucet. When couple with a dish rag that plugged the sink, flooding soon followed, Moneywise.com reported.

How do you herd goats? One driver learned honking your car’s horn is not the way to do it. After encountering a herd of goats blocking a country road, a man driving his sports car decided to honk his horn to get them to move, Compare.com reported. The goats did move by jumping on top of his car and battering horns against his door.

Comprehensive coverage came in handy after that country drive.

One Missouri hunter learned the hard way to watch what kind of scent your car wax leaves behind. He was diligently polishing his 4WD pickup truck with a car wax that had a banana scent. As he left his hunting grounds for the day, he found horses licking his truck. But that’s not all that they did. He also saw it was covered in bite marks, Compare.com reported.

Domesticated animals are one thing but imagine going into your bathroom and seeing a snake peaking its head out of the toilet. That happened to one Texas family, who had to have it removed from their plumbing. But then another 23 rattlesnakes were found beneath the home and around its plumbing, Compare.com reported.