Get a Grip

In the wake of the Heaven’s Gate cult’s mass suicide, London’s Goodfellow Rebecca Ingrams Pearson insurance brokerage has decided to stop issuing or renewing coverage against “abduction, impregnation or attack by aliens”. The cult was one of about 4,000 policyholders worldwide. GRIP will, however, continue to offer other unusual insurance policies. “We insure virgins against immaculate conception, prostitutes against loss of earnings from headache and backache, conversion to a werewolf or vampire, death or serious injury through paranormal activity, and unfaithful husbands against Bobbitting,” a spokesman said. But even if the Heaven’s Gate followers made it to the supposed alien spaceship they were aiming for, their $1 million-per-member insurance policy will not pay, the spokesman says. “They would have to prove that they were abducted.” (AP) ...Back to kindergarten Rule #1: never take rides from strangers.