Re: Geico donations

[PATRICK_KELLY@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com]

     Any one read about some other donations Geico made a few years ago?  
     Seems Geico purchased a struggling manufacturer of laser speed guns.  
     They then proceeded to "donate" the guns to law enforcement agency's 
     accross the country in the name of increasing highway safety.  The 
     guns came with one string attached, that they be used to write at 
     least X number of tickets each month.  Of course when someone was 
     given a ticket with one of these guns, there insurance premiums were 
     increased an average of 20% if memory serves.  The article then went 
     on to calculate the considerable financial benefit to Geico from the 
     increased number of tickets their policy holders would be recieving.  
     I've read this practice isn't limited just to Geico either.  The irony 
     of paying money to a company that is working harder to make you a 
     criminal is amazing.  And we wonder why road rage is on the rise.  I'm 
     sure there are good, honest individuals working in auto insurance but 
     the industry as a whole is down right un-American if not criminal. At 
     least Geico isn't contributing to the problems here in Massachusetts, 
     they stay out of Mass because the state would require them to insure 
     all risk groups.
     
     Flame away!
     
     Patrick Kelly
     '87 5kSQ
     Member of the National Motorists Association  www.motorists.com