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Operation Storm Area 51 is less than two months away and aside from necessary preparations like Darth Maul armor and mixed nuts for energy, you best make damn sure your alien abduction insurance policy covers any unforeseen shit that could go down on September 20th.
Mike St. Lawrence, owner of the Saint Lawrence Agency in Altamonte Springs, Florida, claims his agency offers limited or comprehensive alien abduction insurance that promises to pay you $10 million if you can prove you’ve been abducted by aliens. The price to be covered for life: a meager one-time premium of $19.95 digital or $24.95 for a paper copy. St. Lawrence also bundles in reincarnation insurance and asteroid insurance to sweeten the pot.
Here is a video from 1999 of St. Lawrence detailing the insurance on Fox 13 News.
St. Lawrence has sold over 6,000 alien abduction insurance policies since he first created it in 1987, and claims that business has skyrocketed since the recent spike in Area 51 interest.
St. Lawrence acknowledges that the policy is tongue-in-cheek and will not sell to anyone who truly believes they’ll be getting paid out (the fine print reads that beneficiaries will be paid in equal installments of $1 per year for 10 or 20 million years).
That doesn’t stop people who are serious about alien abduction coverage from calling.
Via Fox35:
He recalled a moment when he received a call from a woman inquiring about the policy saying her and her husband both remember having an extraterrestrial experience they had previously never revealed.
“Their 9-year-old son and daughter, I don’t remember how old she was, were both starting to say that they were having some kind of experience like that, and that’s not funny,” he added.
He suggested to the family that this policy wouldn’t be right for them because it was meant to be humorous.
St. Lawrence added that we he started the gimmick, nearly everyone knew it was a joke. But as of late, the mood has shifted.
“When I started most people thought it was completely absurd, and today I’d say 50 percent of the people think it’s a possibility,” said St. Lawrence.
Head over to St. Lawrence’s website to get your ass covered.
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