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Picking a fight with a school bus is enough of an exercise in bad judgment by itself, but an Indiana woman took the extra step of filing an insurance claim accusing the bus of starting the fight.
Shelley Lapsley, 42, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was charged with felony insurance fraud this week after claiming she was struck and injured by a Fort Wayne Community Schools bus, according to a report by the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
Ms. Lapsley allegedly submitted a claim to the school district’s insurance company, claiming bodily injury. However, surveillance footage tells a different story, according to the report.
Video taken from the bus’ onboard computer shows that Ms. Lapsley intentionally punched the bus with her fist, according to the Journal Gazette. She was charged with submitting false injury claims and misleading information to the insurer, but had not been arrested as of Wednesday morning.
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