Bad news.
- Colleague's garage is broken into. All family bikes and camping gear stolen.
Good news. You'd better be sitting down.
- Insurance company don't quibble, all resolved within a month. Colleague and his eldest sprog both get upgraded bikes out of it and all camping gear replaced.
Of course he's going to have to spend a small fortune beefing up the security of his garage so it's not unalloyed joy, but still..