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Dead Man Keeps Paying Bills
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134973,00.html
A Winnipeg, Manitoba, man died nearly two years ago, but thanks to automatic bill payments, no one noticed.
"How can that happen, for God's sake? Two years!" exclaimed Sam Shuster, a neighbor of Jim Sulkers, to the Canadian Press wire service.
"I used to ask the president of the [condominium] board of directors 'Where in the hell is he?'" Shuster added. "She said all she knew was the bank gets the monthly money, so we don't worry about it."
Sulkers, said to be in his 50s, suffered from multiple sclerosis (search). The province's chief medical examiner said his mummified corpse bore no sign of trauma, though an exact cause of death could not be determined.
A cousin, Kim Dyck, who lives across town, said she hadn't been in contact with Sulkers for about 10 years, but added that some other relatives had gone by his apartment last summer.
"They knocked on his door and he didn't answer," Dyck said. "You assume he isn't home. You certainly don't assume he's dead."
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by Atomic Rooster:
funny stuffs happen
yeah, very funny indeed 
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These people are Americans. Don't expect anything meaningful or... uh... normalcy...
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Originally posted by gerbnl:
yeah, very funny indeed
funny as in weird
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
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Originally posted by gerbnl:
yeah, very funny indeed
No harm really done. I think its appropriate for it to be funny.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Join Date: May 2004
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2 years ?! 
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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Holy flaming ****! Talk about not having any family in contact.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally posted by d.fine:
2 years ?!
I agree!
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Neat! 
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waky waky!
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I live there. SuperChicken also lives somewhere nearby, brandon I thought.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I don't know about this. Seems unbelievable to me that people could just knock on his door for 2 years thinking he was away?
I'd like to know what his total wealth was, and what was being deducted? And who was deducting other than the banks?
If all is as shown, then this is an example of Canada making the USA look good. 
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" All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
Sun Tzu
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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My Uncle lived here before he passed on. I still get calls for him here from companies wanting to give him credit cars. I inform them that they need to update their info.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
My Uncle lived here before he passed on. I still get calls for him here from companies wanting to give him credit cars. I inform them that they need to update their info.
Tell them they can send me a credit car. I'd like a mini if they have it.
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"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
My Uncle lived here before he passed on. I still get calls for him here from companies wanting to give him credit cars. I inform them that they need to update their info.
You should steal his identity and then go shopping.
It's a good idea.
[taps nose]
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Yose.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by Yose:
You should steal his identity and then go shopping.
It's a good idea.
[taps nose]
Naw, I actually liked my Uncle.
Good guy. He had a stroke. I helped take care of him the last 2 years of his life.
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Originally posted by glideslope:
I don't know about this. Seems unbelievable to me that people could just knock on his door for 2 years thinking he was away?
I'd like to know what his total wealth was, and what was being deducted? And who was deducting other than the banks?
If all is as shown, then this is an example of Canada making the USA look good.
Oh please... how many stories do i need to drag up of youth violence, 12 year olds shooting their mothers in the head while they slept because they got grounded (just happened in Dallas), etc in the United States?
You are just going to have to face it, the USA is just as screwed up as the rest of the world (and some would say more so)!
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by James L:
You are just going to have to face it, the USA is just as screwed up as the rest of the world (and some would say more so)!
Just as? More than likely compared to the norm.
More so? Doubtfully.
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Don't forget the Mendon brothers (or however you spell their name) who shot thier parents so they could inherit their parents fortune.
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