Phone Company Sends Bill to Dead Man!

[Dreamer128]

From; http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80994,00.html

AUBURN, Mass. — A man's phone bill has followed him to his grave.

A local cemetery received a phone bill last week for David Towles at his correct address -- Hillside Cemetery, Evergreen Section, Auburn, Mass. 01501.

Towles was buried there in December 1997. He died at age 60.

Cemetery Superintendent Wayne Bloomquist says he was surprised to see the Sprint bill for 12 cents, including 10 cents for a call placed on Feb. 16, five years after Towles died.

"Our clients here don't usually get mail," he said. "I wondered if maybe we should start putting mailboxes on the monuments."

A call to Sprint's automated service on March 6 showed that charges on the unpaid account had inflated Towles' bill to $3.95.

The bill was turned over to interim Town Clerk Ellen Gaboury, who said she would hold on to it for a while.

"I'll have to," she said. "Mr. Towles' credit could be affected if it remains unpaid."

[Arvon]

Reminds me of the movie The President's Analyst, with James Colburn. All the worlds troubles are related to TPC. Funny flic.

[/)eathKiller]

That reminds me of the guy who's grave was struck by a down powerline and the electricity defribulated his stilled heart which only was beating once every 5 minutes, so slow that no one noticed and hew as burried alive, he then began to cry for help and the signals were conducte out of his metal casket and thoruogh the phoneline to all the houses attached [img]tongue.gif[/img] He of course suffocated before anyone figured out where the calls were comming from, unfortunetly...

[Reeka]

My father has been dead for fifteen years and he owed some money on a Sears account. We still get bills periodically from them about that.

[pritchke]

Originally posted by /)eathKiller: That reminds me of the guy who's grave was struck by a down powerline and the electricity defribulated his stilled heart which only was beating once every 5 minutes, so slow that no one noticed and hew as burried alive, he then began to cry for help and the signals were conducte out of his metal casket and thoruogh the phoneline to all the houses attached [img]tongue.gif[/img] He of course suffocated before anyone figured out where the calls were comming from, unfortunetly...

Quite an unlikely story. These days when you die they first put you on a table to drain your blood, and do other things to so you look nice for the funeral. When they place you in the box you are quite dead even if you were not before.

[Memnoch]

The same thing happened here in Australia - Telstra Corporation actually tried to sue someone who had passed away and hadn't paid their phone bill, which I think was about $60 or something. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

[Sir Degrader]

"The same thing happened here in Australia - Telstra Corporation actually tried to sue someone who had passed away and hadn't paid their phone bill, which I think was about $60 or something. "

Wouldn't they lose money from that? what with the lawyer fees and such.

[Animal]

A while back I received a notice in the mail from a collection agency. Since I have no financial problems, I'm a little confused, so I open it up.

It is a letter stating than I owe $0 to a company with no name, and I am to contact the agency at a 1-800 number, and give them my account number, which is blank as well.

I phone the agency, and as it turns out, they bought a customer list from a third party and some how, every customer on this lest was sent the very same notice. They appologized for their error.

After that, I got a copy of my credit rating from the CRB, and sure enough there was a derogatory entry from this very same agency for the very same letter. It has since been cleared up, and kudo's for the agency for dealing with it in a fast, effecient manner.

[harleyquinn]

Originally posted by Reeka: My father has been dead for fifteen years and he owed some money on a Sears account. We still get bills periodically from them about that.

FYI, you can file a complaint against Sears for this. Few years ago they fired all the people in charge of their collections company because they were either fined or had a class action suit against them (don't remember which, maybe some lawyers here could clear that up) because they were breaking the law by trying to collect from people who had claimed bankruptcy. They called me once about a card my boyfriend at the time had (my name was not on the card or anything, we were just living together) and tried to harrass me about it. They shutup real quick when I started quoting the law to them and told them that my mother works in a law office and if they ever try something like this again they would be getting a phone call from that office informing them of a harrassment suit. They never tried that again.
My cousin (a lawyer actually) had a bill that went to collections for $0.00. Took him months to get them to clear it up. Think how much that company wasted in phone calls and postage to collect nothing. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

[Night Stalker]

On a similar note ....

We just got a letter:

Leo KXXXXX (Deseased)
*********
*********

Dear Valued customer, as you know .......