November 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Did you hear about this?
A 74 year old blind woman was sent a letter by the city of Attleboro, Massachusetts, stating that a lien would be placed on her home if she didn’t pay her overdue water bill.
The worst thing about this? Her overdue bill was only 1 cent … yeah, that’s right. She owed the city one penny so they were about to put a lien on her home if she didn’t pay up!
Geez, I wonder how hard the city of Attleboro is on real criminals!
Isn’t that disgusting?
Eileen Wilbur told the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro that the letter sent her blood pressure soaring.
City Collector Debora Marcoccio says the letter was among 2,000 sent out.
She says a computer automatically prints letters for accounts with an overdue balance, and they are not reviewed by staff before being mailed, she said.
The letter warned of a lien and a $48 penalty if the overdue bill is not paid by Dec. 10.
The charge was from the previous fiscal year, which ran from July 2007 to July 2008.
Wilbur’s daughter, Rose Brederson, who discovered the bill in her mother’s mail, called the situation “ridiculous.”
But she said her mother, who has lived in the home since 1959, would likely end up paying the penny.
I think the city needs to review their billing process! Imagine being threated to have a lien on your home for a 1 cent bill!
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October 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Did you hear the story about the woman from Utah who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans?
The Arkansas company which makes the beans offered the woman $100 if she pledges to not take legal action. The official letter from Allens Inc of Siloam Springs, Ark., describes this as a gesture of good will.
Good will my butt! Marianne Watson isn’t interested in their offer stating “I won’t sign it under any circumstances,”.
She was never interested in taking legal action, but she did want to “put enough media attention on them that they either withdraw those cans or do something other than what they’re trying to do, which is shut me up.”
Watson was cooking lunch for two sons Sunday when she said she found a severed mouse head in a can of Allens Cut Green Beans, which had been purchased at a Wal-Mart store in American Fork. Nothing was eaten.
Allens spokesman James Phillips said the mouse probably was picked up during the harvest and did not originate in the canning factory. He called it an isolated incident.
“We apologize as much as we can, but we also do everything known from a technology standpoint and personnel standpoint to prevent it from happening,” he said. “But inevitably, occasionally, things like this occur.”
A recall is not necessary, Phillips said.
“This would not reach the level of exposing people to illness because the product is rendered commercially sterile,” he said in a phone interview. “Every can is cooked to a predetermined temperature and time.”
Watson said she may have the mouse remnants and green beans tested. She has refused to return them to the company.
“I was thankful I had a little soup earlier because I couldn’t eat after seeing that,” she said.
Isn’t that disgusting?
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August 31st, 2007 at 6:00 am
What’s for dinner? “My husband!”
Malaysian police arrested a woman whose husband was found chopped into 11 pieces and stuffed into a refrigerator in their posh apartment.
The remains were discovered months after the murder when the place was sold and the new resident moved in to find a disgusting odor.
I wonder what the man did to displease his wife? I’d better be a little more careful around my own wife!
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