Miscellaneous

Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains....

God bless this Reuters headline: "Man struggles to return from the dead."

Seems a man who drowned last August was wrongly identified by Polish police as a perfectly alive 38-year-old. Piotr Kucy showed up at "his funeral" and has since tried to get the government to change his official status from "dead" to "not dead," with little luck. But the article points out an interesting plus to this whole thing -- he doesn't currently have to pay taxes. In fact, a government registry official has put it quite bluntly: "This citizen does not exist."

Full post as published by Quiz Law on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).