Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 11/30/2010 7:10:30 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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The personal effects of Sgt. Jeannette Lee Winters, a Gary native, are being held by a Northwest Indiana businessman who found himself at the center of a public firestorm this week when he told the Winters family that if they wanted the mementoes back, they'd have to pay for them.
"I don't want to be in the position where I'm the bad guy. I may sell it, I may keep it, I may give it away," said Mark Perko, a used furniture salesman who purchased the contents of the Winters' family storage locker four years ago.
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Many of Winters' personal items, including military records and medals, dog tags, photographs, a letter from then-President George W. Bush, and even the flag servicemen draped over her coffin on its return from Afghanistan, were kept in a storage locker the family had rented after their daughters' death. When the family patriarch, Matthew Winters Sr., suffered a stroke about five years ago, payments for the locker lagged and the storage company, as is typical, put the locker's contents up for bid.
Perko, a Hobart, Ind., resident, makes his living buying and selling items at estate sales, garage sales and storage locker liquidations. After buying the items around 2006, Perko was unsuccessful in reaching the Winters family, he said. So he stashed them in the back of his furniture store until last week, when a non-profit organization announced a new homeless center for female veterans in Gary would bare Sgt. Winters' name.
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
What a creep. I can’t complete my thought for they’d surely be deleted.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
Perko refused the $1000 and Bears tickets.
Perko has moved beyond piggish.
The person who owned the storage unit? He/she should store the items indefinitely?
The person who bought the items? He/she should store them for the family?
It's easy to call others scum-suckers when they don't donate their money.
Farmer offered him $1,000 and four Chicago Bears tickets to each of the team’s two remaining home games this season. Perko turned him down, but declined to name his price, either to Farmer or the Winters family.
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Hmmmm...
I could see Perko’s side until I read that.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
The family offered him a lot of money. How much does he really think service records and a flag cost? I think he is extorting money from this family and hopes that they raise their “bid” to thousands and thousands. What goes around, comes around in one form or another and I hope this guy gets his return>
You have no idea what he paid for the contents of the storage bin. Why do you say he bought them for a song?
That is your bias, it is not reality.
If the family so valued their daughter’s things, why did they leave them in the storage bin for years.
We really don’t know the details or the motives here.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
So, is he a doctor or perhaps a lawyer? Maybe he sells insurance.
Some POS jackholes just need an ass-kicking.
Are they wanting all the contents of her storage unit or just her personal military items? I could understand him keeping general items, but he’s a big jerk if he won’t hand over the flag, presidential letter, etc. to the family.
Here’s an FB page dedicated to Mark Perko:
Mark Perko is a Douche
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mark-Perko-is-a-Douche/149078925139498
There could be winners. The family if they could get her personal military items returned and Mark Perko for doing an honourable thing.
Naivete? Speaking of which, newspapers pander to the lowest common denominator. That’s how they sell their product. They rarely give the entire story. They rarely give an unbiased account.
Re people who earn their living buying foreclosed houses - would you rather nobody bid on the houses so the former ‘owners’ owe the entire amount rather than the difference between what they owe and what gets sold at auction?
Centuries ago, during the Revolutionary War the revolutionaries took over the homes and farms of those who stayed loyal to the king. In some instances the neighbors refused to bid on the confiscated houses of their neighbors. That type of integrity is uncommon in this day.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Maybe they were in a storage locker because her family had a hard time dealing with her death, especially since it was a traumatic death. My best friend lost her husband in Iraq and it was very hard for her to deal with it for a long time. People grieve in different ways and maybe it was easier for them to put the reminders of her death away...out of sight out of mind type of thing. The point is he was offered money, quite a bit and tickets, and he refused. His motive is obviously a lot of money.
Sgt. Winters' family put them into storage for safekeeping after someone broke into her father's home during her funeral. Sgt. Winters' brother said that their father became sick, causing him to miss the payments.
Maybe. My experience with newspapers has been that they like to embellish facts and arouse emotions. We’ll never know the true story from a newspaper account. The guy could be a real louse.
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