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To: b4its2late
Same comment: No friends, lived automatically.

He was "paid" automatically as well: His bank account (that paid the electric bill) was either big enough that it didn't run out, but was small enough that his kids (if any!) didn't notice that they could have collected the will.

Of course, his postal clerk didn't notice the mailbox hadn't been emptied in a year??

Wonder how many times he voted for democrats.

7 posted on 02/17/2007 10:40:10 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Wonder how many times he voted for democrats.

LOL! Though LI is primarily Republican, but if he was a dem, I'm sure he voted many times on election day..... But it is kind of sad to think no one cared.....I blame that on the dems influence on our society today.

12 posted on 02/17/2007 10:43:10 AM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Too may unanswered questions ... mail... electric bill?

Bottom line is no one cared to look into these odd things.

Very sad.
16 posted on 02/17/2007 10:46:34 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
his postal clerk didn't notice the mailbox hadn't been emptied in a year??

If he had a mail slot in the door, the postman would never notice.

I agree that with w/automatic payments, no one would notice anything was wrong for a long time. However, my experience with older people is that they don't tend to use automatic payments. They like to either send out the bills or go directly to the utility. I don't understand it, but there you are. I had a fair number of elderly clients when I practiced law and you couldn't even get them to get direct deposit for the social security check, although now I think the gubmint is trying to strong arm people into doing so.

17 posted on 02/17/2007 10:48:31 AM PST by radiohead (They call me DOCTOR radiohead.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; b4its2late

I was thinking the same before I read your remarks...I think this story kind of illustrates how easily we can all become isolated from each other as our lives become increasingly automated. If I died in my sleep tonight, my coworkers would try calling me Monday, and somebody from work would swing by on Monday, lunchtime at the latest. I wonder how many telecommuters would just be written off, their employers assuming they just went to work for somebody else....


61 posted on 02/17/2007 1:17:36 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The key to the story is:
nobody cares about anything... except themselves


68 posted on 02/17/2007 2:25:34 PM PST by traumer
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

He could have had a mail slot in his door and if he received no large packages, the mail would just have piled up in his foyer.


83 posted on 02/18/2007 5:42:55 AM PST by Dante3
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