Posted on 12/01/2010 5:47:35 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
Gary -- An Indiana businessman says he's decided to give the personal items he owns of a Marine who died in Pakistan to her family.
Mark Perko of Lake Station said he's been being treated unfairly after he earlier refused to return for free the medals, dog tags, funeral flag and other belongings of late Marine Sgt. Jeannette Winters of Gary.
Perko obtained the items when he bought a storage unit after its payments were missed four years ago.
Perko told the Post-Tribune of Merrillville and The Times of Munster late Tuesday that he would take a loss and give the items to Winters' brother.
Winters was the first female Marine to die in a combat zone when she was killed in a 2002 tanker plane crash.
Wow, what a guy!
Now send a Marine squad to “thank” him for his generosity.
Creep.
...an Indiana businessman.
No, Perko. You're being treated exactly for what you are; a despicable piece of zhit.
More here:
http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/672198221/m/6840004362001
Seems that he turned down an offer of $1,000 dollars, and Bears tix, as not enough. What a Prince.
puke
Owns a furniture outlet in Lake Station, yet claims he makes his living by buying overdue storage units. What an entrepreneur he is.
The price has already been paid... many times over.
Perhaps, he has been treated unfairly. It appears he can be shamed into doing what’s right. That’s quite a bit more than has happened to the government of this nation. We elect them, pay them handsomely, let them screw us and to tell us that we can’t even make our own decisions. We keep electing them and bitch at some jerk who takes advantage of the missteps of a family that cared so much about their loved one as to leave her property in an abandoned storage locker.
Yep, Perko is no role model, but as compared to the slime that we continue to elect, he isn’t that bad.
Sale of fallen Marine's possessions, medals, burial flag sparks controversy
So my question to the family is: why are you whining NOW, rather than having found a place for the woman's medals and such in your homes in 2002?
In Texas, one is not supposed to keep personal items such as bibles, family/personal pictures and that sort of thing when buying a foreclosed storage unit. Trouble is you never know what your gonna find in one of those units.I have had some very pleasing surprises buying out storage units.
Makes sense. He buys storage units, and sells any furniture in them in his store. People in the "inner city" would probably rather buy decent-quality used than particle-board "new" furniture that would fall apart in under a year.
IIRC, Her parent's home was broken into during her funeral. Her father put the items in storage as he thought that would be more secure. A few years later, he became ill, and let the payments lapse.
We would just take the furniture to the auction house if it had any good resale value. Here is the thing. Once it goes into default, the storage unit is gonna sell to some body if the rent isn’t paid. I have had some units I had to pay to get rid of at the dump.
“a Marine who died in Pakistan”
I didn’t realize we had officially had combat deaths IN Pakistan.
Two thoughts:
1) the guy is legally right, but morally wrong.
2) I’ll bet he’s “Amish”
What a first class prick.
Thanks for the info. It saddens me to read speculation based on absolutely nothing from freepers who ought to know better.
At the very least they should pay him what he paid for the storage unit.
These storage units are rented. When someone does not pay, the contents are sold at auction. why didnt the family come and get the stuff out of storage themselves?
Why did they wait for some one else to buy it, then bad mouth the poor guy who bought it? Now they get the stuff for free, and he is out money.
This man paid for ths contents at auction so he is out money. Why should he suffer a loss? Good on him for giving it to them.
The family should have offered to pay him what he paid at auction, at very least, for their son’s property. THAT would have been fair.
He did nothing wrong, and he is out $$$, and made to look like a bad guy.
The family should have just paid him and shut up and stop badmouthing him. They are low class for demanding it for free.
Thats mighty big of him. /s
Does this prick think that this stuff has a lot of money value? The flag is worth a few bucks on the market, but ribbons and dog tags? How much was he going to sell that for? Money money money, this Marine died so that he can earn his money. He just doesn't get it. Tag him and turn him loose in the middle of a bunch of FReepers.
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