Postal employee on workers’ comp caught running Boston Marathon

yahoo ^ | May 18, 2012 | Eric Pfeiffer

[george76]

A U.S. District Court in Florida convicted a former Florida postal worker of health care fraud after she was caught participating in more than 80 long-distance races, including the Boston Marathon, all while taking workers' compensation for a back injury.

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However, photos and videos emerged showing Myers participating in the races, including a triathlon. And in what would ordinarily be considered good news, her race times actually improved after she made her initial injury claim.

Last October, a marathon "winner" in London was disqualified after it was revealed he had cheated by taking a public bus for a significant portion of the race he was supposedly running. Amazingly, it was announced this week that the disqualified winner, Rob Sloan, recently took a job working as a bus engineer.

[doc1019]

Stupidity knows no bounds. ;-)

[johngrace]

Amazing!

[EGPWS]

A U.S. District Court in Florida convicted a former Florida postal worker of health care fraud after she was caught participating in more than 80 long-distance races, including the Boston Marathon, all while taking workers' compensation for a back injury.

Quick, sue Boston for a marathon injury so you don't create a gap in your free money!

[tflabo]

Betcha dollars to postal stamps she’s votin’ for demoRats.

[rockrr]

I can understand their wanting to build a case but waiting and watching for 80 races?!

[upchuck]

Tip of the iceberg.

[Gay State Conservative]

My sister's back yard neighbor is a phony-disabled postal worker who does the most amazing types of labor in his back yard...some of it filmed by my sister and shown to a Post Office investigator.After seeing it the film the investigator basically said..."not nearly enough to change things".

Just another example of our victim culture.

[C210N]

her race times actually improved after she made her initial injury claim...

I suggest she next try to place or even win, in the next running of the Rosie Ruiz race.

[muawiyah]

I'd think someone would need to know what his disability is first.

Did he perhaps come down with Anthrax? One of the disabled guys isn't out of a hospital bed yet ~ some others are. Then there are the dead guys.

I suppose you could still work around the backyard or something, but that was pretty serious stuff.

I know several people who were exposed who ended up losing their teeth to the Cipro.

[Gay State Conservative]

I suppose you could still work around the backyard or something, but that was pretty serious stuff.

I understand that not everyone with a serious medical condition *appears* ill or is unable to do physical labor.But in the case of the guy mentioned in this piece and,BTW,my sister's neighbor the problem is back pain.Someone so disabled by a back condition that they can't work shouldn't be able to run 26 miles or do the kinds of things my sister has seen her neighbor do.

[EDINVA]

After the Boston Marathon they were likely able to document that she’d participated in the others; they didn’t wait and watch thru them.

[rockrr]

Yea, I figured that too but my way sounded more dramatic ;-)