Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
The woman lost her kitten, people! That's just wrong!
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Woman Blames Newspaper Typo For Theft Ad In Lawrence, Kan., Paper Had Wrong Address
UPDATED: 3:39 pm EDT August 2, 2005
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- A Kansas woman who had her possessions stolen blames the city's newspaper.
Kris Bryan said the Lawrence Journal-World printed a mistake in a street address, causing her apartment to be cleaned out by thieves, reported KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Mo.
Bryan said she returned home after work one day and saw strangers loading up her belongings into their vehicle. When she asked what they were doing, they showed her a classified ad in the newspaper. The public notice stated that all things at 1319 Tennessee St., Apt. 3, would be thrown away if unclaimed.
"It was just a real shock," Bryan said. "I was freaking out. I told them that's my apartment -- there's been some mistake."
It was a one-digit mistake -- the newspaper ad should have read 1339 Tennessee St., the television station reported. The ad was placed because a woman in that home passed away and no one had claimed her belongings.
Bryan said the people she confronted returned her things, but her TV, DVD player, movies, furniture and a 7-week-old kitten had already been taken from her apartment.
"I was crying, bawling," Bryan said.
She said she wants the newspaper to pay $3,500 for the stolen items, but that can't replace her lost kitten.
"Sometimes you can't get away with your mistake, especially when someone gets hurt because of them," Bryan said. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Is this commonplace? I have never heard of someones place being opened up for public ransacking just because the deceased had no relatives to claim it? I thought things like this would go to an auction?
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
When I was in college, if you moved into an apartment and the previous residents hadn't moved out, the landlord would tell you to just throw everything out on the lawn. Most of September, there were guys driving around in trucks picking shit out of lawns.
Personally, I never did that b/c the landlord always refused to change the locks on the apartment, and I was scared of retaliation.
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B wrote:
When I was in college, if you moved into an apartment and the previous residents hadn't moved out, the landlord would tell you to just throw everything out on the lawn. Most of September, there were guys driving around in trucks picking shit out of lawns.
Personally, I never did that b/c the landlord always refused to change the locks on the apartment, and I was scared of retaliation.
I moved into a house one year in college. It was pretty much a community home and housed about 8-9 people, and there was junk there from 10 years of students leaving shit behind. Nothing was thrown out and the landlord wouldnt let us throw it out. Fucking disgusting, but it was a huge house and the mess was contained to a few unused rooms.
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Nice.
Whatever. Welcome to News & Debate.
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