[HN Gopher] What to do if the bank says you're dead
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What to do if the bank says you're dead
Author : catacombs
Score : 42 points
Date : 2020-11-16 06:22 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| My somewhat spotty knowledge of law in an alternate universe spun
| from merging film noir and the Marx brothers tells me that a dead
| man can't be convicted of bank robbery.
| treeman79 wrote:
| India has a zombie party.
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| Apparently corruption is so bad you bribe a government official
| get someone declared dead.
|
| There is no recourse for coming back to life.
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of...
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| On a more local front, a friends social security card lists him
| as female. After a months effort he finally gave up on correcting
| it.
|
| Heck my owns wife's birthday is wrong. By a few days. We inquired
| about it and were told to just go with it. Multiple years of
| effort would be required to fix it.
| maccard wrote:
| My surname has two common spellings, and I've learned that it's
| easier to just accept the misspellings, as I have valid govt id
| with both spellings on it (my drivers license says one, my
| passport says the other). I've tried to fix it repeatedly but
| never managed to...
| mmastrac wrote:
| This reminds me of an old (apocryphal?) story about someone who
| ended up mailing back a bunch of misaddressed email with
| "DECEASED" on it and causing major issues for someone. I cannot
| remember where I read this first.
| pizlonator wrote:
| Witcher 3 told me what to do: buy flowers for the receptionist
| and then have a fist fight with the bank's proprietor.
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