Sunday, November 27, 2005

I'd say cut the loss

There are black sheep in every family. No one seems exempt for this fact.

We happened to hear about a horrible situation that was uncovered by a friend.

Our friend (GZ) is a retired gentleman. GZ recently received a couple collection notices recently. He looked at the paperwork only to question them all. He didn’t know anything about these two accounts. He hadn’t incurred those costs, which were about $10k.

GZ made some calls. It turns out that his youngest son (BZ) was behind it. BZ admitted to creating those two accounts and running up those credit charges. Can you believe it? He stole his father’s social security number! BZ said he’d pay back his father back. With what? He created those accounts because he didn’t have money. Oy!

GZ dug around for more information. Turns out there were 6 accounts in total that didn’t actually belong to him. SIX! The total tally on the charges was somewhere around $60k. And BZ only admitted to those two accounts. Talk about being disappointed in your own child.

Now GZ is contemplating with the notion of selling his current home and moving himself and his wife across the country. Moving away from the drama that goes along with the family that lives in the same city he does. Moving away from the people who have been causing him to have problems in his retirement years.

Now what do you think about it? Can you believe that GZ’s son did that to him?

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