Damn family . . .

This story in the G&M about a New Brunswick man's creative attempt to outrun legal problems by dying and then being undone by his relatives is worth the 2 minutes to read: Fake obituary fails miserably to solve man's debt problems. Gotta admire the chutzpah though. A snip:

In September, four days before Mr. Martin was scheduled to appear in court to face the fraud charges, he wrote and faxed his own death notice to L'Acadie Nouvelle, the francophone daily based in Caraquet, N.B.

Posted by Grayson at November 18, 2004 08:23 AM