Man struggles to return from the dead

[cobalt1999]

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead.

Piotr Kucy, 38 and from the city of Polkowice in southwest Poland, was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days after his own funeral.

Despite pointing out the fact that he was alive to government officials, Kucy still remains dead in official records, stopping him from working and paying social insurance.

But on the bright side, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, he no longer needs to pay taxes.

"We are nearly through January, and my documents still say I'm dead," Kucy told Gazeta Wyborcza, adding: "It's a bit of a joke." But a registry office official was adamant about the situation. "This citizen does not exist," she told the paper.


I'm feeling better!

[villager]

1. Kafka much?

;-)

[Xipe Totec]

5. More like Hotblack Desiato

Hotblack Desiato is the ajuitar keyboard player of the rock group Disaster Area, claimed to be the loudest band in the universe, and in fact the loudest sound of any kind, anywhere. At the time when the main characters of the Hitchhikers Guide meet him, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Hotblack is spending a year dead "for tax reasons", though he is still psychically alive.

[villager]

7. forgotten about ol' Hotblack...

thanks for the reminder!

[fenriswolf]

2. I wonder

is it a plus to be officially dead? maybe he can get a stint in with hollywood playing a zombie.

[Bluestar]

3. Reminds me of an old MASH episode where Hawkeye was

declared dead by the Army. He had many of the same problems in that episode. But that was a sitcom and this is real life!

[cobalt1999]

4. I remember that episode.

You're right.

I'd be asking for my life insurance money if I was him.

[Raejeanowl]

6. Rumors of His Premature Demise

Have been turned into the Pollack joke of all time, with a new twist on the certitude of death and taxes.

[tekisui]

8. I thought it was going to be about Thompson or rudy911. nt

[cobalt1999]

9. They both stand a "ghost" of a chance.

[Javaman]

10. So given this new found info...

I can "die" only to come back later as a non-existanct citizen. I kind of like that idea.

I wonder how long the waiting period is to make sure one is listed as being "dead"?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I thought this post was going to be about Ghouliani