Times-Picayune: Elderly couple’s lives in limbo over unpaid $1.63 tax bill
July 15, 2007
Times-Picayune: Elderly couple’s lives in limbo over unpaid $1.63 tax bill
In 1996, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office mailed a paltry $1.63 property tax bill for the Slidell-area home of Kermit and Dolores Atwood that never reached its destination.
The seemingly innocuous, misaddressed bill was the start of a bizarre legal ordeal that threatens to leave the elderly couple homeless and now stands at the door of the state Supreme Court.
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This James A. Lindsay II needs to seek emergency surgery to repair his heart!
That article is a frightening reminder that our countries are sometimes run not unlike the fictional Brazil.
It’s hard to figure out what people like Lindsay are thinking in this situation. Same way with the judge who sued the dry cleaners for $65 million for a lost pair of pants. Surely they must realize that when their story gets out, all reasonable people are going to denounce what they’re doing. I suppose the love of money can cloud one’s judgement…