Article: Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.

Those charges seem a little suspicious. Accessory after the fact? Is this really tampering? Maybe I guess. At any rate, this isn't really that bad of an idea for a couple of rednecks. Although, how farking hard is it to just call your boss and say you had a death in the family? If you work for an establishment that requires obituaries as proof for time off, you need a new establishment.

Not a very well thought out plan. And what exactly were they going to say when they returned to work?
"Oh, I was dead, but I'm feeling better?"

There are a few good reasons to fake your own death. Getting a day off of work isn't one of them.

how is something that you have to pay to have put in a newspaper considered tampering with records?

Simpsons did it.

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Although, how farking hard is it to just call your boss and say you had a death in the family?

They did, and they wanted proof. This was an ongoing thing.

mouser_inc

I'm with you... How exactly is putting a fake obituary in the newpaper considered tampering? The newspaper is the official source for deaths now? Wow...

that's just bad karma. If I were her son I'd be shiatting bricks right about now

These folks are also allowed to vote, drive cars and raise children.

That is the scary part.

molasses bad karma? That'll affect their re-incarnations. Ya'all come back now, y'hear!

I work for false obituary.

So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.

But trust me.... You don't.

I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.

This is how bad info on heapin' helpin' gets passed around.

If you dont know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do.

Cuz some Farkers belive anything they hear.

People....

Calling in Dead is just a joke.

\\Calling in Drunk is still Okay.

This is pretty common, at least the attempt. Found out when I was a secretery at a newspaper. Obituaries we printed only came from funeral homes. People came in with "obituaries" all the time and wanted us to print them. We would eventually say, "If you want it in the paper, you'll have to buy an ad."

I remember a woman who had taken off work for some funeral (not of a relative, just someone) but her boss was going to fire her unless she produced proof that she was among the "survived by." Since the funeral home didn't include her name, she wanted us to run an obit she'd written that included her name. She ended up buying ad space that cost a couple hundred dollars, far more than she was paid for one day of work.

That being said, a 33 yr old mother of a 17 yr old? Shnikees.

I heard this on the radio this morning... Apparently they had been calling off work for months because of the son's "illness", and they finally had to kill him off, I guess.

It's still messed up.

So...calling in sick just isn't good enough anymore?

Imagine being the son. Your mother keeps telling you, you must pretend to be dead. She shows you your obituary. One would start to wonder if Mom really wanted you around.

/expecting to see a Fark article about the boy at some point

Seems to me to be easier to convict them for theft by deception, since they stole from the company by getting paid for time they didn't deserve.

/O-BICH-u-aries
//Tush was the man

What's wrong with just saying you had the two bob bits? No one wants to ask a second question when you've had the two bob bits.

I'm not dead yet! I feel happy!

If this is tampering, I can think of dozens of journalists who might get a knock on the door by Johnny law.

"Just roll her old bones in here..."

farking jackass police. Bullshiat charges.

More gene pool chlorine please......

This is one case where the child should be allowed to kill his parents. Tit-for-tat, as it were.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead!

HARHAHRAHRHARHARHAHRAHRHARHAHHHHAHAAAAAA

/as seen at Spencer's gifts
//You don't have to be crazy to work here...but it sure helps!
///of all the things I've lost...I miss my mind the most

HAAHAAAHHAAHAH

edenza: This is pretty common, at least the attempt.

Second that. I was a little taken aback when the newspaper required a death certificate before they'd run the obit when my dad died.

My former employer was the reason other people had tried this.

In other news, lying to a NEWSPAPER is ILLEGAL. What the hell just happened to media outlets being seperate from the government and what not?

By the way, its illegal to lie to me, so watch the fark out what you say.

Putting something false in the newspaper is a crime?

/Newspaper editors start looking over their shoulders.

"two bob bits"??

Oh please explain that one in graphic detail. Whatever it means, I'd like to incorporate that in my daily vocabulary.

why didn't they leave it as "on life support?" They killed their own day-off goldmine.

Stupid.

jarbabyj: I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead!

HARHAHRAHRHARHARHAHRAHRHARHAHHHHAHAAAAAA

/as seen at Spencer's gifts
//You don't have to be crazy to work here...but it sure helps!
///of all the things I've lost...I miss my mind the most

HAAHAAAHHAAHAH

God. The people at my work say things like that and think they're being clever.

I never believed that people like that existed until I graduated from Uni...

that stupid son is a snitch
son of a biatch, sniatch

/ok, so i'm the only one that found that funny...
DAMMIT!

I could see if they filed for a death certificate or something (the article doesn't say they did) that they would get charged. But how can they get charged for printing an obituary?

Homer, when I asked you if you were going to use that dummy to fake your own death, you said 'No.'

\Oh no! He fell over the edge
\Oh good! He snagged that tree branch
\Oh no! The branch broke
\Oh good! He can grab onto those pointy rocks
\Oh no! Those rocks are breaking his arms and legs.
\Oh good! Those helpful beavers will save him.
\Oh no! They're biting him! And taking his pants!

That reminds me when my co-worker, Homer Simpson, pushed a dummy of himself off of a waterfall at the company picnic, and was ground up in the turbine infront of everyone, so he could get the day off. And Marge was like "but what are you going to say when you go back Monday". But as usual Homer had a plan for that too. Good times!

Newspapers don't take obit submissions from people off the street, they all come from the funeral home of the deceased. However if you write one in an appropriate style, the funeral home will submit what you wrote.

dtsanley and ropegun

Two bob bits refers to the condition that arises when you eat a dodgy curry, have what Johnny Cash once described as a "ring of fire" and spend all day on the can. Hence, I've got the "two bob bits".

Charlie Croker

Two bob bits refers to the condition that arises when you eat a dodgy curry, have what Johnny Cash once described as a "ring of fire" and spend all day on the can. Hence, I've got the "two bob bits".

"Two bob bits" = diarrhea/the runs/colon Blow/HBW/Monteczuma's Revenge/Texas 2-step/Hot Carl?

Such a funny language, the King's English.

"Two Bobbitts" I can see, maybe...

I started to wonder if I overdid it when my boss came up to me oneday ,days after I returned back to work.
Comes up to me with this folder scanning it over and says
"Jim just how many grandmothers do you have?"

/not bad karma,granny died before I was born
//I should get a new job
///I should start keeping logs of these things

Ahhh, Iowa.

We need an Iowa tag.

WTF? So if I write a letter to the editor that includes some questionable "facts" and they print it, can I be charged with tampering as well?

Lying to a police investigation is one thing, but lying to a newspaper? These guys should sue the sheriff's department into oblivion.