Odd News

"Hello, this is me. Would you mind calling me a bit later? Right now I'm somewhat dead." If you don't like sarcasm and this kind of a humor, you may call this a very bad joke. But it's usually life that's joking like that whether you like it or not. One man from Poland was identified as a drowned man and was buried (what's an usual procedure when you're dead). The only trouble is, he's still alive. Polish man became famous because of being dead while being alive. And being alive can cause much more troubles that you would expect. Once you are formally dead, you cannot work, pay insurance, pay taxes and bills, you just don't exist. Or have you ever seen working dead man? (Corpse can do some haunting or things like that, but working? This doesn't fit to what zombies usually do). But there's not only funny side to the "dead man alive" case. It's kind a ridiculous when officials say that you don't exist even if you are in front of them, talking, breathing, arguing, explaining this strange situation and persuade them to fix it. Once the paper says that you are dead, there's no help. You can't fight the bureaucracy and dullness. All that dead-alive man from Poland can do is to struggle with bureaus and hope that somebody relevant will notice soon where's the difference between being dead and being alive. At the moment, at least he can pick up the phone like this "Hello, this is me. Would you mind calling me a bit later? Right now I'm somewhat dead."

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/od_nm/dead_odd_dc;_ylt=AlqrsnJn_98A0SWufPDwgwas0NUE

by Kamila Moravcikova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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