An Example of a Bad Organization Bureaucracy can Cause

January 29, 2008

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/od_nm/dead_odd_dc;_ylt=Ao99wJsAkqdWRgVuhZ9BvcCs0NUE)

Man struggles to return from the dead

Tue Jan 29, 9:09 AM ET

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.

(Writing by Barbara Sladkowska, editing by Peter Millership)

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  • 1. lissagirl  |  April 1, 2008 at 2:37 am

    Yikes! it reminds me of all the folks who’ve mistakenly ended up on the “no fly” list. Who knows when the feds will let them fly again?

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