Man Calls Mom After He Was Reported Dead
By Marc • Nov 18th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the WeirdoGosh….Two in a row….Sorry ma’am. We know we told you your son was dead. Sorry you used all your retirement money on a deposit for the funeral. We’re also sorry to mourned for so long when your son wasn’t dead. These things happen though. Rest assured the official who made the ID card has been let go.
“OAKLAND, Calif. – Anthony Sheppard shocked his mother this week with a telephone call, a day after he was reported dead. ‘When he called me I thought I was talking to a ghost,’ said Verna McCowan.
Oakland police on Tuesday bungled the identification of a man shot to death after finding Sheppard’s identification card on the victim. Authorities alerted his mother of the shooting, and released the details to reporters.”
Sheppard told authorities he had lost his identification card several years ago.
UM….Right. So they identified a dead man using only a piece a of paper in his wallet. OK…..
Marc is a Catholic technology geek living in Tennessee. He blogs at Wild Tangents and is the host of the Catholic Vocations Podcast.
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