Fake Obituary Sends Mom to Grave. Bad Son Hall of Shame
"Pat Bennett, 71, of Brookeville passed away..." That sentence kicked off Scott Bennet's master plan to get paid time off for bereavement at his job at a local factory.
In fact Pat Bennett, 71, was just fine, until she found our her son had written her own obituary and sent it to be published in the local paper. According to Police Chief Ken Dworek, she's now "rather upset."
Scott's charcoal-hearted reasoning is dumb but it isn't totally crazy: he didn't want to get fired for taking time off so he offered up his mom to the gods of playing hookie. Not a good idea, son.
After frantic calls from friends who'd seen the obit, Pat realized she needed to convince people she was still alive. So she marched into the newspaper offices where her death notice was published to get to the bottom of this gruesome mistake. When police tracked the submission back to her son, the 45 year-old Pennsylvanian was arrested for disorderly conduct, for lack of a better category to slot this crime into. Really, has anyone ever done this before (not counting Larry David)?
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