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There was a case of a military veteran recently in the States who lay dead on his kitchen floor for up to three years. He was still getting some sort of pension
by prawn 7y ago
There was a case of a military veteran recently in the States who lay dead on his kitchen floor for up to three years. He was still getting some sort of pension/payment and the rent was getting auto-paid from that. They only found him because of a check on tenants in a building/area who weren't drawing any water.
In a case like that, I suppose a debit card or credit card with an automatic transfer would stay active for some time.
- eru 7y ago> They only found him because of a check on tenants in a building/area who weren't drawing any water. Wow. Some leaky faucets or automatic plant watering system would have kept him undiscovered for even longer.
- dijit 7y agoIt’s rare but not unheard of for people to be found decades after death. https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/29/inenglish/1572340728_798340.html https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/29/inenglish/1572340728_79...
- Gibbon1 7y agoMore humorously I remember reading about a German guy that forgot where he parked his car and it sat in an office garage for 20 years or something.
- marcosdumay 7y agoThere was a building in my city that was constructed in the 70's to be a shopping mall, but the owner got bankrupt in the meanwhile, and the building was repurposed into a parking lot that run for a couple of years. By 2014 is was imploded. There were around 30 cars still parked there.
- alexfoo 7y agohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-forgets-park-car-finds-20-years-later-frankfurt-a8058416.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-forgets-...
- gerikson 7y agoSimilar very recent case in Sweden: https://www.thelocal.se/20191119/man-found-dead-in-stockholm-apartment-after-three-years https://www.thelocal.se/20191119/man-found-dead-in-stockholm...