LOL! I know what you mean.
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Posted on 07/31/2007 3:28:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
SPRINGVILLE, Utah (AP) - The cemetery headstone for a teenager who died in a car wreck was repossessed after a $750 bill went unpaid. "That's just business," said Linda Anderson of Memorial Art Monument. "If we give every stone to everybody, we'd be out of business. They'd repossess your car if you didn't make payments." Brady Conger, 17, and two friends died when their car smashed into a sport utility vehicle a year ago Thursday.
Memorial Art said bills sent to one address were returned, and the business couldn't reach Brady's mother, who apparently had agreed last year to pay the balance. "The end result was that there was absolutely no one who I could talk to about this," owner Mike Anderson said.
Brady's classmates raised money to pay the bill, and the headstone will be installed again this week.
Yep.
WHy should this business not reposess? They provided a service and weren’t paid... you expect they should just eat it?
Its a sad situation, but how hard is it to come up with $750? or at very least work out payments with the company to pay them back?
Just a few hours a week at a part time job can pay this off.
Smooth move! Okay, he will have to through a year of being called the world's meanest man, but after that all he has to do is wait until someone else with the identical name and dates happens to boot it in his jurisdiction.
"Whenever you buy a house, whatever's in the ground belongs to you - whether it's gold or oil...or Claude Musselman.
Could have been. People in that area tend to bend over backwards to help each other because of the heavy influence of religion there. But sometimes people get burned. It took awhile for our family to get a proper headstone on a family grave because so many other expenses had to be covered first. Nevertheless, the bronze temporary headstone worked until we could pay up front. I don’t blame the stonecutter for taking drastic action if the family reneged on a promise. It doesn’t sound like it was possible to file a small claims action since the parents couldn’t be found to serve summons.
Okay, sorry for the delay in responding properly to your inquiry. Sleep and a big project get in the way. At any rate, emplace is a legitimate word and denotes (connotes?) a more deliberate or perhaps permanent installation. One places the plate on the table. One emplaces a walkway or building or such. I considered emplacing a more appropriate word because headstones are more than just placed on top of the cemetery grass. Does that answer your question? Could I just as easily have used placed, or installed? Yes. I just happen to like unusual words. I don’t presume to be an English expert but I love the flexibility of our language and try to use what I consider the most appropriate word whenever possible.
Good explanation! Thanks, and yes, it does indeed answer my question.
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