Son fakes mom’s death for time off
So, how far would you go to make up an excuse to get paid time off from your job?
Police say a Pennsylvania man advertised in a local newspaper that his mother had gone to the great beyond, according to an Associated Press report.
Brookville Police Chief Ken Dworek said Scott Bennett, 45, wrote up the obituary notice for The Jefferson Democrat because he didn’t want to get fired for taking time off. Bennett’s occupation wasn’t provided.
It wasn’t until relatives called the northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper to say Mom was very much alive, and to prove it, she showed up on the newspaper’s doorsteps.
The plot (no pun intended) landed Bennett in jail on a disorderly conduct charge.
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75 comments Add your comment
RGB
December 9th, 2011
10:59 pm
It’s a miracle–Mom’s alive!
Fire Scott and give his job to someone who’ll be committed to the job.
Give Scott unemployment, housing, and food stamps for 10 years and have him thank President Obama by going to the polls and cast a reliable Democrat vote.
Adios!
Viet Vet
December 10th, 2011
5:58 am
RGB, You’re fixation is causing you to percieve the object of your obsession into every facet of life. This is not about Obama, or politics, its about you losing touch with reality.
RADAR
December 10th, 2011
7:53 am
Obviously Scott was simply a MASH fan and was simply channeling his inner Maxwell Q Klinger.
I miss Col. Potter already.
Hot Dog
December 10th, 2011
8:00 am
RGB, you are still an IDIOT! Character, not President Obama, is this individual’s issue. Now you understand why morals and values are so important in a leader. This individual is just like Newt. He lies for self gratification. How sad you are that you can’t tell the difference between the two. Stop looking for someone to blame for your issues you create in your life. BLAME YOURSELF FOR YOUR OWN MORAL FAILURES!
Milli Vanilli
December 10th, 2011
8:02 am
I think RGB needs a hug and some attention. Poor child.
The guy at the mall
December 10th, 2011
8:05 am
RGB seems dumb.
RGB is dumb
December 10th, 2011
8:22 am
’nuff said
Ken
December 10th, 2011
9:01 am
While it is going too far morally to fabricate an obituary, I do understand this man wishing for more time off from work. The U.S. continues toward valuing a work-oriented culture, rather than leisure. It is not uncommon for workers to be subjected to 24/7 schedules with pagers, on call, etc. Time off is seen as something bad and unproductive. The fact is, the workplace asks too much of people, and I admire people who try to part from the sick work culture we’re in.
Walter Pickelnose
December 10th, 2011
9:35 am
I suppose, RGB, that if you stubbed your toe falling over your pile of beercans on the floor of the double-wide, that would be Obama’s fault too?
Becky
December 10th, 2011
9:44 am
RGB has a double wide??? wowser
John Abraham's Groin
December 10th, 2011
9:50 am
I had an employee once who had all 8 of his grandparents die. Then after he was assigned to a different supervisor, years later, I understand 3 more of his grandparents died.
Ella
December 10th, 2011
9:50 am
Why has the comment section become all about RGB? Didn’t your mother’s teach you to ignore the idiots of the world or you just feed their need for attention?
As for Scott (remember him? he’s the subject of this article), of course he went too far. But I do love Radar’s comment. Klinger did this sort of thing all the time. Problem for Scott is that he lives in the real world and should not only lose his job over this, but I think he also deserves a time out and maybe even a grounding from mom.
Mitzymy
December 10th, 2011
9:50 am
In one of my past work places, the company had to over schedule to make sure they had enough employees there. It was a glass factory where they never shut down. The company had a “go home list” that they would utilize when they knew they had enough people to run the shifts. The first signer would be the first to go. Many employees would arrive at work an hour before their shift starting time to sign the “go home list”.
Jim Tavegia
December 10th, 2011
10:01 am
Stupid yes, but jail time? If we locked up everybody for being stupid…well, you get the idea. How many members of congress would be their right now, including some living in a big white house. If his boos wants to fire him that is his business.
Andrew
December 10th, 2011
10:08 am
So does the half warewolf and half vampire defence apply here?
KimZ'sPackage
December 10th, 2011
10:29 am
Arrested for posting a fake article in the news paper? Damn, I can’t believe half of the AJC staff isn’t behind bars.
Barney Fife
December 10th, 2011
10:45 am
Criminal charges for writing something in the newspaper? See, there’s this thing called the constitution. We’d all be better off if more cops could read it and then perhaps enforce it. This could have just as easily been a prank, which should not rise to the criminal level either.
Buddy
December 10th, 2011
10:47 am
RGB is RIGHT!
Maybe Scott can marry the woman in Detroit with 6 kids who just traded her house for a car! She has 6 kids and is on disability! It must pay well because she could trade her house for a car because she has a new house to move her 6 welfare checks, I mean kids, into! She’s big as a cow too, that must be here disability!!!!!!
Trebor
December 10th, 2011
10:49 am
Since when did posting a fake obit become an arrestable offense? SMH.
Dawg79
December 10th, 2011
10:55 am
“I need a week off, my hamster died”…….
RGB is right
December 10th, 2011
11:00 am
Although the person is also at fault for being lazy and irresponsible, it is still the Obama way once he gets fired. He will get his money, food stamps, and housing and wonder why he ever got a job in the first place. Just like the lady who just received 850k and still gets to collect unemployment. It’s a joke and everyone who cant see that needs to look a little closer before they say RGB is wrong!
RGB Fans
December 10th, 2011
11:08 am
To all you RGB fans: Unemployment, Food Stamps and the like were not INVENTED when Obama became president. This has been happening for longer than most of us can remember. Your bias is showing. What about all the folks on those same programs while Bush I and Bush II were president.
KimZ'sPackage
December 10th, 2011
11:15 am
@RGB Fans…………Were there More of Less people on govt. assistance with Bush W. or Obama?
Real American
December 10th, 2011
11:45 am
KimZ did you consider how many jobs were lost under Bush W.?? Of course you didn’t,
KimZ'sPackage
December 10th, 2011
11:54 am
Real American…………have you considered how many JOBS will never come back because of Obama? How bout how Obama has us in so much Debt your Great Grand Kids will be choking on it.
Honest Ingine
December 10th, 2011
11:55 am
That was the 3rd time he used that excuse….lol
Ang
December 10th, 2011
11:55 am
Scott was fired for cause, not laid off, and would therefore not be eligible for unemployment. Employers pay unemployment insurance to the state, and even if he appeals his unemployment case, the employer has ample printed and living evidence that he lied.
Reason
December 10th, 2011
12:19 pm
1 – RGB is an idiot.
2 – Scott is an idiot.
3 – Obama is an idiot.
The Voice of Reason…..
jay jay
December 10th, 2011
12:35 pm
people pull this cr@p in offices all the time and moron managers and human resources never ask for any proof..the employee takes a week off with pay
US CITIZEN
December 10th, 2011
12:44 pm
now i thought the article was about a man trying to pull a fast one on his job. Now where he took it too far but I people have used that excuse since the beginning of time. As for Obama, people please, I didnt vote but I am smart enough to know that it did not take these last couple of years to put us in this debt we see today. If you want to blame someone blame the right person. It was Bush who put us in this mess then left, not OBAMA. If anything, he is trying to give the real middle class workers a break financially. More than I can ever say the republicans or the BUSHS ever did for america. If you look at their trend, we only went in debt and had wars. We lost more soldiers in this last war in another country then all the other wars combine. Do you homework before speaking others into the ground. If you just dont like OBAMA or the fact that he’s African American then don’t. But don’t slander a man for you own opinions.
The Witness
December 10th, 2011
12:49 pm
I don’t understand why there are so few jobs in the USA, and yet everyone with a job seems to be over worked….
The Witness
December 10th, 2011
12:52 pm
To be honest, I think about a 5th of Americans are crazy these days, no joke
HR Expert
December 10th, 2011
1:02 pm
As a Business Owner in a small Georgia town, I got acquainted with the local Funeral Directors. With a phone call or two, I can get the facts. Also, I wish I had a quarter for every time that an Employee missed work because they were ‘throwing up blood.’ I have no aversion to firing the irresponsible.
Marshall
December 10th, 2011
1:15 pm
It’s Bush’s fault.
It’s Bush’s fault that my car won’t start.
It’s Bush’s fault that I have morning breath.
It’s Bush’s fault that my grass needs to be cut.
Thank God for Obama! He’s saving the day!!!
MyNameisQ
December 10th, 2011
1:21 pm
Why exactly is this news? Any college professor will tell you this sort of excuse happens all the time. I see 3-4 “dead” relatives a semester. Usually grandparents, but sometimes aunts/uncles and occasionally just an unspecified “friend.”
Hmmmmm
December 10th, 2011
1:25 pm
Actually U.S. citizen…..it DID take us two years under that P.O.S. in the White House to get this much debt. The H.N. has accrued more debt in 3 years than Bush 2 did in 8.
jarvis
December 10th, 2011
1:27 pm
So ironic the amount of work the lazy will put in in order to avoid work.
RGB IS RIGHT
December 10th, 2011
1:28 pm
100%!
I'm amazed
December 10th, 2011
1:33 pm
Mr. Obama would have to be extremely smart at destroying an economy and creating a mess upon immediately entering office. whew! Do you mean to tell me he was able to destroy an entire system before he even moved into the WH—hum…really smart fellow if he was able to create such havoc and do it quickly…I only thing I see him doing that a complete idiot would do is to run for President of a broke down United States
Halsey
December 10th, 2011
1:34 pm
They arrested him for disorderly conduct? If that’s the legal ramifications for lying, there should be jails around the country filled with politicians.
Billy Ray Valentine
December 10th, 2011
1:45 pm
I CAN SEE !!! I HAVE LEGS !!!
overworked
December 10th, 2011
1:46 pm
Maybe if he worked where I do he would be caught by day two! If you are out for more than two days you have to apply for family and medical leave which requires alot of documentation and if you don’t produce it you are fired! So no matter how sick you may really be you better have the paperwork done and have it to personnel. Also you have to use your leave time which is funny cause you build up alot cause you never get to take it! And quess what I work for the government!
change
December 10th, 2011
1:59 pm
RGB:
Don’t forget the employer should habe to pay scott a settlement for unfair termination.
The stress of losing his job has caused him to be unable to seek new employment.
Neveronthebooks
December 10th, 2011
2:12 pm
The reason the debt went so high under this President is because the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Medicare prescription drug plan (btw instituted by Bush 2) were never added to the debt. All of it was “paid” for with borrowed money. After President Obama took office, he ordered it put on the books because not having it on there created a false sense of security. We believed we were waging two wars and giving tax cuts and not adding to the debt? This is why the debt has grown over $4 trillion under President Obama. President Bush left office without ever picking up the tab on his watch.
Jason
December 10th, 2011
2:33 pm
Only time people really care about kids is when the talk of debt and abortion, its homeless kids and kids that needs adopting that no republican ever care to talk about. Lets cut education and give the super rich a tax break. Whether you like President Obama or not The republican party dont give a damn about you until its time for you to vote.
Democrat Humility
December 10th, 2011
3:11 pm
Democrats never think they are wrong. Look at the mess we are in… I’ve never heard a democrat or an african american say Obama has ever made a mistake. I’m not sure I trust those people to be objective when they go to the polls. Even now, everything is Bush’s fault apparently.
Turn the tables and ask a conservative. They acknowledge mistakes made by presidents that they supported.
Ella
December 10th, 2011
3:26 pm
Good grief – reading all these posts makes me realize that I live in a state with idiots. I’m calling 2 Men and a Truck. I need to get out of this place and into an area where people can actually have a coherent, meaningful thought in their heads. Most of you have serious issues.
guess what!
December 10th, 2011
3:37 pm
I agree with you RGB! DON’T CARE WHO, JUST NOT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED MY HOUSE TO SELL.
Reasonable Man
December 10th, 2011
3:38 pm
Disorderly conduct charge? Absurd to waste tax dollars and understaffed police force to arrest and jail this man.
Kennesaw Dave
December 10th, 2011
3:42 pm
What an idiot!
If you’re worried about getting fired for taking time off, that probably means you’re already on your way out for other screw ups or you’ve already taken too much time off or played hookey from work too many times already. You would think in this day and age people would be smarter than that but not this guy apparently.