Man goes on holiday, 'declared dead' on his arrival home
source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2971691.html?menu=
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If you go on holiday, tell people where you're going...Michael O'Neill wishes he had.
After taking a very last minute holiday to Australia he overlooked the fact telling people where he was going might be a good idea, but thought little of it. Until he returned to England...
On arriving back in Middlesborough, he found his mates mourning his death after neighbours had grown so worried they had reported him missing to the police. The police subsequently broke down his flat door but couldn't find any evidence to where he was.
Now comes the good bit, a week before Michael' return to the UK, his friends saw an obituary in the local paper and figured their worst fears had come true: an announcement for the death of Michael O'Neill, aged 50 who has left behind two brothers, Kevin and Terry.
Turns out the man that died was the same age, had the same name, and identically named siblings and because last0-minute jetsetter O'Neill didn't tell anyone he was off down under, they all thought he was dead.
Oopsy!
After taking a very last minute holiday to Australia he overlooked the fact telling people where he was going might be a good idea, but thought little of it. Until he returned to England...
On arriving back in Middlesborough, he found his mates mourning his death after neighbours had grown so worried they had reported him missing to the police. The police subsequently broke down his flat door but couldn't find any evidence to where he was.
Now comes the good bit, a week before Michael' return to the UK, his friends saw an obituary in the local paper and figured their worst fears had come true: an announcement for the death of Michael O'Neill, aged 50 who has left behind two brothers, Kevin and Terry.
Turns out the man that died was the same age, had the same name, and identically named siblings and because last0-minute jetsetter O'Neill didn't tell anyone he was off down under, they all thought he was dead.
Oopsy!
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purplefox
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"Turns out the man that died was the same age, had the same name, and identically named siblings"
Cripes.. what are the chances of that?? Especially just as he decides to go abroad unannounced... this sounds like a foiled fake-death attempt to me...
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purplefox
