Romanian Court Rejects Man’s Claim That He’s Alive

[benjipwns]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/world/europe/romania-dead-man.html

BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian court has rejected a man’s claim that he is alive after his wife officially registered him as dead, saying that the decision cannot be reversed.

A spokeswoman for the court told local news outlets on Friday that the man, Constantin Reliu, 63, lost his case in the northeast city of Vasului because he had appealed too late.

The ruling is final.

Local news reports on the case said that Mr. Reliu had lost contact with his wife and family when he traveled to Turkey in 1992 for work.

Hearing no news from her husband for years, his wife got a death certificate for him in 2016.

The authorities in Turkey found Mr. Reliu this year with expired papers and deported him. But when he arrived in Romania, he discovered he had been declared dead.

Further details were not immediately available.

“I am officially dead, although I’m alive,” Mr. Reliu was quoted as saying in local news reports. “I have no income and because I am listed dead, I can’t do anything.”

And what's his supposed expertise that qualifies him to determine whether or not he's alive?

[Trent Dole]

"I'm dead."

[BisMarckie]

He should rob a bank, they don't throw dead people in jail

Being dead is probably the ultimate carte blanche to never be tried in court.
Unless you're Oliver Cromwell

[warcock]

[samfish]

Get this guy in quarantine and stop the zombie apocalypse now before it's too late. He's fucking patient Zero

[Rufus]

You know what they say. Too little to be legally dead, too much to, uh, actually be dead?

[Joe Molotov]

I hope he gets better.

[Eel O'Brian]

So according to their own technicalities, someone could rob or murder this man at any point and suffer no consequences, as no crime can be committed or prosecuted against someone who no longer exists. He might not want to continue broadcasting his predicament.

[jorma]

You will all be so disappointed when the death certificate eventually gets annulled and his life carries on as if this never happened.

[Great Rumbler]

So according to their own technicalities, someone could rob or murder this man at any point and suffer no consequences, as no crime can be committed or prosecuted against someone who no longer exists. He might not want to continue broadcasting his predicament.

Desecrating a corpse is still a crime, though. Well, in America anyway, I dunno about Romania.