“For the love of friggin’ god and for the
last time, NO I AM NOT DEAD!!!”
It must get old trying to explain it again and again: “Look, I can show you, my feet aren’t even on backwards.” And.. “Go ask the cops, they’ll tell you I ain’t lyin’.” Maybe he should just give in and enjoy going around scaring the hell out of everybody.
Man Tries To Explain He’s Not Dead, Gets Nowhere
Is Raju Raghuvanshi alive or dead? Ask Raghuvanshi, he’ll tell you he is alive. But ask his friends and family, and they’ll tell you the man you just spoke with is a ghost sent to haunt them.
Believed by his friends and family to have died in prison, Raghuvanshi returned home earlier this month from his short jail stint to shouts of “Help! Ghost!” and the sounds of neighbors locking their doors in his home village of Katra.
“My family thinks I am dead,” he said in a phone interview Monday. “They will not permit me to enter my home because they think I am a ghost.”
Ostracized by the people of Katra, about 280 miles from Bhopal, he’s now living in a nearby village and struggling to prove he’s alive.
The best proof he had – that his feet were still properly attached, not turned backward as ghosts’ feet are thought to be – was dismissed by villagers.
Bring out your dead!
Bring out your dead!
Here’s one
Ninepence.
I’m not dead!
What?
Nothing — here’s your nine pence.
I’m not dead!
Here — he says he’s not dead!
Yes, he is.
I’m not!
He isn’t.
Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
I’m getting better!
No, you’re not — you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
Oh, I can’t take him like that — it’s against regulations.
I don’t want to go on the cart!
Oh, don’t be such a baby.
It’s a losing battle. The intelligent people will gradually be engulfed by people who believe in ghosts, ghouls, psychics and magic. Religious zealots of many persuasions are not far removed from this sort of stupidity.
If he says hes alive seeing is beliving,
“I see dead people… They don’t know they’re dead!”
If this were me, I would have the temptation to break laws, like walking around naked in public, and claim that I couldn’t be arrested because I was dead. Just to see how long it would last.
-=j=-
Wasn’t there an episode of Southpark where Cartman thought he was dead because he was being ignored?
Freaks. LOL
This would be in the same India where people are so hyperintelligent and fabulously educated that an adult American is like one of their 10 year olds? (ref: previous blog item on call centers in India).
Apparently, instead of ending up with one village idiot they ended up with an entire village of idiots.
hey! not all Indians are this crazy! this people are mad…
Strangely enough, as I stared reading this article, a Grateful Dead song (Uncle John’s Band, if you care) started playing on the radio. Just a little bit spooky…
“They will not permit me to enter my home because they think I am a ghost.”
Sounds like they don’t want to lose their house to the rightful owner! It is very convenient for them that they can play the “ghost card.”
It’s Doc Daneeka
If you’re looking for a literary reference.
If you haven’t read Catch-22 in the last ten years….go read it or re-read it, Very rewarding.
Geez, I’ve met a LOT of people who were functionally “dead”. No spark behind the eyes…no interests, no life, no love, nothing at all.
Maybe this guy DESERVES to have everyone want to think he’s dead!
Sorry Simran
As someone else already said, if an Indian claims that the average American adult is the equivalent to a 10 yr old Indian, this explains why.
I’d milk it for all it was worth; dead people don’t pay taxes.
I agree with Wofford. If people think you are dead, enjoy it. No taxes, no jury duty, no nothing. I would spend my days driving my family crazy. Can a ghost be arrested?
“The best proof he had – that his feet were still properly attached, not turned backward as ghosts’ feet are thought to be – was dismissed by villagers.”
Don’t laugh; A lot of Americans dismissed a lot of stuff in November of 2004 and re-elected Bush. Same crap, different scale.