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“If we had proper mental health services in this country, we could have been notified”
Gray’s siblings said they hadn’t heard from him since their mother’s funeral in 1990, when he disappeared without a word. It wasn’t clear whether Gray was living under the overpass, where transients have been known to camp…
Gray’s older brother, Jerry, said Tim had worked as a cowboy and lived in the Rocky Mountain states. “He was homeless essentially. If we had proper mental health services in this country, we could have been notified and known to do something.”
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Should be “Gee, If I had stayed in touch with my brother, guess maybe he wouldn’t have died homeless under bridge”…
Fricking idiots…always somebody else’s fault…
Tim Zank on December 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM
Huh?
Blake on December 30, 2012 at 5:50 PM
The government should be doing something!
davidk on December 30, 2012 at 5:50 PM
could have, should have whatever. Sounds like someone blaming others.
CW on December 30, 2012 at 5:51 PM
LOL– That was my first thought as well.. When does personal responsibility and family responsibility kick in? Perhaps if he knew where his brother was; he could have gotten him help faster than some anonymous mental health professional.
melle1228 on December 30, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Why is her last will contested?
Schadenfreude on December 30, 2012 at 5:54 PM
It doesn’t seem like anybody was looking for him until the will became an issue. Since no one had seen the old lady for 40 years and she cut them all out of the will, they don’t see like a close family to begin with.
Blake on December 30, 2012 at 5:54 PM
Hey, I’ve got an idea. Pay some detectives out that $300M and have them track your brother down.
Here’s a question. Did the estate trustee do anything more to find this heir to $19M than put an ad in the paper and inquire if relatives might know where he is?
$300M in assets and they’re still rent-seeking.
Dusty on December 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM
CW on December 30, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Okay, they had detectives look for him. I’d love to know what they shelled out to do that.
Dusty on December 30, 2012 at 6:01 PM
CW on December 30, 2012 at 5:58 PM
What is your insipid point?
It was her last will. Otherwise it w/b like the laws in Germany, fools.
Schadenfreude on December 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Ha! She was right! She checked into a hospital in 1988 and stayed there until her death in 2011.
Blake on December 30, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Hmmm…her doc may have milked her for $$$: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/heiress_doc_an_operator_CjBV6vY7ttpPxUK1olT2rJ
Blake on December 30, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Just pointing out the obvious for the idiots.
CW on December 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM
It’s naive to think it’s easy to stay in touch with mentally disoriented transients. A fellow who made off with $25k of mine, a past and possibly present drug addict, is presumed dead or soon to die by his own sister, who says she thinks he may be somewhere locally here in New Mexico, but that’s her pure supposition, and I have otherwise no good reason to doubt her good faith. But she takes an even more jaundiced view of his life than I do, and probably has no urge to spend her own searching for him. Nor, incidentally do I, having long since written the financial loss off to bitter experience.
That said, it’s equally foolish to imagine government in an increasingly libertarian society would care more than a man’s family whether he lives or dies.
Seth Halpern on December 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Because her family is participating in “The New American Dream”; these are The New (and Improved, Balkanized) United States of
AmericaObama, “The Land ofOpportunityEntitlement!“ShainS on December 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Agree fully with your sentiment when the emboldened words are removed.
Perhaps I misunderstood your point or you miscommunicated it … but what is this “increasingly libertarian society” you mention, and where can it be found?
Perhaps you meant to say “… government even in an increasingly libertarian society …”?
ShainS on December 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM
@ShainS: Point taken. Though I would substitute especially for even .
Seth Halpern on December 30, 2012 at 6:55 PM
Just ban crazy people – - – problem solved.
Pork-Chop on December 30, 2012 at 6:58 PM