Row, row the Boat

A perfect example of the events in life that spark some desire to put opinion to word but used to be tempered by the construct of my last website. Is the story about a husband and wife who faked the husbands death while he was out in a canoe and then lived it up on the insurance money. That story was what sparked the existence of this newer, streamlined site.

I felt for that couple and I wanted to talk about that. That they could come up with a scheme that got by the fairly intricate mechanisms of government and then the even more intricate mechanisms of insurance and managed to swindle over two hundred thousand out of the great leviathan of commerce. I raise my hat to them.

Of course the morally afflicted will raise their eyebrows and smack their lips together, while purposefully shaking their head from side to side. But from my viewpoint the only thing they really did wrong, apart from getting caught, was to lie to their children. But even then we don’t know what the relationship was there. They might have been crap parents and had little contact with them. Or they might have been great parents and had little contact with them. Or they might just have been crap kids. If they were both good parents and great children and then the parents pulled this, and did not tell them. Then that was bad.

As for swindling two hundred thousand from the system, no problem. The system is fat and bloated and is not principled. Two hundred thousand in the great scheme of things is nothing. I have seen mediocre government departments blow that amount in one afternoon on useless equipment that was never used. Just to hit budget expenditure so they can get more the next year. That happens all the time.

Two hundred thousand really is no amount of money these days. What they did was wrong within the great scheme of laws required of society. But there is some part of my that wishes they could have got away with it. I think it is the thought of two people being able to stick two fingers up at the system and laughing into their penicolada’s.