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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! April 29, 2006 Town Mayor Steals Dead Marine's Life SavingsBy GreyhawkVia reader email - unbelievable - but true: Mayor Won't Give Dead Marine's Money BackI guess he figured dead Marines don't fight back. More details at the link. He won't have to worry if the town kicks him out as mayor - the Hilton would probably hire him the next day. Posted by Greyhawk / April 29, 2006 12:30 PM | Permalink 16 Comments |
November 26, 2010America@war [Greyhawk]
I think anyone who's ever pondered the "comment" option - once only available on blogs and bulletin boards, now ubiquitous on almost any web site - will appreciate this:
The so-called faculty of writing is not so much a faculty of writing as it is a faculty of thinking. When a man says, "I have an idea but I can't express it"; that man hasn't an idea but merely a vague feeling. If a man has a feeling of that kind, and will sit down for a half an hour and persistently try to put into writing what he feels, the probabilities are at least 90 percent that he will either be able to record it, or else realize that he has no idea at all. In either case, he will do himself a benefit. That's wisdom from the past, captured for posterity at the US Naval Institute, shared via the web on the institute's 137th anniversary. From their about page:
"The Naval Institute has three core activities," among them, History and Preservation: The Naval Institute also has recently introduced Americans at War, a living history of Americans at war in their own words and from their own experiences. These 90-second vignettes convey powerful stories of inspiration, pride, and patriotism. Take a look at the collection, and you'll see it's not limited to accounts from those who served on ships at sea, members of the other branches are well-represented. I'm fortunate to have met USNI's Mary Ripley, she's responsible for the institute's oral history program (and she's the daughter of the late John Ripley, whose story is told here). She also deserves much credit for their blog. ("We're not the Navy nor any government agency. Blog and comment freely.") We met at a milblog conference - Mary knew (and I would come to realize) that milbloggers are the 21st-century version of exactly what the US Naval Institute is all about. Once that light bulb came on in my head, I mentioned a vague idea for a project to her - milblogs as the 21st century oral history that they are. "Put that in writing," she said (of course - see first paragraph above!) - and here's part of the result. Shortly after the first tent was pitched by the American military in Iraq a wire was connected to a computer therein, and the internet was available to a generation of Americans at war - many of whom had grown up online. From that point on, at any given moment, somewhere in Iraq a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine was at a keyboard sharing the events of his or her day with the folks back home. While most would simply fire off an email, others took advantage of the (then) relatively new online blogging platforms to post their thoughts and experiences for the entire world to see. The milblog was born - and from that moment to this stories detailing everything from the most mundane aspects of camp life to intense combat action (often described within hours of the event) have been available on the web... And et cetera - but since you're reading this on a milblog, you probably knew that. And you know that milblogs aren't just blogs written by troops at war, that many friends, family members, and supporters likewise documented their story of America at war online in near-real time, as those stories developed. The diversity in membership of that group is broad, the one thing we all have in common is the impulse to make sense of the seemingly senseless, and communicate the tale - for each of us that impulse was strong enough to overcome whatever barriers prevent the vast majority of people from doing the same. Everyone at some point has some vague idea they believe should be shared - we were the people who, from some combination of internal and external urging, found and spent those many half hours persistently trying to write it down. But where will all that be in another 137 years? Or five or ten, for that matter. That's something I've asked myself since at least 2004 - when I wrote this:
Membership in the ghost battalion has grown in the years since, and an ever growing majority of those abandoned-but-still-standing sites are vanishing. Have you checked out Lt Smash's site lately? How about Sgt Hook's? If you're a long-time milblog reader you know the first widely-read milblog from Operation Iraq Freedom and the first widely-read milblog from Afghanistan are both gone from the web. If you're a relative newcomer to this world you may never even have heard of them - or the dozens upon dozens of others who carried forth the standard they set down. If you have a vague notion that something should be done about that, (a notion I've heard expressed more than once...) then you and I and the good folks at the US Naval Institute are in agreement. Preserving the history documented by the milbloggers is just one of the goals of the milblog project, the once-vague idea that we're now making real. And it's a big idea, if I say so myself - too big to explain in one simple blog post, so stand by for more. Likewise, it's too big a task to be accomplished by just one person. So if you're a milblogger (and exactly what is a milblogger? is a topic for much further discussion on its own) I'm asking for your help. All I'll really need is just a little bit (maybe just one or two of those half hours...) of your time, and your willingness to tell the tale. We've already made history, it's time to save it. (More to follow...) Posted 4:02 PM | Permalink |
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Heh. The family should take the judgement to the sherrif's office, and have them seize a couple of hearses to cover the debt. Should do that before his other creditors do that - he sounds like he owes money to bunches of people - and before he files bankruptcy again, and they become Just Another Creditor.
The mayor's mother must have been raised by womyn, that's with a big fat capital Feminism. Lie, cheat, steal She taught her son well.
Where in the hell can we contact his dickhead. (Pardon my french but I ain't politically Correct.) This twerp needs an attitude adjustment, or at least a loss of customers to his sacred house of illgotten gains. If this had happened down south there'd be a fraggin.
Hi Mr. Mudville.
I am a fan.
I have had my turn at the rough edge.
Please keep on posting.
(I am taking this chance as I have also posted about a Mayor)
Cheers,
KeesKennis
Contact information for the city administrators can be found here : http://www.fortlupton.org/departments.htm
Mayor Bostick can be contacted here
LuptonCouncil@aol.com
Write early and often, I know I will be.
Shameless!
My comments would be too nasty to post here. But I was wondering if there are any trees in that area strong enough for a lynching.
One quick addition to my previous post.
His office phone is (303) 857-6694
His Cell number as stated in the voicemail at his City Hall extention is (303) 994-1432 just in case someone can't wait until duty hours.
Speaking of Bostick's funeral hearses, I wonder if some of those Milwaukee Dem "activists" who slashed those GOP GetOutTheVote van tires in 2004 are still available for a little extra cash?
Jim Bostick
Bostick Funeral Home
806 Denver Ave
Fort Lupton
Colorado 80621
Phone: (303) 857-2290
LuptonCouncil@aol.com
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't he be in trouble for not following a court/judge's order that he give that money back. Another thing, why wasn't this swine (pardon offense to pigs) arrested for stealing? Again, correct me if I am wrong. I still think he is a pig, though.
I tried pinging you but, again, it's not working.
Here's the link : http://homefrontsix.blogspot.com/2006/04/unbelievable-mayor-steals-from-dead.html
- hfs
Where is the city council. They should have removed him as he has been convicted of this crime and others he owes money to as per the judgements. The council must be as spineless as he is.
Funeral costs battle
Roxye Arellano, (Bio) arellano@greeleytrib.com
May 5, 2006
Elis Sepulveda of Fort Lupton said the Fort Lupton mayor, who is also a funeral home director, has refused to pay her money awarded by a small-claims court for her son's funeral costs.
Mayor Jim Bostick, who failed to appear in court because he was in court-ordered alcohol rehabilitation, said it's all a misunderstanding.
The costs in questions arose from the funeral of Jason Sepulveda, 22, a Marine training at Camp Lejune, N.C. He died June 30, 2002, when the truck he was riding in as a civilian crashed into a tree. Bostick handled the funeral arrangements.
Jason's mother, Elis Sepulveda, said the Marines paid Bostick in full for the balance of her son's services, but he also took $980.49 of her son's savings and failed to return the money to her.
"My son always believed in what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong," said Sepulveda, 45, sitting at the kitchen table in her sister's home. "My son would be furious this is going on."
The military told Sepulveda they had to send her son's money to Bos-tick because his services had not been paid in full. But several days later, Bostick submitted a bill of $4,880 for funeral services. And records show the Marine Corps paid for services in full.
Sepulveda said that, because all costs for services were paid, she should have received her son's savings back.
"Every time I have to go through all of these papers, it's just a nightmare," said Sepulveda, looking at the documents provided by the Marines and spread out on the table.
After many failed attempts to collect the $980.49 from Bostick, she decided to sue him in small-claims court. Sepulveda and her husband, Robert, sought $7,500, the maximum amount in small claims. The claim included the savings amount of $980.49 and 10 percent interest multiplied by 24 months. They also asked for pain and suffering in the amount of $4,148.30, court costs and filing fees.
After Bostick failed to appear at a continuation hearing, the Sepulvedas won the maximum amount, $7,500.
"The media makes it look as if I stole $7,500, which is not true," Bostick said in a released statement. "People think I went into his bank account and took his money. That is not true."
Bostick claims a check for $900 was sent to him from a bank. At that time, he assumed it was to be used to pay for the rental fees for the use of the Fort Lupton Recreation Center, where the funeral was to be held. City records show Bostick was later refunded $200 for a damage deposit for use of the center.
But other itemized claims on Bostick's statement of funeral goods and services submitted to the Marine Corps has stumped the Sepulveda family.
On the invoice, Bostick charged the Marines $200 for clergy services. Sepulveda said the service was provided free by a family friend. On the same statement, he charged $20 for acknowledgment cards and $120 for memory cards. But Sepulveda's family members made the cards, and they have no idea why he would charge for them.
"My family did everything they could to help us out," Sepulveda said. "That's the way we are. They served the food, cleaned the kitchen and the hall. There was no extra charges to be added. If there was, he should have billed it to the Marines."
Bostick said things are getting difficult for him since the community found out.
"I'm not going to lie to you," said, crying. "I was in rehabilitation at the time of the continued hearing. The sad part is, the judge that heard the case is the one that sentenced me to rehab for 45 days. I'm not a bad person, but in this business, I bury babies and kids every day. Stuff piles up inside. I give free funerals all the time. Other funeral homes tell them to go to Jim. He'll care."
Bostick said he thought he submitted another bill to the Marine Corps and, when the $900 arrived, it was for extra expenses. But according to Marines records, there wasn't another bill submitted by Bostick.
"This is a misunderstanding," he said. "I will go back and re-submit a bill to the Marines. I will pay the Sepulvedas money owed to them. I've got to."
Bostick said things have gotten to the point that he and his family are receiving death threats.
"I plan on paying them the money but I'm not doing this to admit guilt," he said. "It's to stop the threats to me and my family. I have to stop it. ... If I had $7,500, I'd give it to her. It needs to end. Whatever I need to do, I'll do it."
Sepulveda said she hopes the community can understand she wasn't out to destroy him.
"I wasn't out to ruin him. He had every opportunity to take care of this," she said with tears. "It's an unsolved task as a mother. No mother would not fight. I'll fight with every last breath I take. I will stand. I will fight for my son."
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Maybe the IRS should check this douchebag and see if either he or his business claimed it as income and paid the taxes. The IRS loves to catch azzholes like this and bankruptcy can't save them.
Scumbag should be taken out and shot, but who'd waste the cost of a perfectly good round on his slimey azz?
Jason is my cousin. To our family it is not at all about the money, but what is right and owed to his mother. Jim Bostick was elected mayor and is supposed to see over finances in Fort Lupton!!! I think that is sad!!! Jim Bostick is a loser and I don't him!!! Thank you for your thoughts and e-mails to him!!