bank repos wrong house, gets rid of property, refuses to make restitution

[haele]

50. Most of the time those items are just thrown in a dumpster.

And/or the people who actually went into the house to clear it might have five-finger discounted any items they saw and liked, but since the people hired to clear the house are usually minimum wage day-laborers, the family treasures, irreplaceable antiques, family documents, Fluffy's (or Mom's) ashes, Grandpa's WWII Medal of Honor and Purple Heart, Great-Great-Great-Grandma's china that was rescued from the burning of Atlanta - and other items that might also be worth something - ended up in the dumpster along with the Laz-E-Boy, the mattresses, and the DVD collection. Perhaps this lady's jewelry and any coins in the piggy bank were saved from the dumpster, but chances are even those items are far gone.

Being someone who doesn't believe the worst of people and consider those foreclosed on as rat-scum slackers, I would have hoped that when they broke in and noticed it looked as if someone was still living there with no apparent planning to move out (as in, this was fully furnished house that wasn't trashed and half-emptied like most abandoned foreclosures are), they might have double-checked find out what was going on and then held off until they could get to the resident/owners of the stuff to "force a move" with them present. You know this wasn't the first time something like this happened...heck, people who don't have mortgages have been "foreclosed on" speciously by someone who claimed to have a lien or erroneously (illegally) put a lien on their house.

I don't believe in just tossing stuff out on the street without an owner there, even if one is evicting or foreclosing on "a lazy scumbag scam artist". Bring the police or sheriff if there's a potential for danger.

Otherwise, it's just blatantly punishing someone who is in debt by stealing from a family who's already got problems under a weak veneer of "property rights" laws.

Haele