Someone sent me this quote: "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992, because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."-- State Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina. It reminded me of a case I worked about 10 years ago with a local PD where the spouse reported her husband was dying of cancer when he had in fact been killed be her and her brother 7 years before. After his retirement checks had been cut off, she wrote a letter complaining about it and requesting the retirement be reinstated. I posed as a Director of the Pension Fund and called her on the phone. I taped the conversation and she said her husband was dying and bedridden and couldn't come to the office in person. We never found his body, but she was convicted of Mail Fraud, Theft of Govt. Property and Obstruction of Justice. She is not due to get out of prison for a few more years.

Growing up in Appalachia and across the Ohio River from Kentucky I can see the following story actually happening ;>).

Deep in the back woods, of Letcher County Kentucky a hillbilly's wife went into labor in the middle of the night, and the doctor was called out to assist in the delivery. Since there was no electricity, the doctor handed the father-to-be a lantern and said, "Here. You hold this high so I can see what I am doing!."

Soon, a baby boy was brought into the world. "Whoa there", said the doctor, "Don't be in such a rush to put that lantern down I think theres another one coming."
Sure enough, within minutes he had delivered a baby girl. "Hold that lantern up, don't set it down there's another one!" Said the doctor.

Within a few minutes he had delivered a third baby. "No, don't be in a hurry to put down that lantern, it seems theres yet another one coming!" cried the doctor.
The redneck scratched his head in bewilderment, and asked the doctor,

"You reckon it might be the light that's attractin' 'em?"