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"Ohio woman, 90, attempts suicide after foreclosure"
So sad! The times are tough indeed! CLICK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.
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Ohio woman, 90, attempts suicide after foreclosure
A 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, shot and wounded herself this week, becoming a grim symbol of the U.S. home mortgage crisis.
Addie Polk was found lying on the floor of her home with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder when police came to the home on Wednesday to serve an eviction notice, Akron police spokesman Lt. Rick Edwards said on Friday.
Polk survived the shooting and is being treated in a hospital.
It was the latest attempt by sheriff's deputies to evict Polk from her modest single-family home because she could not keep up with her mortgage.
"It appears they're evicting her over her mortgage. She's lived in the house, the neighbors said, something like 38 years and in the last couple of years fell prey to some predatory lending company or financial institution," Edwards said.
Local news reports said deputies had tried to serve Polk's eviction notice more than 30 times before Wednesday's shooting.
Home foreclosure rates are at record highs in the United States, in many cases because buyers with adjustable interest rates could not keep up with sharp increases in monthly payments. The foreclosure crisis has sparked a wider housing market downturn and is at the heart of the U.S. financial crisis.
..so sad.
Speaking of weak… it's weat to post old news. Check out pukingdog.comfor the stuff Perez will post next week…
That is sad :-/
So what's with the old lady in the tree?
hey perez,
why don't you do something good with the $87,000 you got from Ronson and buy this woman's house. you don't have to deed it to her, but at least let her live there rent-free until she dies.
THIS deserves a "worthy cause" post waaaay more than half the crap you post under that heading…
I know I agree with shante…that is sad.
This is old news, it happened like Wednsday or Thursday. Fannie Mae forgave the loan and all is well
Get better!!!!!!
Awhh bless
this is the result of greedy ol' wall street - now they're being bailed out to continue shitty practices..
Re: eat me,drink me –
Thanks for the update. I hadn't heard this.
Re: eat me,drink me – it's not really well considering she still shot herself.
I read this and expect to hear of many more. Truly sad! It will be epidemic soon.
I read THIS in a dutch NEWSPAPER… Fannie Mae seems to have acquited the LOAN… Well, how many SUICIDES will follow now?
I hope the govt will bail this woman out like they bail out the greedy CEOs/companies who are screwing people like this!!! I hope someone helps her out and SUES the shady lending co…I feel so badly for her!! THIS ISN"T RIGHT!!!!
Jeez Perez, get with it. Fanny Mae has forgiven the woman's loan and she will be able to live in her home.
Re: Risk93 – Give it a fuckin' rest, already. We 'heard' your advertisement the first time.
Too bad the economy is only going to get worse.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com
Listen to Alan Watt's podcasts if you want to know what's REALLY going on in these times… or just stay distracted by all these crappy celebrity stories.
not sad, stupid
I feel so badly for this woman. It's horrendous what some so-called 'financial institutions' will go to.
I DO have to wonder why her home wasn't paid off, though. I mean…she has lived in a single family home for 38 years (in Ohio, which does not hold the highest mortgage rates). To be fair, this home should have been paid off years ago.
What this country needs are laws that prohibit more than one home refinancing. If you don't learn your lesson, after having to refinance the first time,…you're on your own.
grandma for the 100th time I told u ur not catwoman
I think she actually heard that Palin could be President.
Sad stuff
Re: Anonymous –
It was paid off, she took out a loan against it four years ago, at the age of 86 on a thirty year loan.
Yeah cuz that makes perfect sense to give a 86 year old woman a 30 year loan.
blame the government.
thanks.
Thanks Bush. We all appreciate the shitty job you've done.
Re: HartOgold – It was paid off, she took out a loan against it four years ago, at the age of 86 on a thirty year loan.
Yeah cuz that makes perfect sense to give a 86 year old woman a 30 year loan.
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I GREATLY appreciate your comment. I didn't know that she had taken out another loan.
Sometimes, I think that all of these financial institutions are playing their own version of 'Monopoly'. They don't 'see' the HUMAN FACTOR (the people and their families) applying for the loans, nor their ages….they just see the property that will become theirs, eventually.
It makes me sick and disgusted.
What I find saddest is not that she felt so at wits end that she had no other option, but rather that she had to shoot herself to get out of her mortgage. Since it worked in this case I'm seeing other people trying it.
Maybe she just heard that squirrel tastes good and is low in fat?
The banks decided to allow shoddy, shady underwriting for loans. This lady should have been offered a "reverse" mortgage–monthly payments to the owner until the home is sold and then the loan is paid off. Instead some shady loan officer or mortgage broker sold her the WRONG loan so that they got a bigger commission. These people are worse than used car salesmen.
This whole industry was deregulated by McCain and Friends (Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspam). Do not let them stay in power.
Vote Obama/Biden and your Dem for Congress and State Offices. Get rid of those who have enabled the crooks.
Well, if she couldn't afford the mortgage, she couldn't afford a nursing home. Where was she to go? When are we, the wealthiest country in the world, going to begin to take care of our aged and our sick?
Re: fuckyouperez – Let me guess…you are gay, with absolutely NO regard for the well-being of others. You see a photo of a woman in a tree, read that they shot themselves…and took it upon yourself to make a comment about squirrels. Classy, real classy. You do your 'pseudo-gender/sexual preference' proud, I'm sure. But, to THIS hetero…you are pathetic.
aww that's sad! have you noticed that like 90% of your "headlines of the weak" have to do with people from ohio? haha! i swear ohio's not all crazy! we're actually pretty normal here!
So a 90 year old lady shot herself in her shoulder and just happened to be laying there STILL ALIVE, when the police just happened to show up to serve an eviction notice???? This bitch is super lucky or maybe even super human, fo shizzle!!
Poor lady. When you're desperate, you'll do almost anything. Let's get these RePubs out of office so that this recession won't turn into a depression and have more people like her trying to kill themselves.
Re: Girth Vader – Imagine (for a moment) that it was YOUR 90yo grandmother, or great-grandmother, who had felt so alone, as to do this. Would you STILL have posted that comment??
Aww, that's horrid
Re: Anonymous –
Actually, I'm not gay. Maybe a little metro. But all my parts go together only boy-girl, thanks. On the other hand…. Have you taken a good look at that picture? Even if the photographer is flat on his back, that woman in up in the tree a ways. And not on little spindly branches either. How exactly does a 90 year old get up in a tree that far? I suppose it could happen without her falling and breaking all the bones in her body. Then she shoots herself and lives? I dunno, the two together almost start to sound like an urban legend. Squirrel does taste good though.
omg… so sadd :[[
Re: fuckyouperez – You are a moron…and, this is my last comment to you.
Besides, granny in the picture is Chinese, dressed in traditional Chinese countryside garb for a farming family. You people can't take a fucking squirrel joke? This picture has nothing to do with the Ohio woman. Rubes.
Perez I love ya but you really need to leave ordinary people out of this. Stick to the celebrity stuff.
Re: Anonymous – We both know that isn't true.
Damn, this country has no shame! this is insane!
Re: jenjavitis – Why? does it bother you? would you rather keep on reading about the fantasy lifes about all the stars? Wake up you lil twit, what if that was your grandma or great grandma….. oh wait, she probably did have kids and grandkids and even great great great grand kids who just plain DIDN'T GIVE A SH!T, KINDA LIKE YOU
Watch Zeitgeist Addendum!!!
Re: bombarushka – I am a HUGE fan of foreign films…but, I fail to see the relevance to THIS situation. Please, let us in on your train of thought. I am intrigued.
perez i truelt hope your not making fun of this lady because if you are thats terrible and ill pray for you soul
Re: jmmjmm – LMAAAAAAAAAAO
soo sad that the old lady tried to kill herself because she couldn't keep upi with the bills. poor her.
so sad.
"Predatory" lenders should be prosecuted - *especially* for preying on the elderly!! The fucking scums!!
Stupid Americans. You let your government and their friends in the financial district scam off your paychecks for trillions of dollars, when you have homeless and hungry people who are desperate.
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FUCK YOU MORONS THAT ARE TOO STUPID TO KNOW HOW BADLY YOU ARE FUCKING UP YOUR COUNTRY BY REPEATE