The Rebel Faction

I'm trying to think of a hypothetical tax or fine more ridiculous than this ... but I'm coming up short. Even having to pay for the air that you breathe each day isn't as insane as this case. Please tell me that you're pulling our legs with this, Raktus.

Something I find amusing as heck; in most judicial systems (Canadian, American and UK included) a dead person cannot be convicted of a crime... of any crime.

I think that when these people get declared dead and then spend all sorts of time and money jumping through hoops to prove they're alive that they are missing out on an excellent opportunity.

One could literally get a hold of their death certificate, through alternate channels, find the person responsible for declaring them dead and then rob that person blind, rape and murder them, and get away with it (legally, if not morally)... and I find it odd that no one, of the many people who this has happened to, has ever done so because it seems to me that if a dead person could go around robbing, raping and murdering people then it would force that legal system to re-examine their stance to reinstating a persons "alive" status post-haste.

Of course getting caught while "dead" could be risky too being as if someone else decided to wrong that person (the "dead" one) to any extent the worst they, in turn, could be convicted of would be tantamount to molestation of a corpse...

Good times.

I can see an interesting television or novel series in this somewhere, Beff. Write it before someone else beats you to it!