tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Jun 14, 2009 22:57:45 GMT -5
One poster pointed out that it is getting close to the point where Randall would be declared legally dead. What implications would that have for him if he subsequently shows up? I think a "dead" person on the scene would be...problematic. For both society and the person.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 15, 2009 12:17:49 GMT -5
One poster pointed out that it is getting close to the point where Randall would be declared legally dead. What implications would that have for him if he subsequently shows up? I think a "dead" person on the scene would be...problematic. For both society and the person. There have been a LOT of tv crime shows, movies and real-life cases where legally "dead" people have shown up. Most of the time, it's treated as a case where the "deceased" is either in hiding, or actually part of the Federal WPP, or has had something happen that gave them a severe case of amnesia so they do not know who they are themselves. Laws on when a person can be declared legally dead, after having gone missing for so long, very from state-to-state, and in most cases, can be either hastened or challenged by next-of-kin. Since Randall apparently didn't have any next-of-kin, who knew of his disappearance, that is, the state would automacally declare him dead after a set period of time, after he failed to show up or pay depts or contact any creditors. Whatever assets, financial and otherwise, that he owned, would have been taken by the state, and non-financial assets like his car would have been sold at public auction. I would also assume that this would be done, defacto, for any monster who'd been legally banished as well, since that basically would be a death sentence, although in that case, the banished monster's family would probably be awarded all of his/her assets, perhaps after the banished had been given time to draw up a will. Randall would be, in effect, returning to absolutely NOTHING-no home, no bank account, no car, no job-even his SS # would have probably already been assigned to someone else, so his very identity would have been wiped out. Unless he'd been smart enough to put away something in a safe deposit box somewhere in some bank, that had been paid up for many decades in advance, and registered that safe deposit box under a different name, he'd have absolutely nothing to come back to and would not, for all practical purposes, even exist under the law, UNLESS he makes it back before that waiting period before declaring a missing monster legally dead is up, he would indeed face some serious problems. pitbulllady
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Jun 15, 2009 12:58:41 GMT -5
Quibble: I believe Social Security numbers are not reassigned after death. This is one of the reasons it is a race to see which Social Security will run out of first...numbers or money. I can't see Randall setting up a safe deposit box under a different name and paying up decades in advance...why would he do such a thing, especially while he is being paid minimum wage? I guess he is really in trouble. This might increase his resentment at EB and FR, making him more likely to seek revenge and thus become a villain. One hope is that he is a villain for most of MI 2, but reforms at the very end. I am going to suggest this in my letter, and bring up my Christianity (while there is life, there is hope for Redemption) and Scream Arena. Does this sound good for a letter?
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 15, 2009 15:44:31 GMT -5
Quibble: I believe Social Security numbers are not reassigned after death. This is one of the reasons it is a race to see which Social Security will run out of first...numbers or money. I can't see Randall setting up a safe deposit box under a different name and paying up decades in advance...why would he do such a thing, especially while he is being paid minimum wage? I guess he is really in trouble. This might increase his resentment at EB and FR, making him more likely to seek revenge and thus become a villain. One hope is that he is a villain for most of MI 2, but reforms at the very end. I am going to suggest this in my letter, and bring up my Christianity (while there is life, there is hope for Redemption) and Scream Arena. Does this sound good for a letter? I do know that here in SC recently, a child was assigned the same SS# as a man who'd died several years ago, and the man's widow was receiving his SS check monthly. There was a mix-up, and that money wound up going to the child...whose parents happily spent it, of course. Now, they're having to pay it back. That child was born after the man had died, and the news reporter did state that the number had been "recycled", but then, I honestly don't trust most reporters to get their own names right. It would not make sense at all for Randall to have any money put away in a safe deposit box, actually, especially given his young age. That is usually the sort of thing that older people do, to have something to leave to their family members after they die, like bonds for grand-children's college education. The only reason that Randall might have done something like that is if he DID have a kid, somewhere, and wanted to leave something for him/her to be able to get an education later in life, OR if Randall already suspected that his life might be in danger, and he might have to flee and hide somewhere, and would need to take some cash with him to get by on for awhile. I really don't hold much for that latter idea, though. Randall was just too young and naive to really plan ahead like that, or to think that anything bad could happen to him. He would have had difficulty even having enough money, or anything of real value that could be pawned or sold for a lot of money, left over by the end of each pay period. In fact, I'd wager that financial difficulties probably played a role in his eagerness to build the Scream Extractor, after he'd been promised a huge pay raise. And, by the way, I like the concept behind your letter. I don't bring it up much here, since there are people of many varied backgrounds, with regards to spirituality or beliefs, and I respect that, but my own belief DOES play a VERY big role in how I see Randall, and why I do not believe in the idea of anyone being "born evil", or being beyond redemption. Whether or not a person chooses to believe in what's written in the Bible, or to take it for historical value, or whatever, it's full of stories of people who were not very nice, people most of us probably would not want to have met, personally, but who were Chosen to lead and to do great things. Jacob was a lying, cowardly con artist who ripped off his own brother, Noah was an old wino, Samson was a womanizing thug, King David had a guy in his own army killed just so he could marry the guy's wife, Moses was a murderer who had an awful temper, and Paul would surely have been labeled a serial killer by today's standards, and so on and on. I believe that the purpose for including those stories, by whoever wrote the Book, was to show that none of us are perfect, and that anyone, even these arguably unpleasant characters, can still reform and be of some benefit to the rest of society. If a man who boasted openly about hunting down, torturing and murdering people because of their beliefs can become one of Christianity's most influential and peaceful proponents, why could someone like Randall not be able to change for the better, through whatever means? Regardless of our own differences in belief here on this board, we have one belief in common-that all of us are imperfect, that people CAN change, and that forgiveness is a very powerful and special thing. Forgiveness might have sort of been "touched on" here and there in Pixar's movies, like when Mike returns from the Himalayas to help out Sulley at the last moment, but it's never been a major theme of a movie, and I honestly believe it's long overdue. I can't think of a better character to illustrate the power of forgiveness than Randall Boggs. pitbulllady
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Jun 15, 2009 23:23:48 GMT -5
I was once featured on a local television news program for about ten minutes. We actually talked for more like an hour, and the station edited the interview and added some commentary. They fitted two big mistakes into those ten minutes. Take a deep breath when you talk to a reporter.
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