Today's Topics:
Haunted House
Shriners and Slack
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 09:27:49 -0400
From: Eric Haines <eye!erich@uu.psi.com>
Message-Id: <9107241327.AA02293@juniper>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Haunted House
Appeals court rules home is haunted
[note this is not from the Weekly World News, but is Associated Press]
NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals court has ruled that a riverfront house in Nyack
is indeed haunted and a prospective buyer can sue to get his deposit back.
"As a matter of law, the house is haunted," the state Supreme Court's Appellate
Division ruled Thursday in a 3-2 decision that reversed a lower court judge.
The ruling means Jeffrey and Patrice Stambovsky may go back to court to try to
get back the $32,500 deposit they paid Helen Ackley as a deposit.
Ackley, 64, former owner of the Victorian, said her family has been seeing
ghosts in the house since they moved in 24 years ago.
"I feel they are very good friends," she said last year. "It's very comforting
to have them around when you are by yourself."
The Stambovskys had been haunted by Justice Edward Lehner's ruling last year
that "caveat emptor" - let the buyer beware - guides real estate purchases.
This means the buyer must make sure he's getting a good deal.
But the appellate court declared "caveat emptor" less than all-encompassing and
said no amount of prudent inspection by the Stambovskys would have revealed the
poltergeists that occupy the 18-room house.
The Stambovskys, who lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side at the time, could
not have been expected to know about the house's reputation in Nyack, Justice
Israel Rubin said writing for the majority.
"Who you gonna call?" to detect ghosts, Rubin wondered as he quoted the title
song from the movie "Ghostbusters."
Rubin said Ackley would not be able to deliver a vacant house, since ghosts
live there.
"I guess now I can try to get back what's rightfully mine," said Stambovsky,
38, a bond trader. He said Ackley failed to reveal the Revolutionary War-era
ghosts when he signed the contract in August 1989.
The Stambovskys now live in Nyack about a mile from the haunted house.
Stambovsky said he doesn't believe in ghosts, "but if my wife is influenced
enough by that stuff to feel uncomfortable, that's a good enough reason not to
sink our life savings into it."
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 11:26:56.68 MST
From: sobotka%GC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: Shriners and Slack
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-ID: <9107241659.aa20849@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Remember the "Jesus is our Hope" sign from the Book of the SubG?
I saw this ad on some pink grocery store cart in Glendale, AZ
Shriners
Help
Kids
Now... add a little "Bob"
Bob
Help
Kids
Shriners
BoB
Kids
and most importantly...
Shriners
Help
Bob
Master of Voodoo
PS: Where the hell is this Digest archived?
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