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- Billybobgeorge, on 07/01/2008, -1/+260I hope they win their lawsuit. This is just pure, gross negligence.
- benman587, on 07/01/2008, -1/+235I hope someone got fired.
- therealkdog, on 07/01/2008, -2/+139I think plundering the homes of the owners of JPmorgan would be fair.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -3/+136Wtf? Even if another family hadn't moved in this wouldn't be legal! Is robbery a common tactic in the lending industry?
- thatguydr, on 07/02/2008, -2/+121worst... overdraft charge... ever
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -15/+133JP Morgan Chase is heavily invested in PetroChina. The implication is that they are financing genocide in Darfur. Check them out at
http://divestfordarfur.org
Our company does their 401(k) thru JPMC and they lied about PetroChina. I turned down the 401(k) bennie for this reason. The trail of ownership goes through Hong Kong, check the website above. - twiztidsinz, on 07/02/2008, -0/+89Hear that?
That's the sound of lawyers across the country having a collective orgasm. - TheProWasTaken, on 07/02/2008, -2/+80What would happen if somebody thought they were robbing the place and shot them?
Technically it is robbing/stealing though. - Revolutionista, on 07/02/2008, -2/+69I see JPMorgan/Chase don't need warrants to enter your place of residence, either.
- imakeholesinu, on 07/01/2008, -1/+67Something tells me this house will come gratus now in a settlement and they'll get all new stuff as all of their old stuff is probably pawned, landfilled, goodwilled and liquidated. Though they should also get the amount of money from the liquidation of their home assets as well as part of the settlement.
- marx2k, on 07/02/2008, -0/+65Man... they repo'ed the FOOD?! That's coldblooded.
- surfacewound, on 07/02/2008, -2/+62Yes.
- Ninh, on 07/02/2008, -1/+54Have some suits put in jail over this, just as a warning shot.
- phybere, on 07/02/2008, -0/+48Fired? I see a massive lawsuit and criminal proceedings on the way...
- DephexTwin, on 07/02/2008, -1/+49Exactly. My thought was the same. Yes, there should be a civil suit and the family should win out big, but there should also be a criminal case for robbery: those who invaded the home and robbed it, and those at JPMorgan Chase who conspired with these thieves to share in the profits!
- RawOysters, on 07/02/2008, -0/+48Why in the hell should they have to depend on donations to get by? JP Morgan should be at their door with an up front payment to get them by. It's quite obvious that they are going to get the crap sued out of them, so maybe they should start sucking up now.
- chaoswings, on 07/02/2008, -0/+46I hope a whole lot of people got fired. Who knows how many objects had sentimental value to them and now it's all gone. Not to mention they ruined a few of the locks to get in the house and probably more damage to the inside.
Also how exactly did they get to the point where they thought it was ok to start drilling the locks? It just seems excessive I'm sure there were better ways to get at what they were after. Nevermind that there was a mixup...they went at it in a very asinine manner from start to finish. - Barbrady, on 07/02/2008, -1/+35It's too bad the homeowners weren't at home armed with a shotgun when the "thieves" broke into the house.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+32wish they did that to me. I could use a couple million dollars
- mecharabbit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+32They could have gotten away with shooting them, too:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/comments?type=Sto ... - dickybrown, on 07/02/2008, -0/+31turning down your 401k benefit is just leaving money on the table - if you're trying to stand on some moral high ground, convince your company to switch 401k admins or find a different job
- basye, on 07/02/2008, -0/+30Somebody needs to go to jail for this!
- zoom1928, on 07/02/2008, -0/+28The problem with the upfront payment is that it is an admission of guilt. Thank the lawyers for setting that precedent. Where I used to work we helped an old woman who claimed one of our trucks hit her and knocked her down. Despite the fact that she had no injury and had sued three companies with the exact same word for word police report, we still lost in court because the judge instructed the jury to consider our payment as an admission of guilt.
- joshblufs, on 07/02/2008, -1/+29Okay. The old man told me to take any rug in the house.
- WTFppl, on 07/02/2008, -0/+28In 1934 executives of JPMorgan were brought in front of Congress and questioned about their involvement in laundering Nazi money in the US. Than using that money for lobbying purposes. JPMorgan was issued serious fines for their involvement with the Nazi's, but were allowed to continue doing business in the US!
-And now you know! - ferrariman60, on 07/02/2008, -0/+28No, see, with how companies are run these days, you should be hoping that the RIGHT person got fired. Chances are better than management just found someone relatively low on the totem pole, put the blame on them, and the person who's actually responsible is still on the payroll. Ugh, makes me sick.
Usually things at the consumerist are just whiny, stupid things, but once in a while, something that's actually attention worthy comes around. This is definitely one of those things. They sink our economy with their foolish policies, get a bailout from the gov't(quiet! don't tell anyone please), and then they do this? ***** all these people. I can't believe the whole situation. - Samurai77, on 07/02/2008, -0/+27How could you get your Family pics and heirlooms back after this? A TV is easy to replace but that stuff, man that sucks.
- dinostabOMG, on 07/02/2008, -0/+26The article states that a court order is also necessary for the removal of the property. And that JP Morgan is "not sure" about whether they had an order. That's a pretty big deal.
- Barbrady, on 07/02/2008, -1/+25Your home is supposed to be your castle. If you don't want to get shot then don't break into my home. Pretty simple concept.
- nitroburn, on 07/02/2008, -0/+24One of those rare times I hope they sue the pants off them.
- Y0tsuya, on 07/01/2008, -1/+24Field Asset is doing so much business they've gotten sloppy I think. I'd be most worried about any PCs they took away that has sensitive personal information on them.
- uncoveror, on 07/02/2008, -6/+28Fired upon by a firing squad is more like it!
- artfiend77, on 07/02/2008, -3/+24Actually, it turns out to save face JP Morgan Chase contacted the RIAA as a last resort and reported about 5 GB of illegal files on the families computer they seized. Each family member is now facing up to 10 years in prison and heavy fines. JP Morgan Chase was ordered to give back all the families belongings and ordered to pay 1,000,000$ in damages.
/sarcasm - inactive, on 07/02/2008, -1/+22Donation effort? ***** that! Sue JPMorgan for several times the value of your belongings IMO!
- TheGuruStud, on 07/02/2008, -0/+20Sounds like it should be public to me. When they stop being corrupt is when they can get some privacy. We don't have any (partially due to them), so why should they have any?
- brbubba, on 07/02/2008, -0/+20In New York it is illegal for landlords to move tenants' items or sell them off for collection of a debt. Of course, this is a multi-billion dollar bank so nothing surprises me anymore.
- siszam, on 07/02/2008, -0/+19Just consider that ALL the baby pictures of their children are gone forever. That by itself is worth 5 million. Even then, it doesn't make up for it.
- m0neybags, on 07/02/2008, -1/+20That's public information, guy.
- ArielMT, on 07/02/2008, -0/+18I hope the someone who got fired gave the order for this. More than that, I hope he's facing criminal charges as well as civil suits.
- jpop, on 07/02/2008, -0/+18Undoubtably, the group staked out the house to ensure the owners were gone when they broke in.
- bsmeteronhigh2, on 07/02/2008, -0/+17I'm sure the bank is taking this very seriously. Chances are, the banker making that statement removed his glasses at just the right moment to make the seriousness of it all, just that much more serious. Of course the outpouring of help to the family was from local charities in the form of pre-paid credit cards and such. Amazingly, the bank who is in the business to make those very same cards didn't step to the plate, and in a goodwill effort, begin to make things right before things are hashed out in the legal system. Of course, common decency is not so common. Seriously, it is a pity.
- Elliuotatar, on 07/02/2008, -3/+20While a couple million dollars would be nice, think about all that they lost. They didn't just lose furniture. They lost photos. They lost birth certificates, diplomas, passports, baby's first lock of hair, etc etc etc. They lost their PC with all its emails. They lost thei credit cards.
Lots of the stuff they lost is surely irreplacable. Lots of the stuff they lost may take them months to get replaced.
A couple million dollars as compensation for losing all those personal items and the stress and work of getting all your documentation and credit cards back in order? Ha. Try twenty million. A couple million is nothing these days, and wouldn't be nearly punishment enough for the corporation that pulled this crap. - splorpdotorg, on 07/02/2008, -0/+17JP Morgan publicly admitted the error. Pretty much the family gets to name their price. I'd say, minimum: pay off the house + $5 million (to replace "lost" items and for damages). What would you give if you were on the jury?
- StingingNettle, on 07/02/2008, -1/+18Its almost laughable. Nobody knows who owns what!
- kaysersoze, on 07/02/2008, -0/+16I usually don't bother to log in and comment on Digg stories, but this one hit close to home for me, since this same scenario almost occurred to me.
The house next mine had been foreclosed on, and the delinquent owners moved out one day, apparently taking their stuff with them. The house sat empty for several months, and one day during the early morning, I heard a lot of commotion outside. Now, this is not an unusual occurrence in my neighborhood, and since I work from home and tend to sleep in, I pulled the pillow over my head and continued to sleep. The sounds continued, and seemed to be coming from inside my house, but then again...this is not uncommon sue to the bizarre acoustics of my street. It's when I heard someone say "Oh *****! They got DJ equipment in here!", that I realized that the noise, in fact, was coming from inside my house...specifically in my office...which is right outside my bedroom.
You would not believe how fast I got up, grabbed my gun (yes, people sleep with their guns), and opened the door to my office, where I was treated to the sight of four guys I don't know and didn't ask into my house standing there getting ready to take my stuff. Apparently the sight of a guy holding a .40, looking groggy and pissed off, and wearing no pants seemed to make them reconsider their plan of action, and quickly bolt downstairs and out the door, leaving a trail of tools behind them.
I later discovered that they were repo men, like the company in this story, sent from the bank to clear out the possessions of the previous owners. They neglected to observe the fact that my house was not the house nextdoor, which shows how top-notch their hiring practices must be. Needless to say, they all were *very* nice to me for the rest of that day, and got me a new lock to replace the one they broke on my door. I was amused at the whole situation, and a little shaken once I thought about what might have happened had the situation escalated, or what I would have done had I not been home and come back to find all my stuff gone (cue Incredible Hulk moment).
The moral of this story is that there needs to be some sort of better process for these kinds of things. People could lose all their stuff, or even their lives if something goes wrong. Or you could meet and angry, pantless, gun-wielding man. - evilesttoast, on 07/02/2008, -0/+15who knows why they were there. they were drilling their locks. that shows malicious intent. i say ***** them.
- NikoKun, on 07/02/2008, -0/+15I hope the family either sues, or strikes a deal with JP, for enough money to set themselves for life.
I can't imagine having all my possessions tossed away like that... I have so many irreplaceable things... they define my life.
Man I'd be so pissed... ***** JPMorgan! - PopcornDave, on 07/02/2008, -0/+14No kidding.
I do hope they get all seven of their 150" plasmas and the three Austin Healeys that were in the garage. Not to mention the collection of Fabergé eggs and the priceless Picasso and Monet paintings that adorned the walls... - sirbeta, on 07/02/2008, -0/+14A court order is still required to remove articles.
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