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There would have to be pretty specific circumstances for something like this to happen. If you rented you would have been evicted...if you owned a house, the grass would have been 2' tall and the town would have cited you. Mail would be piling up somewhere-wouldn't the post office at some point start returning his mail? (I know, I know, there IS a joke there about "dead letters") I suppose he could have been in some sort of subsidized housing, but how many places can you stay totally free and nobody checks on you?
Very sadly, we lost our next door neighbor weeks ago. She was much too young-another driver crossed the center line and her number was up. While we knew her & had talked on a regular basis ("nice weather today!") when the state troopers came to our door neither my wife or I could come up with a next of kin. 2 years she lived next door and we didn't know she had a son, didn't realize that we knew her son-in-law.
And, on a lighter note...I'd wondered about those Wal*Mart tv sets. That's a great longevity test. Like most things I guess leaving them running is easier on them than constant on-and-off cycling.
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Bryan
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