How's THIS for screwed up???
Here is a newspaper article from the Thursday Nov 21 2002 edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. it comes from a weekly article called News of the Weird. It reports strange news stories from around the world that are sometimes funny, and sometimes not so funny.
Here it is word for word:
Also in August, New York City landlord Denise M. Lyman announced she would not allow the family of Sept. 11 victim Danielle Kousoulis into Danielle's old apartment to secure DNA to help detect her remains because Danielle had breached her Sept. 1, 2001, lease by failing to give three months' notice before "abandoning" the apartment.
I am not a master of the legal arts, but isn't TRAGIC DEATH an automatic out clause for leases? What is the landlord going to do, put a bad mark on Danielle's rental history???
I would love to be the judge of a jury member when, not if but when, this goes to court. :D