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Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She should have said - well we tried calling first but were on the phone for quite a while- you said our call was important to you and you were 'experiencing an unusually high volume of calls'...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As far as i can tell the loan was for around 4.5 months average salary for Brazil. Its a windfall but not a "retire early" windfall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

thats extremely generous, more like a year. minimum wage is about $250/mo and id bet most people are making that or less.