Comments on: You Can’t Write This

By: ozzywood

ozzywood — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:55:00 +0000

In reply to broadpowers.

Wow… In Canada??

Now here is something I WOULD like to see a movie about.

Hang on… Hasn’t Terry Gilliam done that already??

In any case, I’d be interested in seeing it.

By: broadpowers

broadpowers — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:31:00 +0000

Harry was in a battle with the tax department over money he didn’t owe. Eight years later Harry wrote to the Government to get a copy of his tax file. When Harry receive his file it was 240 pages deep, Harry was shocked to read what the tax person assessing his file had written to another tax collegue “Harry doesn’t owe the taxes as we stated”. After reading a few more pages Harry read “Get him to go bankrupt”. Wow! That explained why they were trying to coeirce him into bankruptcy and telling him his debit would be eliminiated if he did so.
But Harry was determined to get to the truth, a bankruptcy agent advised Harry not to go bankrupt if he didn’t owe, it was the tax depatments cheap way of not having to be accountable.
Harry took his documents to show the tax department what he had, and stated the documents proved “you were Acting in Bad Faith with my file”. The lady tax agent’s eyes bulged and her face got red as she read what they had done, she had pressed a button, yanked the documents out of harry’s hands and called security, saying “these documents are going to security”! Harry without hesitation grabbed the documents back and left the building.
Harry gave a copy of his tax file to a tax lawyer in a sealed envelope. Harry later learned the the tax lawyer left the law firm after handing over Harry’s client-solicitor-privileged-documents to tax agents without a court order. Later on the law society found the lawyer guilty on many counts, the lawyer did not advise Harry what he had done.
The tax department eventually paid Harry back most of the money the seized and garnished over the years. Harry wanted to share his story. Harry was writing a book on how to deal with the tax man. 10 year battle with the tax man, it was Harry’s way of getting back at them while helping others in his situation.

After three days of promoting his book in public in front of the tax office, he was arrested by police, taken for a mental health evaluation, denied his call to lawyer, his family was not notified, the medical staff locked Harry in a small darkened room, ordered him to remove his clothes and put hospital gown on. The door opens again, a nurse walks in holding a syringe. With security by her side, she tells Harry “I’m going to medicate you”, Harry refused, stating “I refuse, I have a right to call a lawyer”, nurse told him “you have no rights”!
Harry was drugged and detained for eleven days. Harry is currently advocating to have policies in place to ensure things like this do not happen to others. This is based on a true story, while Harry is not his real name, the events are true!

By: Christine Spoljar

Christine Spoljar — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:18:24 +0000

It’s true! It’s true! The “Paper” never lies! Sometimes fact IS stranger than fiction…or at least as strange as it. The truth is, my Mum is going to talk to dead people tomorrow!…in a zinc-alum. garage in the back yard of a fibro house in midwest suburbia. I don’t believe there is any rotting flesh involved though. Perhaps only a comfy chair; chunks of rose quartz and amethyst; flimsy wisps of gauze in hues of purple and pink; a dark-haired woman in flowing robes; and the scent of burning incense.
How do you find the time to troll the abyss of cyber information whilst my “free” hours are spent opening little yellow envelopes with my cyber dagger?…It is SO unfair. I have relegated 190 letters to my recycle bin, only 361 to go….why wasn’t I so popular in the days when pen was put to paper and I stood anxiously at the letter-box awaiting the arrival of the post-man?!

By: Warren Paul Glover

Warren Paul Glover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:23:35 +0000

This was a great read. Why? It reiterates that you should always look to the real world for your source material (especially if you’re stuck for an idea) but it also made me smile because in my short story, ‘Escaping to Venus’, I have a character who talks to his dead wife as she’s propped up in bed. And I just made that story up – I didn’t source it from the Sydney Morning Herald or any other newspaper.