Mar 11th, 2010
BofA’s lastest crime
The editors of the Wall Street Journal probably thought the story of Angela Iannelli and her parrot Luke, prominently displayed in a full color photo teaser, above the fold, in today’s paper was a good color story. It was. The story was an ooops, look what the silly bank did piece about how Bank of America erroneously sent a contractor into Ms. Iannelli’s house, changed the locks, shut off her utilities, fouled her toilets (?!), damaged her flooring and took her bird — all as part of the process of booting out a deadbeat mortgagee. Turns out she wasn’t in foreclosure. Nope, she wasn’t even behind in a payment.
Understandably, she was pretty darned upset at the turn of events, particularly the abduction of her parrot. She lost track of him for over a week (one wonders how the poor thing was treated while in custody), and wound up with anxiety such that she needed medication. Gee, I need medication just thinking about the mess she must have faced. Imagine coming home to a trashed house? Well, trying to come home to one. The locks were all changed.
The story reminds me of a book I read recently, The Final Solution by Michael Chabon. It’s the story of a murder involving a parrot that was thought to be a witness. But the bird was abducted because he endlessly recited a series of numbers that the killer thought was the code for a Swiss bank account. When a friend of mine first heard the story of the bank error/parrot taking she thought maybe the bird was spouting pin numbers. Ah, that would be nice touch, wouldn’t it: Big BofA worried a parrot was going around reeling off customers’ pins.
Sadly, it was the bank that was (again) the culprit. Taking $20 billion in taxpayer money wasn’t enough. They take a parrot, too.
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