British humor – sex change to avoid debt collectors
While mostly hearsay, there’s probably some truth to these stories:
Man had sex change to escape debt collectors
A man from the West Midlands, who was believed to have debts of up to £50,000, had a sex change in a desperate bid to avoid debt collectors.
Published: 8:00AM GMT 20 Mar 2010
The man, who cannot be named, had got into so much debt that he decided to switch identities completely.
Actress Sarah Thom revealed that she found out about the man after speaking to workers at the Wolverhampton Credit Union to research her role playing a debt-ridden cleaner in a touring play called Forever in Your Debt.
She said that she met up with workers at the union – which provides financial advice and loans to members – who revealed its most extreme cases of debt to her.
One was the case of man from the West Midlands area who decided to have a sex change in a bid to dodge debt collectors.
The man is believed to have gone through with the operation, but is now thought to be in the process of sorting out his debts and paying off his creditors.
He is thought to have built up the massive debt – around £50,000 – after falling behind on his mortgage payments and credit card bills after losing his job.
It was also revealed that the owner of a 99p store in Wolverhampton had to shut down after penny-pinching customers demanded 1p change, while another man took a job as a debt collector only to have to hassle his own family for repayments.
Ms Thom, said: “The thing I picked up was the humour people have at the point of tragedy.”
I pick up how desperate people are.
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Customer’s who “demand” their change back are “penny pinchers”? Should they give away their money to the business? Are you also saying that in order to remain in business, the store needed to rely on keeping the customer’s change(!!??) They must have had an incredibly bad profit margin if 1 £ per customer kept them afloat, but 99p forced them to “shut down’! Sounds like total fiction to me!