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"It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life"

Damon Root | 5.12.2009 5:11 PM

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A zombie bailout? Why not:

Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president's stimulus plan—including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago.

The woman's son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week….

"I just want to keep it as a souvenir, that's all. I'll never cash it," Hagner said.

Rest here. Reason on zombies here.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).

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