Wrong Address
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It’s no secret that some people have the same name, and you’ve probably gotten a piece of mail before that was actually meant for someone else. But you’ve probably never gotten a piece of mail for somebody with the same name as you containing a check for $301,000. That’s what happened to Mark Guthrie, a newspaper carrier for the Hartford Courant. He received the paycheck (for only one month) that was meant to go to Mark Guthrie the Chicago Cubs player!
The mixup could have ended nicely, only not-rich-and-famous Guthrie deposited the check, and when the company located the money and began withdrawing it from his account, he froze the assets and told them that they could have it as long as he wouldn’t be caught up in any messy tax business. Instead, the Tribune Co. sued Guthrie for the rest of the money, and he went back to his not-$310k-paycheck.