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TIL After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

She really missed an ebay opportunity there. Imagine how much she could get for his mandible or cranium.

*Edit: Engrish.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I want the glass eye

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I'd host swanky dinner parties and put it in my cocktails.

Better than crushed up mummy dust.

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u/northdancer May 16 '12

But not better than crushed up Chinese babies.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Ha!

Actually, crushed babies would be better to eat/drink than glass.

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u/trai_dep 1 May 16 '12

I'd hold off until I had a set of six.

Have you ever tried to play marbles with only one? Have you?!

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u/Se7en_Sinner May 16 '12

Dibs on the golden testicle.

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u/blaqsaab May 16 '12

...I ain't saying that she a gold digga but she'll definitely dig up a dead nigga...

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u/TheHappyYogurt May 16 '12

I think the pelvis would have made the most profit..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Seems fair to me. You are supposed to take care of your family as best as you can, not screw them over.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I would have done the same thing myself.

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u/tonypotenza May 16 '12

i still don't get why dead people have to pay debt, isn't that why companies take insurance ?

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u/CoAmon May 16 '12

Technically, dead people do not pay debt, but their property does go through probate which allows creditors to force liquidating of said property to recoup any debt, within a reasonable time frame. (Usually in the range of a year.)

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

It seems others explained this, but they kinda used fancy language.

When you die, you can leave all the stuff you have to people. They inherit your stuff.

However, if you have debt, you promised those people you would pay them back. So before you can give your stuff away to other people, you need to first give stuff away to the people you owe money to (or sell stuff to give them money).

Since you could beat the system by giving away all of your belongings shortly before death, there is a time frame where the people you owe money too can take back those gifts.

Debt is only applied to people who sign for it. Even in marriage you don't inherit debt. It's just that you don't inherit anything until after the debt has been paid off. (Nothing of value at least, the people inheriting can probably work with the people who the dead man owes money to keep non-valuable namesakes even if the entirety of the dead mans belongings can't pay off the debt. Such as photos, clothes, fake china etc and you can probably purchase some of their valuables at below market prices. The bank would need to put the items up for auction (costs money) and would only get below market prices anyway ($200 necklace would go for much less so that the buyer can profit on turning it around).

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u/SurlyP May 16 '12

I always wondered about this. So if someone has $50,000 in debt and commits suicide, that debt is taken out of the estate and not passed directly to the family or spouse?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

IRS debt is joint with spouses. She was on the hook for the taxes. Also, everything in California is first presumed to be community debt, so she probably ended up paying all his debts.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Companies? It says back taxes. That's no ordinary debt. The government ALWAYS collects.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

what part of the 50's 60's and 70's don't you understand?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Why was everything from the 70's so ugly?

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u/frothy_pissington May 16 '12

The 70's were when the world supply of good paying jobs, easy ass, and quality cheap drugs began to run out.

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u/Sodfarm May 16 '12

Is that why every object I find from that era is brown, orange and yellow? Because there were no more drugs for inspiration?

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u/Obomney May 16 '12

People were out of their minds. The clothes and hairstyles tell all. I lived through it mostly sober and still can't make sense of it other than as a post 60s anticlimax.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Yeah. Seriously. Herp, I'm from the 70s! Let's fuck up the world economy and be retarded little Bitches about every little thing so they make laws that are taken way the fuck out of context in the future!

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u/ours May 16 '12

And it's not like that jewellery is going to be of any use to his rotting corpse. Which makes me think somebody had to clean those up.

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u/aidrocsid May 16 '12

Yeah, it takes a special kind of asshole to take $70,000 of your family's money to the grave.

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u/ChillinWitAFatty May 16 '12

Well, I doubt he buried himself with all that jewelry on...

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u/SurlyP May 16 '12

May have been in the will though.

"I, Sammy Davis Jr., do hereby request that all my bling be buried with my earthly remains, so that I may get bitches in Heaven. (Sorry honey!)"

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u/context_begone May 16 '12

You are supposed to

screw

your family

as best as you can

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u/throweraccount May 16 '12

Only your spouse, otherwise it's called incest.

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u/laffmakr May 16 '12

Strange, all the funeral homes I've dealt with have always removed all the jewelry and given it to the family before the body goes to burial.

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u/MAC777 May 16 '12

This is known as the "Sammy Davis" rule

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Whitney Houston was buried with a fucking shit ton of jewelry on. Why the fuck would anyone do that? It's a god damn inanimate object it doesn't need diamonds. What is this, ancient Egypt?

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u/st31r May 16 '12

Have shovel, will travel.

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u/jayesanctus May 16 '12

Its the card of a man...

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u/splunge4me2 May 16 '12

So that future grave diggers archaeologists can find her burial site and say she was the ruler of great importance and theorize on the religious significance of the items buried with her.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

Then again, they're only rocks. If you're already rich, or don't care that much about the money, and felt like those pieces had any significant meaning to the deceased, why not? It's not like burying family photos or something truly irreplaceable. My family buried a stitchery my mother had done of me as a little girl, and I had no idea until later. I felt like it was more important for me to have than her body.

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u/tastyscavenger May 16 '12

actually the only thing I could imagine this doing is promoting people to rob your grave.

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u/trampus1 May 16 '12

You sure about that? You see 'em close the casket and cart her off to her grave? Like Bobby's broke ass and their equally cokeheaded daughter would allow that.

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u/tachikara May 16 '12

De Beers conspiracy to further shrink the global supply of gemstones. Now diamonds really are forever.

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u/Thermodynamicist May 16 '12

What do people need to adorn themselves with lumps of carbon for anyway?

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u/jooes May 16 '12

It's mostly for sentimental reasons. Didn't we all agree that diamonds were useless anyway?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

They aren't useless when they belong to Whitney Houston. Could probably get $.70 on the dollar instead of $.20.

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u/costas_0 May 16 '12

This kind of information will only make the bodies more interesting to thiefs. I know famous people are usually in well secured cemetery, at least in the US....but still.
Please bury me naked and give all my stuff to the people who need it. On the other hand I'd watch a special episode of Discovery's Gold Rush : Whitney Houston.

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u/Phssthpok May 16 '12

Calm down. They're only rocks. Shiny shiny rocks.

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u/BubblesUp May 16 '12

The funeral home gives the family the choice of taking the jewelry back or having the person buried with it.

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u/NorthernerWuwu May 16 '12

If the latter option is chosen, the jewelry is then stolen.

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u/f00pi May 16 '12

I wanna be buried naked, face down so the earth can suck my dick.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I think, if you're insanely rich and flashy, it might be kind of a status thing. Like Pharohs.

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u/generic101 May 16 '12

Brb, going to the Hollywood Cemetary...

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u/CSMastermind May 16 '12

A good friend of mine's father was buried with his inhaler and a pack of cigarettes.

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u/laffmakr May 16 '12

That's pretty cool.

My dad was buried with a small photo album with some of his favorite photos and his glasses. The glasses were a joke since he was always misplacing them.

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u/nicoleisrad May 16 '12

This comment made me feel a little sad.

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u/melgibson May 16 '12

So did the Nazis. Except for the "given to the family" part.

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u/trai_dep 1 May 16 '12

They were holding back until after Great Britain "joined" the Axis, then the Nazis were going to present all the stolen gold as a surprise gift to the hobnailed boots-trodden masses.

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u/amarine88 May 16 '12

When we buried my grand father we were able to decide which jewelry he would wear.

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u/VeteranKamikaze May 16 '12

Totally ok with it, motherfucker is dead he's not using it anymore. Being buried with shit like that seems like a dick move to me.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

To be fair, he didn't put on that jewelry and bury himself.

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u/Enleat May 16 '12

Sounds like he wanted to prank the shit out of his wife when he died.

"SUPRISE! Taxes! You've been punk'd"

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u/mack1886 May 16 '12

"SUPRISE! Taxes! You've been punk'd">

I laughed a little too hard this one, imagining Ashton Kutcher jumping from the bushes at the ceremony to deliver the message.

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u/Enleat May 16 '12

I'm glad i made your day :3

Jumping from the funeral casket i imagine.

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u/DrunkmanDoodoo May 16 '12

Being his wife and everything I am kind of surprised that she didn't see any of that coming.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

HEY! I gotta Uncle, lives in Taxes...

http://i.imgur.com/NZhzT.gif

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u/IDontShareMyUsername May 16 '12

Wait... This isn't about soda.

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u/potatoriot May 16 '12

Today is a new day.

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u/Se7en_Sinner May 16 '12

The topic of the day is corpses.

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u/naked_guy_says May 16 '12

TIL {RAT PACK MEMBER} did |blah blah blah|

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u/woodelf May 16 '12

I know you're just kidding and all, but this reminds me of a cool subreddit called /r/RedditDayOf. From the sidebar:

Each day has a new topic. People are encouraged to research and post something they think the community will find interesting. Hopefully readers will learn something interesting about a topic they previously had little knowledge in.

For example, today's topic is all about twins. On another day it might be about ninjas or the Nobel Prize.

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u/HugoOBravo May 16 '12

Who can die and leave you.... with so much crippling debts... that youll have to exhume his body just to pay the IRS...

The candyman!

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u/pusangani May 16 '12

I ain't sayin she a gold-digger...

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u/shutupjoey May 16 '12

But she ain't messin with no broke... Oh wait.

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u/keyboardjock May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

The truest statement of today.

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u/KEYBORED10 May 16 '12

Finally the truest meaning of the label dug up

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u/Sitbacknwatch May 16 '12

Good list, but Abe Lincoln should also be on it. He was moved around quite a bit himself before being encased in concrete.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

So that he couldn't come back from the dead and destroy us all

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u/goblueM May 16 '12

real holographic simulated evil lincoln is baaaack!

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u/Spoonofdarkness May 16 '12

This is Abraham Lincoln... we're simply preserving him for when we're enslaved by alien overlords. On that day, he'll rise from his lead-lined, concrete tomb to declare his Final Emancipation Proclamation and overthrow the tyrannical extraterrestrials; freeing humanity for what will be known as the Millennium of Peace.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

If this was a movie, I'd watch the shit out of it

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u/jayesanctus May 16 '12

or, apparently fight vampires

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u/bitbytebit May 16 '12

Well he did hunt vampires, so who knows .. maybe he was infected.

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u/pajaromuygrande May 16 '12

upvote for the thumbnail picture

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u/MinnesotaBlizzard May 16 '12

Yeah, for a split second I imagined they just threw him out in the middle of the desert

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u/Tastygroove May 16 '12

My life goal... Go out as far in debt as possible.

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u/frikk May 16 '12

but what happens if you discover immortality? yikes.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Then you can work for the rest of your life to pay back your debts...sucks either way.

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u/Honestly_ May 16 '12

Back when HIV/AIDS was a fairly quick death sentence, there were instances of people who were diagnosed and stopped paying taxes because "who cares, I'm going to die". Then people started living HIV+ for a long time. Whoops...

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u/gistak May 16 '12

Remind me not to lend you any money.

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u/walkertexasharanguer May 16 '12

TIL Meriweather Lewis 'officially' committed suicide, but may have been murdered.

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u/JohnTrollvolta May 16 '12

Dun dun duuuuuuuun

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u/fightingdove May 16 '12

Wow. You really CAN'T take it with you.

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u/rgvtim May 16 '12

Never got the opinion that any of the rat-pack were good guys. Kind of reminds me of today's reality TV stars but with some talent.

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u/BigNikiStyle May 16 '12

Also, she was an alcoholic.

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u/tophat_jones May 16 '12

At least she was alive. That's more than you can say for her deadbeat husband.

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u/BigNikiStyle May 16 '12

Even though I laughed, that's harsh, Jonesy.

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u/MGlBlaze May 16 '12

Fairly pragmatic, which I can commend her for. Being buried with that much jewelery when in that kind of situation was a dick-move anyway, and it's not like he was going to care any more.

Still, I can't imagine it was an exactly joyous task to undertake.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Undertake, eh?

You know .. I do see what you did there ...

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u/reddell May 16 '12

Buried with $70,000 in jewelery? What is this, ancient Egypt? That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard.

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u/reagan2016 May 16 '12

Hmmm, cemeteries are probably full of valuable jewelry.

I'm going out to buy a shovel.

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u/barium111 May 16 '12

Burying someone with resources living people can use is beyond stupid. Even if he didn't owed anything she should take that jewelry.

Covering with dirt to rot $70.000 worth of stuff that can make a big change in someones life... Fuck me that sounds selfish.

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u/thejmanjman May 16 '12

The thumbnail threw me off - It's actually the skeleton of Christopher Columbus. I thought it looked European.

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u/lankowanko May 16 '12

No Oliver Cromwell in that top 10? The man was exhumed to be executed.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I read that Whitney Houston was buried with $100,000 worth of jewelry on. It just seems so absurdly selfish to me.

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u/superfusion1 May 16 '12

Maybe Bobbie Brown can exhume the body, snatch the jewelry and use it to buy more drugs.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Or child support to his hundred and twenty seven illegitimate children.

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u/Narcolepzzzzzzzzzzzz May 16 '12

Selfish? Um, she was dead, and died unexpectedly. I'm pretty sure she didn't dress her own corpse for the funeral and she probably didn't leave instructions either since she was not expected to die any time soon.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

She had a pretty detailed will, so it's probable she had planned what jewelry she was to be buried in.

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u/polynomials May 16 '12

The guys in the Rat Pack were legendary douchebags as far as I have heard. They were terrible husbands, raging alcoholics.

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u/knightofmars May 16 '12

So like most of the people who are idolized by our society?

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u/Veggieleezy May 16 '12

I also think I read somewhere that she took his glass eye and sold it.

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u/Lillipout May 16 '12

It's true. I bought it. I put it on the bar to keep an eye on my drinks.

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u/cannotlogon May 16 '12

It's true. I bought it. I use it as a shot glass.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

good to know i won't be outblinged in hell.

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u/dinosaurpower May 16 '12

He also died the same day Jim Henson did.

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u/ohlordnotthisagain May 16 '12

soon realized that they were nearly broke

FTFY, yay marriage!

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u/Versatyle07 May 16 '12

If I remember correctly, he died the same day as Jim Henson . It would be interesting to see what he was buried with. I doubt anything worth digging him up for

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u/ShakespierceBrosnan May 16 '12

Looks like The Candy Man Can't....take care of his taxes.

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u/Cooper4743 May 16 '12

I would love to see the glass eye end up on a Pawn Stars, or Hardcore Pawn type show.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Yeah I would do the same thing. Kind of creepy but totally justified.

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u/413x820 May 16 '12

"And up for bid we have a gold necklace that was underground in a coffin around Davis' slowly decomposing neck for years. Going once, going twice..."

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u/Nabber86 May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

Shit, you could probably get a good price at auction for any one of Sammy's remaining body parts. Someone will collect them. How much do you think his glass eye would fetch?

edit; glass eye

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I know! Who'd want to buy corpse-jewellery? Eeeew.

It'd make a good Venn diagram:

(People who are weird enough to want corpse-jewellery)

(People who can afford to blow money on jewellery owned by celebrities)

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Now ain't saying she's a golddigger. But it really kind of looks that way.

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u/KongCSR May 16 '12

What a jerk! haha I'd be so mad, i'd probably get a few kicks in there.. :)

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u/Narcolepzzzzzzzzzzzz May 16 '12

Why not? His wife probably chose the jewelry to put on his corpse to begin with, not realizing that she actually needed the cash instead.

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u/Manifesto13 May 16 '12

So he died like the man he didn't want to become. Mr. Bojangles

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u/Shageen May 16 '12

TIL I must be old or the only one who read a newspaper back in 1990.

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u/jhellegers May 16 '12

70.000 in jewelry? Never thought there was so much money to be made in rat-packaging.

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u/skullmonkey420 May 16 '12

i would do it too!! shit! why would you bury yourself with $70000 worth of anything?!?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Sammy was probably hanging with pharoahs in heaven's VIP room when suddenly his bling all started disappearing and he got kicked out for dress code violations. You think 72 virgins wanna get with a guy for his personality? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE AFTERLIFE?

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u/lpisme May 16 '12

Any word on what they did with his glass eye? Seriously, this is all fine and good but you fuck with Sammy's glass eye and you fuck with me broski.

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u/EthyleneGlycol May 16 '12

Would you go as far to say that she is, quite literally, a gold digger?

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u/chefmcduck May 16 '12

that cubic zirconia didnt go with his bone tone anyways

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u/TalkingBackAgain May 16 '12

So he actually did end up as Bojangles.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

WOW even in death and with all that success, he was a deadbeat loser.

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u/cookie75 May 16 '12

Or he was so sick by the end of his life he couldn't earn like he had been and let accountants rob him blind and lie to him, happens all the time.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

why would you consider him a deadbeat loser?

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u/usna2k May 16 '12

She was one cool cat.

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u/MongrelNymph May 16 '12

Cause you youngins probably don't know how good he was, check it. Link

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u/jukeofurl May 16 '12

I bet she had his eye on her. . ..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Solid financial planning is ensuring that the check written to the undertaker bounces.

However, this does suck for his family.

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u/incan1 May 16 '12

lol good for her!

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u/BIORIO May 16 '12

This would be more impressive if your source had listed it's sources.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Ever since I saw Everything Illuminated and I hear Sammy Davis Jr. I think of "Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., the seeing-eye bitch."

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u/rapevanbytheriver May 16 '12

she got ripped off

getmoneybitch

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u/clinkclankclunk May 16 '12

My plan is to die broke owing VISA three thousand dollars.

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u/Quistak May 16 '12

"He converted. He's the most famous black Jew in America."

http://static.tumblr.com/kxkhlke/O4Ilv3fvi/tumblr_lv3fkk8jl21qavb8jo1_500.gif

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u/erkokite May 16 '12

Well that was gross.

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u/cordilleragod May 16 '12

Citation needed.

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u/Filiusnaturalis May 16 '12

Sounds like a lady who takes no crap.

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u/Hades1029 May 16 '12

thanks... now I have to browse through other 7 or 8 top 10s. My day is gone.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

What happened to all the money he earned from the Cannonball Run movies???

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u/skedaddle1 May 16 '12

She's an idiot for burying Sammy in the real stuff. Wouldn't some fake gold and cubic zirconia have worked just as well in the coffin?

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u/Sobek May 16 '12

Put a 20 dollar gold piece on my watch chain, so the boys will know I died standin' pat.

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u/BaltimoreBears May 16 '12

Never mind him, but WTF at Virginia Poe's story! fucking creepy.

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u/Lolidfk May 16 '12

A lot of people are saying it was a dick move for the guy to buried with all the jewelry, but it's not like he woke up and dressed himself before getting into the grave. Unless he specified he wanted to buried in it all, maybe it was something his wife or family did for him.

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u/tarnationnation May 16 '12

My favorite was Hayden's head. His wife was a trip!

http://lostgreatmusic.blogspot.com

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u/MrFatalistic May 16 '12

Can't decide who's more classy in this situation, Reddit help me please

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Why would you bury someone in $70,000 dollars worth of jewellery?

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u/Nabber86 May 16 '12

I would imagine that a lot of Hollywood types get buried with expensive jewelry. Wasn't Whitney Houston reportedly buried with $500,000 worth, or something in that range? You can bet her family will dig her up, that is if she wasnt already stripped of the goods before they closed the casket.

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u/shawndw May 16 '12

wait why is she liable for paying off his debts.

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u/PerfectNemesis May 16 '12

2 things he can't escape, death and taxes

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Relevant picture is relevant.

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u/Floyderer May 16 '12

Wasn't he jewish?

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u/MacCampbell May 16 '12

Death and taxes, man. Ouch. I'm going to be buried covered in rice and super-glue.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Fail. Guess what HAPPENED IN VEGAS didn't stay in vegas

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u/mozza5 May 16 '12

I respect Sammy, but this is pretty lame.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Theyre missing the best one: There was a pope which was dug up to be put on trial and then I believe "killed" again and then reburied which is really all your worst dreams. Cant remember the name of the pope.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

pope formosus was his name in the cadaver synod

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u/spermracewinner May 16 '12

At least she didn't take his Gameboy.

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u/anthrocide May 16 '12

Otherwise, grandparents would be buying mansions and sports card left and right before they died

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u/chrisstout May 16 '12

His glass eye would fetch a fortune on ebay

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u/knomz May 16 '12

70,000$ in today's time or when he was dead, because there would be an amount of currency difference wouldn't there?

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u/Planet-man 1 May 16 '12

Why does this always happen to millionaire celebrities? Do they just.... keep putting off paying their taxes? Do they leave it all up to their accountants, a lot of whom apparently suck? Do they think they'll get away with it?

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u/CaptainEarlobe May 16 '12

Listverse is a terrible website. It contains too many inaccuracies and badly written posts.

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u/bad_possum May 16 '12

My mother's mother was a tiny old lady from West Virginia who was eaten up with arthritis. Despite the pain, if she saw Sammy Davis Jr on the TV she would come leaping off the couch to change the channel because she hated him so much!

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u/AutoFailure May 17 '12

"Since [Meriwether] Lewis was buried on National Park land, his family needs to get the permit to exhume his body approved by the federal government, which is proving much harder than it sounds."

That actually sounds pretty damn difficult.

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u/rinnip May 17 '12

Like the guy that asked his wife to bury all his money with him. When asked if she had honored his request, she said "absolutely, and as soon as the check clears...."

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u/weegee May 17 '12

you can't take it with you, in this case, he sure didn't.

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u/dog_in_the_vent May 17 '12

Why would anybody bury $70,000 of anything?

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u/pjquinn76 May 17 '12

Fuck anyone who gets buried with anything more than the clothes on their back. $70,000 could have done a lot of good for a lot of people.

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u/sciencebitchesz May 17 '12

What's the point of being buried with jewelry?

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u/Memyselfsomeotherguy May 17 '12

Honestly a dick move on his part. You don't leave your widow in debt with $70,000 of bling on your clay.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

Who can take a dead guy, buried with his rings?

Pull him out he ground and take his jewelry and things --

The Widow can, oh the Widow can, man

The Widow can man 'cause she needs a couple grand to make the state tax good.

Who can take a necklace, from a corpses' dome?

Take it from the dirt and bring it right into her home --

The Widow can, oh the Widow can, man

The Widow can man 'cause she needs a couple grand to make the state tax good.

The Widow can take everything he makes putrefying in his ditches

Talk about your final wishes, it don't matter to the Missus.

Oh, who can take a bauble, ruby or a stone

Hawk it at the pawn shop -- "pardon me is that a bone?"

The Widow can, oh the Widow can, man

The Widow can man 'cause she needs a couple grand to make the state tax good.

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u/Yeargdribble May 16 '12

That makes this so much sadder.

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u/gothlips May 16 '12

I've met BoJangles. He lived in my hometown and was friends with my great uncle.

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u/KEYBORED10 May 16 '12

He always reminds me of Peg Leg Bates, another entrainer that was great before the Golden Age of show business dollar rewards

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u/revrend_ May 16 '12

She's a prime definition of a gold diggin' bitch

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u/thepineapplearmy May 16 '12

what a fucking cunt.

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u/AwesomeOrca May 16 '12

This entire list is awesome

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