Please permit me to say...."Wahala dey!" It means there's trouble.

An Ohio man who disappeared decades ago is finding out there's no easy way to come back from the dead.

Donald Miller Jr. went to court this week to ask a county judge to reverse a 1994 ruling that declared him legally dead after he had vanished from his home eight years earlier. But the judge turned down his request, citing a three-year time limit for changing a death ruling.

Hancock County Probate Court Judge Allan Davis called it a "strange, strange situation."

"We've got the obvious here. A man sitting in the courtroom, he appears to be in good health," said Davis, who told Miller the three-year limit was clear.

"I don't know where that leaves you, but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned," the judge said.

Miller resurfaced about eight years ago and went to court so that he could get a driver's license and reinstate his Social Security number.

His ex-wife had opposed the move, saying she doesn't have the money to repay the Social Security benefits that were paid out to her and the couple's two children after Miller was declared dead.

Robin Miller said her former husband vanished because he owed big child support payments and that the overdue payments had totaled $26,000 by 1994, The (Findlay) Courier reported.

Donald Miller, 61, told the judge that he disappeared in the 1980s because he had lost his job and he was an alcoholic. He lived in Florida and Georgia before returning to Ohio around 2005.

His parents told him about his "death" when he came back to the state, he said.

"It kind of went further than I ever expected it to," Miller said. "I just kind of took off, ended up in different places."

Miller's attorney said he may be able to challenge the Social Security Administration in federal court, but does not have the financial resources to do so.

Where does this leave him? I call this a case of the living dead...

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Strange Indeed

Natureboyfk: Strange Indeed

for real

sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

So the man is free to commit crimes and get away with it cos u can't arrest the deceased.

infonubia:
"I don't know where that leaves you, but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned," the judge said.

That there, is going to hurt.

Man, as if life's troubles were not enough, you get sidelined as "dead" when you're still breathing?

albacete: sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.

So the man is free to commit crimes and get away with it cos u can't arrest the deceased.

Very good point albacete. I bet all law crap will be put aide if this man becomes a criminal.

2ndOGA:

That there, is going to hurt.

Man, as if life's troubles were not enough, you get sidelined as "dead" when you're still breathing?

On one hand I feel the man's pain and on the other hand I feel like he brought it on himself. How else can we explain vanishing for so long without any friend or family member having any idea of his whereabouts?