Dead Yes - But 5 Days?

I love it when an email sucks people into believing it just because it's in writing. Case in point, take the article below that appeared in the New York Times back in December 2001.

While reading, what was your initial response? Disbelief? But then you read on and put aside your skepticism and said "Wow that would suck!" Well that was my experience. But then I did what any internet savvy person would of done - I Googled it - and here is what I found.

Poor Mr. Turklebaum - he just wanted to be left alone...