Humour
Thou Art Behind In Thy Mortgage Payments
by CHRIS VOGEL
Jasbir Kaur, a Sikh-American living in Harris County, Texas, U.S.A., was having trouble with her mortgage.
She had lost her job due to a medical problem and was behind in
her payments. Still, she thought she could save her home, and was in
discussions with a mortgage company, hoping to negotiate a deal not to
foreclose.
In the end, it was not to be.
The property was sold
for a little more than $190,000. Jasbir is suing several mortgage
companies, accusing them of all sorts of hanky-panky with regard to her
eviction and the foreclosure, but that is not what makes her case
standout.
Jasbir claims that when she received the original
eviction petition, it contained a piece of paper which was "offensive
and sacrilegious."
According to the lawsuit, "Between Exhibits B
and C, [the petition] contained a letter not so subtly hinting that God
wanted [Jasbir Kaur] to leave her house."
Among several quotes listed on the page were, "God commands Abram and
Sarai to 'go from your country and your kindred and your father's house
to the land that I will show you,'" and "What were Abram and Sarai
asked to leave behind in order to follow God?"
The quotes refer to the Book of Genesis in the Christian Bible.
Says Jasbir Kaur's attorney, Ira Joffe, "I think somebody went a bit overboard. Ninety-nine times out of 100, you're not going to get a Sikh, but this was precisely in the wrong place, and it just felt wrong."
In her lawsuit, Kaur claims that there "is no excuse for the document's existence in the eviction petition," and fears it may have been placed in other people's eviction notices, as well.
[Courtesy: Houston Press]
August 18, 2010
Conversation about this article
1: George Nealy (Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.), August 19, 2010, 11:57 AM.
No one, nowhere, gets nuttier than Texans! And remember, George W - our 'village idiot' - was one of Texas' finest! All I can I say is "Sorry!" on behalf my boorish compatriots.