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A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Sergio (24.138.253.---)
Date: 11-18-07 11:35

Hello,
my name's Sergio, and I'm working on a short novel half of which takes place on Culebra. I've been to the island at least fifteen times in the past three years, and I love it and I'm having fun writing this piece; however, I have a question regarding my current work: if someone is to be killed in the island, what is the procedure?
I know this question may be posted in the wrong place, but since I've visited this site for a while, every time I'm making a trip, I thought I could get straight answers.

Any help will be appreciated,
sergio c.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.coqui.net)
Date: 11-19-07 06:06

Ok, you are the current winner of the weirdest question award! We'll celebrate by having you drink yourself to death on your next visit, but you'll be smiling. At least, I think that's what we did with the last winner...it's a little fuzzy now.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: bosie (---.ulmer.com)
Date: 11-19-07 09:26

Heheh, it sounds like Sergio is asking for the correct procedure to kill someone, but I bet he means what happens to a person after they are killed or die on the island. I imagine it is like anywhere else...

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.coqui.net)
Date: 11-19-07 13:12

Keep your imagination wide. When I lived on St. Croix I wanted to write a book called *How to Die in the Virgin Islands: a survivor's handbook* because it was (is? don't know, figure it's much the same still) so very difficult for stateside people after someone from away dies there, for reasons ranging from scams that would make your hair stand on end to sheer idiocy.

I was just throwing out a plot idea :)

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Debbie (---.sip.asm.bellsouth.net)
Date: 11-19-07 19:09

I was wondering who would be brave enough to take this one!

Happy Diving!
Debbie

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.coqui.net)
Date: 11-19-07 19:38

Oh ye of little faith....

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Mort (---.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-20-07 19:31

Puerto Rico, as a U.S. territory, operates under the same laws and rules as any state. If you want to dispatch someone, you must file government form 12187-B (Statement of Intention) and 12397-C (Prior Consent of Victim). Both documents must be notarized.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.prtc.net)
Date: 11-20-07 21:00

Well, at last, some serious legal input...thanks. I was being just plain silly ( um..do you know where I can get those forms?).

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: richard (---.hsd1.dc.comcast.net)
Date: 11-21-07 03:05

MJ: I like that as a premise "how to die in the VI"

could go anywhere...

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Mort (---.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-21-07 09:40

MJ, I was being equally silly. But I must have been a little TOO straight-faced for anyone to notice, though! LOL!

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.prtc.net)
Date: 11-21-07 10:27

I got it...I laughed, a lot in fact. And I still want the forms! ;)

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Mort (---.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-21-07 13:15

Whoops... My bad, MJ. By now I should know your sense of humor well enough to recognize your own tongue in cheekness!

The forms aren't generally available, by the way. You must be one of the following: ex-military, married, or an unregistered alien.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: R. Emmett (---.maine.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-22-07 10:03

Dispatch as in "to off" or dispatch as in "send off" Mort?

Owlihoot2

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Mort (---.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-22-07 14:32

I used the word "dispatch" so that I can't be indirectly implicated as an accessory. Safety before humor, my mother always said.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: richard (---.hsd1.dc.comcast.net)
Date: 11-22-07 17:11

Mort: yeah it's always ha ha ha 'til it's boo hoo hoo..

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Doug (---.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net)
Date: 11-23-07 09:08

I'm thinking Sergio is re-thinking the locale.

Doug

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: MJ (---.prtc.net)
Date: 11-23-07 15:03

Or...he's wondering how to kill this thread.

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Re: A little help. Working on a fiction piece.

Author: Mort (---.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: 11-24-07 08:01

Sergio has been out of commission. He was fictionally arrested but is working hard on writing his way out.

(Sergio, I hope you don't mind all my attempts at humor, because this has been the best thread of the year! I took a look at your blog. I don't speak or read Spanish, but based on the photos, it looks really interesting. Can I ask a favor? If you do end up using Culebra for your locale, please don't kill a character named Mort, especially if you decide to move into the non-fiction genre. Mort is a good guy down deep. And he has a wife and three children.)

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