Bible Thumper Quits Job Over Devil Numbers
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A man from Tennessee, a notorious bible state, is so fed up with getting the “devil’s number” on official forms that he’s quit his job, not once, but twice.
A screen grab from The Tennessean.
His last walk out occurred when his W-2 tax form bore the number 666, the “mark of the beast,”which the bible associates with the Antichrist. The number on the tax form, however, was related to the payroll mailing sequence at Contech Casting but that little detail doesn’t matter to Walter Slonopas: “If you accept that number, you sell your soul to the devil,” he tells the Tennessean. When he began working for Contech in 2011, he was given the number 666 to use for clocking in; he had it changed. When an alteration to the time-clock system made his number 666 three months later, he quit the job, but came back after the firm apologized. A company representative is “completely at a loss for words.”
Amazingly, his tale must share the title of weirdest tax-related story making the rounds: KVAL reports that an Oregon man is suing the government and an IRS agent who he claims coerced him into having sex by threatening to slap him with a 40% tax penalty. Vincent Burroughs says Dora Abrahamson alerted him that he was being audited in August 2011, sent him texts about wanting to give him massages, and ultimately showed up, scantily dressed, at his home, at which time he finally gave in. The Register-Guard reports that Burroughs is seeking unspecified punitive damages and, shockingly, says Abrahamson’s behavior caused “a rift in his relationship with his significant other.”
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James Smith
February 7, 2013 at 10:07 am
As I mentioned before, just when you think the religious reich can’t be any more wacko, they prove you wrong by showing that they can be a lot more wacky than you thought.
My older daughter was a manager at an Air Force Base PX in Kansas. She said she has had people refuse to pay when their receipt shows 666 anywhere on it, especially if it was the total. She has had to delete or add items to change the total. Sometimes, she says, they would just walk out without their purchases.
Marsha Woerner
February 7, 2013 at 12:02 pm
I would say “you’re kidding”, but I know better!
Anonymous
February 7, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Guess there will soon be a job opening at his company then amirite? He also said he won’t be able to file his taxes til he gets a new number. Yeah good luck with hiding from the IRS on that one dumbass.