Just stop for a moment! You process WC on one of your employees because he quote unquote hurt his lower back on the job. You do the right thing. Take down all the necessary information and you immediately call it in to the WC Insurance. Because "That's the right thing to do". You send him off to the local medical center to be looked at immediately and even have another co-worker driver him so he isn't in more discomfort! Because "That's the right thing to do". He gets x-rays, etc and is told to stay out of work for a week. Not a problem. You tell him to take his prescribed muscle relaxers and take it easy and everything will be okay. Because "That's the right thing to do".

Week later doctor's office calls you and tells you he needs to go see a specialist because with all of his complaining he might have a more serious problem. So without hesitation you agree and off he goes. The next thing you hear he will be out of work for six to eight months for lower back disk injury and will require surgery. Oh No! you think how awful. You call him and tell him you are prepared to help him in any way you can.

NOW I STEP INTO THE PICTURE!!

4 months later I am driving home from work one day and low and behold there he is!!!! Way up high on the roof of a local building shingling away!! Hmmmmmm! It's A Miracle!!! No wait It's...It's FRAUD!!! Being that I live only 2 more minutes from my home, I scurry to my house and grab my trusty ole camera. Yuppers!!! Be A Star!! Strike A Pose!!! I took about 40 pictures of this MORON!! Digital camera of course and almost peeed myself as I rushed home to upload the pictures onto my computer so I could send them off to the WC Insurance.

So I did!!! BAM!! Better than Cooking my friends. They set up surveillance and..... BUSTED! Just like Cops but without "Bad Boys Bad Boys Whatcha Gonna Do? Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You"? playing in the background. So I hummed it for them. It's ambience, what do you expect? Haaa! Let's see - He has been fired! He has to pay back serious WC payments and than some. And he is still waiting trial. He's going to the "Big House"! FORRRR SURE!!!!

So talk about ugly!! Here are we! True legitimate cases of folks some with WC. Who need WC Benefits and yet have to fight government beauracacy and more damm red tape than the law should allow. This is a prime example of why the system is so screweed up. I talk to the young punk after he got "caught", and asked him what he was hoping to accomplish? It wasn't like he didn't know in advance that he wasn't allowed to do this and of course his reply to me was "F**** you" real nice ha! So now I am a local watchdog for WC. I keep an eye out for folks who claim to be unable to wipe there own buttocks and yet for some unexplainable reason can "walk on water"!

I'm a little slow at it right now because I'm dealing with lot of pain, but I'll be up and Adam again real soon. And hopefully someday we can bring the WC Insurance Program back down to a more reasonable user friendly program inwhich it was originally intended to be. I'm sorry this is so long but I really thought this was a neat little story and I wanted to share!

Chin Up!!!!

Mark