friedo
February 16, 2006, 6:37pm
1
This story is incredible. I didn’t think stuff like this happened outside of soap operas and midseason episodes of 24 .
Raymond Power Jr. stepped out of his life some time on Aug. 1, 2005, the last day he awoke in Westchester County as a lawyer and New Rochelle resident, a 57-year-old husband and father of two, a Boy Scout leader and churchgoer.
Within two days, he had stumbled into a new, uncertain and evidently unwanted life: as a homeless man in Chicago who could remember nothing of his former existence but for a semblance of his name: Jay Tower.
More here . If you don’t have a NY Times account there’s also a Chicago Tribune writeup here .
Apparently this perfectly normal dude from New Rochelle somehow ended up in a Chicago homeless shelter with no idea who he was. He was missing for three years before someone recognized his picture on TV and he got back in touch with his family.
“Three years? They said it was just seven months! Gaah, it’s starting again!!!”
Giraffe
February 16, 2006, 6:48pm
3
This story just gave me explosive amnesia.
I had amnesia once, but I forgot about it.
Plynck
February 16, 2006, 7:04pm
5
This happened to him right after he rented “Donnie Brasco”.
friedo
February 16, 2006, 7:10pm
6
It was for three years, but his family came down with mass amnesia two years and five months ago.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Cliffy
February 16, 2006, 7:35pm
7
That’s OK, swinger. Pull up a groove and get fabulous.
–Cliffy
bouv
February 16, 2006, 7:41pm
8
Let me get this straight…does anyone here not have amnesia?
I have never had amnesia, to the best of my recollection.
How long before they cast Tom Hanks as the lead actor?
Ah, I remember well my bout with amnesia …
lieu
February 16, 2006, 9:02pm
12
Synapses… can’t live with 'em, can’t fire 'em.
I can’t wait for this thread to be reposted later because the OP forgot it was already posted.
jali
February 17, 2006, 1:22pm
18
Best one liner response IMHO.
I don’t know…
Damn, I thought I’d get to make the first All My Circuits reference…
bouv
February 17, 2006, 4:14pm
20
Heh, same here, and yet I was the third reference!