Seemed like a good idea at the time?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5473JM20090508

"A Florida woman has been indicted for keeping her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.

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"Police found the decaying body of her mother, Timmie Jordan, on a bed in a spare bedroom at the mother's home in late March, when they were called to investigate a report of nuisance cats."

Crazy people always have a lot of cats.