How wrong would your life have to go for you to consider faking your own fatal demise?

You might be thinking that getting caught for some sort of serious crime is the only reason

anyone would go to such extreme lengths. But amazingly, some people have faked their own death

for the smallest, strangest, and most insane reasons. From wanting to avoid marriage ditch their friends or

just avoid a cell phone fine, there's no reason too stupid for these people. And how some people

have faked their death is almost as insane as the reason itself. Prepare for the worst as we

reveal the craziest ways and stupidest reasons people fake

their own deaths. If this episode was titled Complaints I Have About My Phone Service Provider, it would be

four and a half hours long. Everyone has different ways of handling the constant frustrations

our phone companies inflict upon us, but Corey Taylor of Chicago took

his fury with his provider Verizon to new extremes.

Back in 2007, Corey learned he'd have to pay $175 to get out of his long-term phone contract

with Verizon early. Not keen to fork over the dough, he searched for a cheaper way out.

After learning that wireless companies cancel the contracts of their deceased customers,

Taylor made up a fake death certificate and had a friend fax it to Verizon.

You might not believe it, but for a little while this actually worked.

Or it did, until Verizon's eagle-eyed billing department, who deal with stunts like this

all the time, suspected that Corey might not be dead at all.

In the end, Corey had to cough up the $175.

I feel your pain, Corey.

Nice try, though.

In 2010, Mexican police issued an arrest warrant for one Lenin Carbolito, who'd been involved

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