Anchorage, AK -18 Feb. 2009- Staff. Utilities workers had to trek through frigid and icy conditions to a remote hillside 20 miles outside of Anchorage to settle Herman Moses’ account. While they deal with delinquent accounts on a regular basis, the workers were lost for words when Moses offered them sevearal of his dead relatives as payment. The Anchorage police department eventually resolved the situation, but not before Moses insisted on his bizarre proposal for several hours. Moses’ power and water bills, which hadn’t been paid in nearly 10 months, were lying in a heap by the door when they arrived, the workers say. When confronted face to face by the threat of having his power and water shut off, however, he offered a barter: several lamps, a vacuum cleaner and a non-functioning television, all which Moses claimed housed the spirits of his mother, aunt and many cousins. After a long discussion, the utilities workers called the police to mediate. Shortly after police arrive...
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