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Fake David Gilmour
« on: May 02, 2013, 08:13:16 AM »
From St. Cloud, about 65 miles from downtown Minneapolis: Man claims to be Pink Floyd singer to avoid medical bill

To be fair, I wouldn't know David Gilmour from Adam either, but they let him run up almost $100K in medical bills before confronting him.  :o  Then there's the fake English accent and the ridiculous story about how the band was touring in Canada and he just happened to stop into St. Cloud for treatment.  ???

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Re: Fake David Gilmour
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2013, 11:21:52 AM »
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Re: Fake David Gilmour
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2013, 02:40:49 PM »
I've seen him in a local pub and his houseboat is about 1/2 a mile from here...

Whine on you crazy for having let him rack such a large bill Doctor...
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Re: Fake David Gilmour
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2013, 08:37:20 PM »
Wait a minute. How does a guy show up at a hospital and rack up a $100K bill in one day by being treated and released? Every news source is reporting "racking up a bill up to $100,000" or "nearly $100,000" but that's very hard to believe. Where did that number come from? If a hospital charges $100K for being treated and released, that's a real news story.

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Re: Fake David Gilmour
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2013, 08:56:54 PM »
I wondered about that too. His second trip was four days after the first. Even if he stayed three days the first time and came back less than 24 hours later, how could it be that much?

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Re: Fake David Gilmour
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2013, 09:01:07 PM »
Well what a facility BILLS and what they actually expect to GET are usually different... I don't know the numbers where I work now, but at my old job we would charge something like $4000 for an MRI scan and the Dr's interpretation, and if we got $1000 or so from the insurance we were happy. So I guess it's possible he didn't actually use $100K of services. Although we got a bill for my daughter's last surgery that was supposed to go to the insurance and not us, and it was for almost $16K for a less than an hour procedure...
At least he didn't claim to be Phil Lynott...  ;D
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