Do You See What I See?
Wade Gallegos, a private security guard in Des Moines, Iowa, summoned his supervisor and another guard to be a witness: a group of ghosts were standing next to a car, he said, pointing out the apparition. Neither the supervisor nor the other guard saw anything. No evidence of intoxication was found, but Gallegos was fired anyway. The security company contested his application for unemployment benefits, which led to a hearing. Administrative Law Judge G. Ken Renegar ruled that while “such beliefs do render the claimant unfit to act as a security guard,” seeing things in the dark does not qualify as misconduct, and Gallegos was awarded benefits. After the hearing, Gallegos said he could not explain what he saw. “It was kind of like one of those ‘out-of-body’ experiences,” he said. (Des Moines Register) ...Whereas his supervisor apparently thought it was more of an ‘out-of-mind’ experience.
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