We did not pay much heed to the below when we saw it posted on Huffington Post a week ago.

“85-Year-Old Oregonian, Suing Big Bank Over Fake Suicide Call

“Sessions told the collector that such abuse may cause other customers to take their own lives, which allegedly prompted a line of questioning that included the collector asking Sessions: “But…if you did [commit suicide], how would you do it – hurt yourself?” Courthouse News reports.

“Within a half hour police arrived at Sessions’ door and forcibly took her to the hospital. She was released hours later after hospital staff said they “strongly” believed Sessions was not a threat to herself or others, ABC News reports. But the incident left Sessions stuck with a hospital bill worth $1,055, for which she is seeking compensation, as well as $250,000 in punitive damages.

However, an impoverished artist acquaintance from Manhattan related to us how a bill collector from Texas had called 911 and reported that she was contemplating suicide.   Several representatives of the police and other departments arrived at her door, forced her to sit down and talk with them, and then took her against her will to a location where she was further questioned and given tests, before finally being allowed to go home about nine hours later.

She told the police that she had never called 911 but that didn’t make any difference.  Whether the police took action against the party making the false report is not known to her.

The bill collector represented a major national bank located in New York City. 

Bill collectors usually work on a high commission.  They are usually not the most savory of characters.  Apparently, retaliatory actions against older people who cannot pay are not that isolated.