X-Message-Number: 3994
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 06:05:33 +0100
From: Trygve Bauge <>
Subject: BEWARE OF SVEIN HINDAL, (elaboration)
PRESS RELEASE REGARDING SVEIN HINDALS FAILURE TO PAY FOR
HIS MOTHER FROEYA HINDALS CRYONIC SUSPENSION:
February the 28th 1995
To Svein Hindal,
I am preparing this and a much harsher press release regarding your
willful and fraudulent failure to pay me what you owe me from the
time you hired me to freeze your mother Froeya.
Either you start making payments immediately, and the first payment by
March the 10th of 1995 or I publicize how you have defrauded me.
I ask $500 a month starting immediately and lasting until the debth
has been paid in full.
Trygve
PRESS RELEASE
In order to raise money towards my grand father's transfer to
liquid Nitrogen, I am asking your assistance in collecting some money
that is owed me from another cryonic suspension I did a few years ago:
WARNING TO CRYONISISTS EVERYWHERE:
In late December 1990, Svein Hindal, a retired school teacher from
Oslo, tracked me down and asked me to organize the cryonic suspension
of his mother Froeya. He promissed to reimburse me for my phone
bills and other expenses, pay me $20 an hour for my work, and pay
20 percent interest on any outstanding bills. His lawyer Ole Bratteli
even told me that Svein is of the old school, and someone that pays
his bills. On these conditions I organized his mother's cryonic
suspension and she is now stored at the Cryonic Institute. Hindal
paid CI their $28,000++, but he never paid me. I spent about $1,350
on long distance calls and more than 100 hours assisting him and
working out an agreement and payment plans, and other follow up
totaling $2,200 as of April 1991. Not counting countless hours and
phone calls trying to collect the money later. He has acknowledged
the debt repeatedly, but has never paid more than about 100 kr or
15 dollars. As a result I had to take money earmarked for my grand
father's continued suspension and use this to cover my work and
the phone bills and other costs I had had in helping Svein. If I
had known that he would not reimburse me I would never have agreed
to help him in the first place and his mother would not have been
suspended, since I was the one who put him in touch with all the
necessary contacts and talked CI into changing their contract and
accepting his mother. I basically made available to him the whole
network of contacts I had built when I organized the cryonic
suspension of my grand father. And I was on the phone many nights
in a row to secure the fastest possible response and to follow up
that everything was done and every hassle overcome.
He promissed me a debt certificate but I never received it.
Trying to collect the money while I was in the US was very
expensive and futile. Now that I am in Norway I have a better shot
at it. I am not letting him be stalling any longer.
He still owes me $3,350 plus interest or about $6,000 by now. My
mother and I are paying 14 and 15 percent interest on
money we have had to borrow ourselves, and even more on my mother's
credit cards. And we were not willing to charge him less than we
had to pay ourselves on the same money. When Svein approached me
he was a stranger and I was not giving away several thousand
dollars in cash and work to a stranger.
He has several times acknowledged the debt and promissed to pay
without ever paying. The fellow owns an apartment house in
Stavanger. While the market was down I was willing to grant him
a payment extension, but the real estate market is now up. And he
could easily refinance or get a larger morgage to pay what he owes me.
And this would certainly make it easier for me to finance
my grand father's transfer to a safer location.
Svein still wants to be frozen himself. He doesn't want publicity,
however I have to make the case public and take him to court to get
the money that is owed me. I have not promissed secrecy, and am
forced to go public with Svein Hindal's fraud so to get my money
back.
Let this be a warning to other cryonisists who might be
dealing with Svein Hindal in the future.
To my friends in the cryonic movement: please contact Svein
and ask him to pay up:
Svein Hindal
Hjalmar Johnsens gate 14b,
4019 Stavanger
phone 011-47-51-584706
His attorney:
Ole Bratteli
Ovre Holmegate #22,
4006 Stavanger
ph 011-47-51-894710 and 51-656490
Phone bills
710 AT&T end of December to January 7th see receipt
33 MCI December 27th see receipt
743 subtotal
27 AT&T January 7th to February 7th see receipt
90 MCI December 28th to January 21st see receipt
117 subtotal
17 MCI follow up January 28th to Feb 15th see receipt
450 AT&T follow up to March 10th see receipt
467 subtotal
50 estimate of faxes by Jim, John and me
100 estimate of mom's calls from Norway (she helped out)
1,477 subtotal phone related expenses
1,500 dollars rounded
Actually more when one take into account that
I also made lots of 1-800 calls to Jim Yount at ACS, that
ACS then had to pay for at their end.
I promissed to reimburse Jim for his expenses and time
and include his assistance as part of the total expenses I had
acrued and to pay him when I got paid. Since I was never paid,
he was never paid either.
There was also follow up calls to Svein and his attorney
in March of 1991 to work out a debt certificate that they
promissed me but bever provided.
The attached receipts indicate that I had almost 500 dollars
in phone bills with AT&T to Norway from Feb 15th to March 10th,
many of these calls were related to Svein Hindal.
Labor
2,200 About 110 hours making phone calls, answering the phone,
thinking out solutions, searching my files for information,
planning, preparing, waiting on phone calls & odd tasks in between
phone calls. Some days went around the clock because the time
difference. The work came in 7 bursts: organizing the freezing
in Norway, assisting with working out a contract, working out
the transfer, tracking down Hindals money transfer to CI that
got lost and was returned to Norway, and had to be found to not
screw up the scheduled transfer, tracking the transfer every
step of the way, follow up and answering calls from the client
offering support and "hand holding" that continued well into
the spring of 1991.
Basically I knew from my grand father's suspension and
transfer that everything could go wrong, thus I called and
double checked everything every step of the way.
Also time was spent negotiating payments and a debt
certificate both of which I was promissed but non of which I
received.
Jim and others spend a lot of time too that has not been
billed.
3,700 total expense
350 dollars discount if he pays up, a buffer against nitpicking
on specific items, so that he can't claim to have been over
billed, this included the 15 dollars he has paid too.
3,350 dollars owed
My notes from the time indicate that he actually owed me
between 4,000 and 4,400 . However when I got deported I lost
most of my archive and I am now only in posession of enough
bills and receipts to document what I have listed here.
2,680 interest 20 percent interest or 670 dollars a year times 4
years. Norway doesn't permit compound interest (or interest
on interest).
6,030 total owed
One can however charge for collection and attorney's fees.
Something I haven't done yet.
My mother advanced to me what Hindal owes me.
Thus I now owe her the money.
And we both want to use it on my grand father.
I billed him for about $2,500 of the expenses in mid January of
1991 before his mother was transfered to CI and before I had the
full overview over all the expenses. The above is a more complete
bill. The above bill is fully backed up by receipts that I have
sent him. The preliminary bill too was fully backed up by then
attached phone and work receipts but was never paid.
Any assistance in collecting the above outstanding debt, would be
welcome. I am sure Jim Yount and the undertaker her in Norway
would like to be reimbursed too for anything that might be
outstanding. Norway's largest newspaper VG helped Hindal hire me
back in
December of 1990. There are lots of witnesses that knows that he
owes me this money. The news paper has been sitting on the story
since 1991 out of respect to Hindals request to them that the story
be kept secret. The paper does not have a favorable impression of
him since he first contacted the newspaper and then got cold
feet about publising the story.
Personally I have always been free to publish the story but
have waited in the hope that he would pay me. Since he has not kept
his part of the bargain the paper is now free to publish.
Trygve
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