OBITUARY



Scott Corser

1936-1998




Scott Corser was an old-time resident of Dana Point, who lived here in the 1970s and 1980s. He was best remembered as the proprietor of Laguna Custom Shutters, a company that he founded and ran before selling it in the 1980s. In 1980 he was involved in the so-called "Pyramid Games," which he saw as a messianic route to freedom for the common man from the burden of mortgages and lifetimes spent repaying indebtedness to bankers. His most famous game was on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, at which he was arrested. At the time, the bankers were having anxiety-ridden meetings to discuss what to do about the fact that they were running out of $100 bills every day by noon. (The basic unit of account for most pyramid games was $100). Scott was busy "sponsoring" new people into the games using his winnings, because he genuinely believed that the games offered the average man a way out of a lifetime of drudgery.

The former Dana Point resident was one of two people who died Monday, 5 January, after a 34-year-old woman apparently veered to the right shoulder of Santiago Canyon Road, and then jerked back across the lane into the path of an oncoming van, which was being driven by Mr. Corser.
Scott Corser, 61, who was driving southbound in a Chevrolet van, saw her car heading across both lanes and tried to slow down seconds before he was struck. Paramedics managed to revive Mr. Corser, but he subsequently died at Western Medical Center-Santa Ana. Services for Mr. Corser will be held Sunday, 11 January. Scott will be sorely missed by those who love him, which includes most of Dana Point, and many people throughout southern California.

God Speed Man…



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