NY corpse attempts to cash welfare cheque
Andrew Carpenter
Weekend at Bernies III #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:13 GMT

At least this sequel sounds more exciting than the first two 'Weekend at Bernies' movies.
Anonymous Coward
Oops! #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:13 GMT

Only in America!
Anonymous Coward
Lucky they weren't in the UK #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:24 GMT
They have first been arrested for murder, then with supplying a class A drug. Not that they'd investigate a death, determine a cause, then if the cause is suspicious, investigating the crime, then arrest the most likely suspect.
Nope, that's not how it works now in the UK anymore.
You find a dead TV presenter in the bath, you immediately arrest the grieving boyfriend for murder. If he's not there, arrest the nearest calm person for being 'too calm'.
TeeCee
@Andrew #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:02 GMT

You're on the right track. Now try spinning out "being bloody silly by wheeling a corpse to a shop to cash a cheque and getting arrested" to fill a two hour movie. I think you'll find it comes out just like the first two.....
oxo
Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:35 GMT

He was lucky to *only* get arrested. At least they didn't chase him onto a tube train then stand on him and blow his brains out.
Time to find another country to live methinks...
Paul
Not in the UK. #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:18 GMT
In the UK they would have probably got the cash and it would have taken the DWP 6 months to notice he was even dead, who would have then spent 3 years trying to take a dead guy to court for the overpaid amount.
Joe Stalin
Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:18 GMT

Here they would have arrested the dead guy for obstructing the side walk. Also 'with his trousers at half mast and a jacket covering his "midesection" ' they have done the corpse for indicent exposure just to make sure they get a conviction.
Anonymous Coward
@oxo #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 15:59 GMT

> Time to find another country to live methinks...
I wholly agree... I nominate Afghanistan or Iraq... your life assurance company might not be so pleased though... :-)
Damian Gabriel Moran
Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 16:35 GMT

not forgetting to charge the corpse with committing an indecent act with an office chair and placing him on the sex offenders register.
Anonymous Coward
Dead Wrong #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 16:49 GMT

no more jokes here please, you lot are flogging a dead ermm horse..
Dons hat and leaves..
Mike Moyle
Re: Dead Wrong #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 19:42 GMT

no more jokes here please, you lot are flogging a dead ermm horse..
Dons hat and leaves..
Why are you wearing leaves? Wouldn't a jacket make more sense? (BoomBOOM!)
Phil
Titsup #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 19:42 GMT

I thought the article was educational - I never realized that titsup was a military term (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance) - I always thought it just meant flat on your back as it tits-up - who would have thunked it.
Tom Haczewski
Sure is lucky he wasn't in the UK #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 20:02 GMT

Over here, he wouldn't have a welfare cheque anyway because they would have sent it with a courier. TNT of course...
Herby
Need biometrics!! #
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 20:23 GMT

Of course, the answer to all of this is biometrics. Oh, you need a fingerprint, no problem, I'll get him in here to give it to you. Never mind that the finger has assumed room temperature (or lower). Pay no attention. I have the ID card here somewhere.....
Out the door in great haste.
kain preacher
@oxo #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 01:11 GMT
"He was lucky to *only* get arrested. At least they didn't chase him onto a tube train then stand on him and blow his brains out."
He was in NYC he wouldn't get that far. NYPD shot a guy 41 times because they thought his wallet was gun. NYPD also raped a man with a broom stick in the cop shop.
Steve Welsh
@one of the anon #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 01:33 GMT

"Dons hat and leaves.."
Surely you actually mean "Dons hat, and leaves.." otherwise WFT were you doing with Don's leaves?
Sam Therapy
@ Steve Welsh #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 06:35 GMT

And Don's hat, for that matter.
tony trolle
usa is bigger so odds of finding a dead body is higher. #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 09:09 GMT

Google news on "palm desert body dumpster".
Just down the road from where I was working someone left a body outside a dumpster for a maintenance worker to find and load. Maybe the "finding" out part was not in the equation at the time; cannot say too much as information not released by police yet. :)
Anonymous Coward
@oxo #
Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 10:00 GMT
Go on then. Goodbye. Don't stay in touch. Hope you enjoy your new life in Eutopia.
You still here?
Paul
what!...no Paris ??? #
Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:41 GMT

I was soooooo hoping Paris Hilton had something to do with all this, especially when reading "with his trousers at half mast and a jacket covering his "midesection".......but alas no.