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Comments on: NY corpse attempts to cash welfare cheque

Oops! 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 11:55 GMT

Happy

Only in America!

Weekend at Bernies III 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 11:58 GMT

Pirate

At least this sequel sounds more exciting than the first two 'Weekend at Bernies' movies.

Lucky they weren't in the UK 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:12 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'.

@Andrew 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:59 GMT

Happy

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.....

Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:00 GMT

Coat

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...

Not in the UK. 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:37 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.

Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:04 GMT

Unhappy

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.

Dead Wrong 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 15:20 GMT

Coat

no more jokes here please, you lot are flogging a dead ermm horse..

Dons hat and leaves..

@oxo 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 15:29 GMT

Flame

> 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... :-)

Re: Lucky they weren't in the UK 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 15:53 GMT

Unhappy

not forgetting to charge the corpse with committing an indecent act with an office chair and placing him on the sex offenders register.

Re: Dead Wrong 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 17:25 GMT

Happy

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!)

Titsup 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 17:50 GMT

Flame

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.

Need biometrics!! 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 18:14 GMT

Coat

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.

Sure is lucky he wasn't in the UK 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 18:39 GMT

Coat

Over here, he wouldn't have a welfare cheque anyway because they would have sent it with a courier. TNT of course...

@oxo 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 01:06 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.

@one of the anon 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 01:27 GMT

Coat

"Dons hat and leaves.."

Surely you actually mean "Dons hat, and leaves.." otherwise WFT were you doing with Don's leaves?

@ Steve Welsh 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 05:15 GMT

Coat

And Don's hat, for that matter.

usa is bigger so odds of finding a dead body is higher. 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 08:11 GMT

Dead Vulture

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. :)

@oxo 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 09:54 GMT

Go on then. Goodbye. Don't stay in touch. Hope you enjoy your new life in Eutopia.

You still here?

what!...no Paris ??? 

Posted Friday 11th January 2008 01:33 GMT

Paris Hilton

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.

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