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Two cuffed for wheeling dead pal to Pay-O-Matic

Published Wednesday 9th January 2008 11:46 GMT

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Oops! 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 11:55 GMT
Happy

Only in America!

Weekend at Bernies III 

By Andrew Carpenter
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 

By Anonymous Coward
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 

By TeeCee
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 

By oxo
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. 

By Paul
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 

By Joe Stalin
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 

By Anonymous Coward
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 

By Anonymous Coward
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 

By Damian Gabriel Moran
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 

By Mike Moyle
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 

By Phil
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!! 

By Herby
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 

By Tom Haczewski
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 

By kain preacher
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 

By Steve Welsh
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 

By Sam Therapy
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. 

By tony trolle
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 

By Anonymous Coward
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 ??? 

By Paul
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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