Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store

NEW YORK -- Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.

When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend decided to play "Weekend at Bernie's." The roommate, James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, wheeled the limp, semi-clothed body down Ninth Avenue to the Pay-O-Matic where they tried to cash the $355 check.

The scheme unraveled when the clerk asked for two forms of ID, and Mr. O'Hare said, "Can his death certificate count for one?"

Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store, via The Daily Blague