In m'time a dyin, ye'll need th'armchair

When cashing your dead buddy's Social Security check, don't worry too much about bringing him along. Carting a corpse through the city isn't a serious crime
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Detective Travis Rapp has seen his share of corpses, but this was new: two men wheeling a rigid, pale body down a Manhattan street in a red office chair, drawing a crowd of suspicious onlookers. Looking out the window of the restaurant where he was having lunch, Rapp initially assumed "it was a mannequin or a dummy," he said. "I thought it was a joke, honestly."
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One immediate complication in the scheme was the chair had no arms
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A woman who described herself as a family friend but did not want to be identified by name said in a telephone interview on Thursday that a sister of the dead man .. went to his apartment on Tuesday afternoon to check on him because he was ill. The friend said the sister .. was told by a police officer there that her brother had died and that he could be found at the Pay-O-Matic, a check-cashing store on Ninth Avenue near 51st Street
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Two men who tried to cash a dead friend's £175 welfare cheque hauled his corpse to the bank in an office chair after being told he had to be present for the transaction link

According to the complaint, an employee at the Pay-O-Matic, the check-cashing store, on Ninth Avenue, told the police that Mr. O’Hare had tried to cash the $355 check in Mr. Cintron’s name. When the employee asked where Mr. Cintron was, Mr. O’Hare pointed outside to where Mr. Cintron’s body was propped up in the chair, according to the complaint
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Cintron's sister .. said, "Some days he couldn't walk so good, and Jimmy would take him to the check-cashing place. Maybe he was alive and died on his way"
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An ambulance arrived and the paramedics reported the figure in the chair had been dead for a good 12 hours ... "Oh, my God! My friend is gone!" said the other man
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Free on bail on charges of wheeling his best friend's corpse to a Hell's Kitchen check-cashing shop in a scheme to cash the deceased's last welfare check, David Daloia said yesterday he was amazed at the attention his stunt is getting. "I've robbed banks and I didn't get that much coverage!" he gushed. link

By TOM HAYS | Associated Press Writers
5:35 PM EST, January 11, 2008

NEW YORK - Sprung from jail and soaked by rain, two destitute-yet-defiant pals accused of trying to cash a corpse's Social Security check turned up at police headquarters in lower Manhattan on Friday to demand belongings seized during their arrest.

David J. Daloia and James O'Hare --. with a Britney-style scrum of photographers and reporters in tow -- were stopped by officers at a security checkpoint and turned away. The reason: Neither had photo identification ...

"It's all (expletive) made up," <Daloia> said as he slogged back to a subway station. "I can't get a fair trial. ... There's no constitution except the newspapers." ...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--deadmanscheck0111jan11,0,3320722.story

... "He looked like that every morning," Daloia said, of Cintron's appearance the day in question. "I didn't know he was dead. He had $500 in his pocket. I had $200. Why would I rob the guy?" ...

For months now, O'Hare and Daloia said Friday, they had engaged in the same routine: Three times a month, they would set Cintron in the chair and take him to a check cashing spot where he would cash his Social Security check ...

http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2008/01/12/news/national/157240589257147.txt

We only get our check(s) once a month.

Something's fishy here.

"For months now, O'Hare and Daloia said Friday, they had engaged in the same routine: Three times a month, they would set Cintron in the chair and take him to a check cashing spot where he would cash his Social Security check.

Old, frail and unemployed, the self-described holdovers of Hells Kitchen's racier past say they cared for Cintron, 66, whose health had deteriorated over the years. "I'd never hurt the guy," Daloia said. "We took care of him. We wiped up after him."

While Cintron appears to have died of natural causes, as of Friday, a cause of death and how long he had been dead was still being investigated by the New York City Medical Examiner's office."

(Stolen from Keith Olbermann) :rofl:

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