“Weekend at Bernie’s”
The corpse in the chair was a dead giveaway
Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store Tuesday and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.
UPDATE: Heh.
“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”
Fun | Mr. Bingley | 
January 9, 2008 8:49 pm
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A co-worker told me about this today; we were cryin’ with laughter.
I had a date once, and she should have been hauled around in a wheel chair.
PS: That’s a joke! I’ve had more than one date.
Back O/T…….
I read this during lunch, and thought it was an Onion article. Nope, it’s true.
How does that Jeff Fox routine go? Oh, yeah….. “Here’s your sign!”
That’s got to be the new definition of a stiffed check.
(That’s Bill Engvald, Jeff. So here’s YOUR…{8^P)
(Oops!)
I suppose this is what happens when a person’s entire frame of reference is shaped by bad comedy movies. You start to think that even truly lame-ass schemes will work.
(A friend of mine once had a college student in his class who had a major revelation: “Movies aren’t like real life! You never see anyone brushing their teeth in the movies!” )