Real Life "Weekend at Bernie’s"

Here's a crazy story: Two men place a corpse in an office chair with wheels. Then they push him along a crowded NYC sidewalk to a check-cashing place to cash the poor dead man's last Social Security check!!!

When Mr. Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment recently, his roommate and a friend came up with a brilliant idea to cash his $355 check.

The roommate, The Brilliant James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron’s body in the chair at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon(Jan. 09), the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.

The store clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself. So, the two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was obviously getting people's attention.

Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A detective eating lunch at a nearby Empanada Mama saw the crowd and notified the police.

Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office!!! [LOL, I wanna see this in a movie. Hollywood needs to buy a movie rights to the story!]

The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud. There was no sign of foul play in Mr. Cintron’s death, the police said.