Legacy Matters

Wheeling a corpse to cash a check

So I'm sick and tired with the flu but how can I not pass on the story about the two men who pushed a corpse seated in an office chair along the sidewalk in New York City to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man's Social Security check.

Pair wheel corpse to store to cash check

The medical examiner said that Virgilio Cintron, 66, died of natural causes.  The two men who were arrested, both 65 and unemployed, saw an opportunity they couldn't pass up.

As the New York Times reports

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,
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“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”