Sounds like the plot of a bad 80's movie...

[Ponch ®]

NYC man accused of wheeling dead roommate down street with a pal in bid to cash his check
By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer

Updated at 8:27 a.m.

NEW YORK (AP) – Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.

David J. Dalaia and James O'Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron's body from the Manhattan apartment that O'Hare and Cintron shared to Pay-O-Matic, about a block away, spokesman Paul Browne said witnesses told police.

"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side," Browne said.


The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his $355 check, Browne said. The store's clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and O'Hare told the clerk they would go and get him, Browne said.

A police detective who was having lunch at a restaurant next to the check-cashing store noticed a crowd forming around Cintron's body, and "it's immediately apparent to him that Cintron is dead," Browne said.

The detective called uniformed New York Police Department officers at a nearby precinct. Emergency medical technicians arrived as O'Hare and Dalaia were preparing to wheel Cintron's body into the check-cashing store, Browne said. Police arrested Dalaia and O'Hare there, he said.

Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died of natural causes within the previous 24 hours, Browne said.

"He was deceased in the apartment when he was removed by these two," Browne said.

Dalaia and O'Hare, both 65, were being held by police and faced check fraud charges, Browne said.

A call to a telephone number listed for Cintron at the apartment he shared with O'Hare went unanswered Tuesday evening. Police said they didn't have an address for Dalaia or attorney information for him or O'Hare.

http://timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=77765&r=6

[PocketThunder]

Weekend at Bernies!!!!!!! 

[Ponch ®]

 

Weekend at Bernies!!!!!!! 

[BB1]

I wonder if he had any ID on him. 

[Old Moparz]

Of all places to wheel a dead body & not be noticed for a while...... in NYC. I wonder how many stiffs I walked past or rode next to on the subway?   

[Mike DC]

 
Question is  . . . How many times would Beavis & Butthead have kept wheeling that rotting corpse down the street & cashing the dude's checks if they hadn't gotten caught on the first try?   

I think Bernie was still dead for several sequels. 

[dkn1997]

It's obviously a tragedy that this man is dead, but I could not help but giggle my ass off reading that.

Can you imagine these 2 retards in the dudes' apartment discussing this plan? would love to have been a fly on the wall for that one.

If it worked for them , they may have gotten really cocky and used this poor stiff for more develish deeds:

-HOV lane "passenger"
-fart at parties and blame him
-Grab women's asses on the subway and blame him
-get a powered wheel chair and rig up a remote. send him into a bank with the stickup note.