Two men "carried a dead man into a post office" in effort to claim his pension

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: Two men "carried a dead man into a post office" in effort to claim his pension | Boing Boing

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[Tamsin_Bailey]

Weekend Withdrawl At Bernie’s.

[shichae]

@thomdunn

“I’m not an eejit to walk into Hoseys with a dead man and collect his money,”

Even though Declan Haughney is Irish, once I read “eejit”, I couldn’t help but to read that line with Groundskeeper Willie’s voice.

[fiddlingfrog]

I thought this sounded familiar.

Men bring propped-up corpse to post office in attempt to collect deceased's pension check

Originally published at: Men bring propped-up corpse to post office in attempt to collect deceased's pension check | Boing Boing …

Men bring propped-up corpse to post office in attempt to collect deceased's...

[Brainspore]

@fiddlingfrog

I thought this sounded familiar.

There’s still life in this story yet, at least according to the guys dragging it onto the front page.

[fiddlingfrog]

[Papasan]

Well, it’s not like he needed the pension any longer.

[Shuck]

The weird thing is, even back in January I could have sworn it wasn’t the first time I’d read about it… must have been a similar situation some years ago.

[hecep]

Seems legit.

[anothernewbbaccount]

@Brainspore

There’s still life in this story yet, at least according to the guys dragging it onto the front page.

Yep - there’s something smelly about this story. As well as the fact these guys tried to stiff the post office. They should have had more rigor.

@Shuck

I could have sworn it wasn’t the first time I’d read about it…

Last time I read it, it was some locals in Italy.

[semiotix]

Well it’s not like he was using it.

[RickMycroft]

Did they do a post mortem?

[fiddlingfrog]