This Is Hysterical: A True Life "Weekend At Bernie's"

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I don't know how many of your are familiar with or ever have seen that 1989 movie "Weekend At Bernie's" It's hysterical..where two characters played by Andrew McCarthy(Larry) and Jon Silverman(Richard) who are invited to their boss's home discover him dead..the boss, played by Terry Kiser is to have a whoopdedo party later on, throughout the movie, Larry and Richard are toting around Bernie's dead body around to actually make it look like he's still alive. None of the guests at the party catch on that Bernie is actually dead. Well a real life episode of this occurred...here's the article: Men Wheel Dead Roommate to Check Cashing Store, Arrested for Trying to Cash His Social Security Check Wednesday, January 09, 2008 NEW YORK — 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." The entire article is here and there's a link for a video of the news broadcast http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321197,00.html Well, when I heard this, I'm sorry but I couldn't stop laughing..then I have a warped sense of humor---but wow, those two guys must have been really desperate to cash such a relatively small amount of money..sure I could see if it were thousands of dollars..but $355??