Wednesday, February 02, 2022

5412 - Stand up straight!




Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension.

Deceased man ‘propped up’ by two men as they walked into the building in County Carlow on Friday morning.


Here's the story. And there is a link to a follow-up story on that page.

And we thought all the dummies were in the US.


And today is 02/02/2022 in the US.
But it's 02/02/2022 in England.


16 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

Sigh. Greed is an ugly thing.

John A Hill said...

Crazy people are everywhere!

Bilbo said...

The American version of this story would be two guys in a Florida retirement community taking their dead neighbor to a polling place to vote for Der Furor.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

At last! The British and American way of listing dates converge!

MarkD60 said...

I was going to say, "Wait, that's not a joke, it really happened! Just the other day!!

Kathy G said...

I wonder if they thought they could really get away with it.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Those idiots were dead wrong to try such a stunt! Shame!

Lady M said...

They must have been inspired by "Waking Ned Divine".

Mike said...

Sue - Agree.

John - Agree.

Bill - Agree.

Deb - Agree.

Mark - Agree.

Kathy - My guess is yes.

Shaw - Agree.

Lady - Agree.

Well, Kathy messed me up. I almost could agree with everybody.

Mr. Shife said...

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, right?

jenny_o said...

I worry about what that poor man might have gone through BEFORE dying, if those were his relatives or friends who were trying to claim his money ... People can be so heartless.

Mike said...

Matt - Agree.

Jenny - Agree.

😁

River said...

You have to wonder what goes on in their minds.

Mike said...

River - Agree.

Cloudia said...

What's his name Bernie and they were headed for his vacation home?

Mike said...

Cloudia - Who's Bernie and why did you put him in the story? 😁