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By Buck Wolf, About.com Guide to Weird News

Dead Guy on a Roll

Wednesday January 9, 2008

Like a scene out of "Weekend at Bernies," two men wheeled their dead friend around Manhattan sidewalks in an office chair in an attempt to cash his social security check.

"They were trying to pass him off as still being alive," a police spokesman told reporters.

The suspects left the corpse of 66-year-old Virgilio Cintron, on the street, as they sent inside the check-cashing service and when they came outside a crowd had gathered, piquing the interest of a security guard, who brought the little episode to a dead end.

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