They Carried Their Dead Friend to the Check-Cashing Place
We are all laughing at two 60-somethings whose roommate, also in his 60s died, leaving behind his $350 social security check. It’s not funny that the man died [of natural causes, by the way]. The comedy is what happened next. The two living wheeled the dead man in a wheeled office chair down Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, to their neighborhood check-cashing outlet, with the intention of cashing the dead man’s check.
But they weren’t too swift, and did two stupid things. First dumb-ass move was the chair. I would have borrowed a wheelchair and wrapped him in blankets. But, if that wasn’t idiotic enough, they left the corpse in the office chair outside on the street. Several passers-by noticed that the man wasn’t looking too good, and called 911. The two geniuses who devised this plot were hauled off to the slammer, charged with check forgery. Evidently there is no law on the books against wheeling a dead person down the street. Incidentally, No one on the street was too shocked, just disgusted.
I have a question: what did they wheel the dead man to the check-cashing outlet for?
Even if no one noticed how could they cash the check anyway?
That these two had to wheel their dead roomie to cash his check speaks volumes for how badly our civilization takes care of our elders. Three men living together tells me they are forced to share limited means. I’m uncomfortably close to those golden years, I’m certain I’d want to share my last check with my friends.
What I see as wrong here is Congress wasting time with athletes who may or may not have used steroids while the whole world is on fire in so many places. Nero fiddled and we laugh because he was mad. Are our own legislators similarly afflicted?
Add to that the hourly, often absurd media coverage of the election circus, a president off to solve the Middle East Crisis all by himself, and a billionaire mayor planning a Ralph Nader style presidential run, turning the nation over to the Republicans again.
Man, this is brutal.
That these two had to wheel their dead roomie to cash his check speaks volumes for how badly our civilization takes care of our elders. Three men living together tells me they are forced to share limited means. I’m uncomfortably close to those golden years, I’m certain I’d want to share my last check with my friends.
What I see as wrong here is Congress wasting time with athletes who may or may not have used steroids while the whole world is on fire in so many places. Nero fiddled and we laugh because he was mad. Are our own legislators similarly afflicted?
Add to that the hourly, often absurd media coverage of the election circus, a president off to solve the Middle East Crisis all by himself, and a billionaire mayor planning a Ralph Nader style presidential run, turning the nation over to the Republicans again.
Man, this is brutal.
poverty, desperation, & WHAT? make people do these things? sorry, i`m at a loss.