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Two guys are pushing a dead man in an office chair, see, trying to cash his Social Security check, and… No, that’s not a joke, it really happened in New York.
What’s amazing is they were charged with attempted forgery, but it turned out it was not illegal to wheel a chair around with a body in it!
Once word of this gets out, who knows where it will lead, what with this being New York City and all? I’m predicting…
- A Fifth Avenue parade, called Remains to be Seen, to show off the recently deceased
- A Central Park cadaver race, named, of course, Dead Heat!
- An ad campaign where a furniture maker claims its chairs can roll corpses across town the fastest
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I predict it’ll be made into a movie. They could call it “Dead Man Rolling”.
I thought they did away with the death tax.
They might have gotten far more by pulling a Raoul.
Check and check mate.
I guess it depends on how you push them.