Dead man caught ‘checking in’ at Liverpool John Lennon Airport

[malaise]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/04/06/dead-man-caught-checking-in-at-liverpool-john-lennon-airport-100252-26181567/
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TWO women tried to smuggle a dead relative on to a plane at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The corpse was pushed in on a wheelchair – complete with sunglasses – to try to fool staff at the check in desk at JLA.

But as his two companions attempted to check him in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday, staff became suspicious and alerted the authorities.

The source said: “They tried to get him in by a wheelchair. He was wearing sunglasses.

“He was dead before they got him in the taxi and he had been dead for a day.”

It is believed the attempt to smuggle the body back was made to avoid fees for repatriation, sometimes costing up to £3,000.

Merseyside Police confirmed the man was dead on arrival at the airport.
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:rofl:

[DefenseLawyer]

1. And then they went water-skiing

[malaise]

16. I'm betting that they saw

the movie. Damn this is hilarious in a sad way - poor women just don't have the money to take him home in a coffin.

[LeftinOH]

2. "What happens when a couple of wacky pals take a dead guy... "

[yellowcanine]

3. The good news is he would not have tied up one of the bathrooms.

[Initech]

4. Wasn't that a Nick Cave song?

[rcrush]

5. And then when he rots on the plane no one is going to get the stink of death out of their clothes

Already dead for a day? I hope that flight wasnt too long you'll never get that rotting flesh smell out of your clothes.

[sui generis]

9. oh it comes out - putrescine and cadaverine

those are the two culprit molecules and they're highly soluble. But like BrylCreem(tm), just a dab'll do ya!

[rcrush]

10. I tossed a lot of clothes and furniture when my mom died

She was in the house for a few days.

[Hekate]

23. Wow, I'm sorry. I can believe that. My mom was refrigerated but by the time I got to see her...

... to say goodbye before her unembalmed remains were shipped off to the university medical school, I could detect an odor coming from her open mouth.

I can't imagine anyone thinking they could get away with what these two tried to do. They can't have been thinking too clearly.

Hekate

[sui generis]

6. yuck. Humans begin to stink very very quickly.

He had to have smelled dead.

Also did nobody notice he was a little "stiff"? At least they can't blame it on the airline food.

[Jamastiene]

15. Maybe they thought he took some Viagra.

Of course, after four hours, they should have taken him to a doctor. :P

[Sabriel]

7. "They were tipped off when the dead man ordered an in-flight meal."

This has to be the most bizarre news bit I've seen for quite some time.

[paparush]

8. I liked this movie the first time I saw it, when it was called "Weekend at Bernie's"

[no_hypocrisy]

11. "He's not dead. He's pining for the Fjords . . . . "

[FarCenter]

12. "his companions insisted he was merely asleep"

Cue the Dead Parrot routine...

[DefenseLawyer]

13. No No, he's stunned.

You stunned 'im just as he was wakin' up!

[Jamastiene]

14. Was his name Bernie?

:rofl:

[spanone]

17. weekend at bernie's

[Rambis]

18. Can he play left back?

gotta have more pace than Insua

[Blue_Tires]

19. that's why i prefer road trips to flying

[pipi_k]

20. Anybody who enjoyed "Weekend At Bernie's"

would probably also like "Waking Ned Devine"


hee hee

:7

[Berry Cool]

21. "Turn me on, dead man"

Shouldn't have taken the trip to Liverpool Airport so seriously.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Maybe they should have FedExed him.

[malaise]

24. Seriously I would have liked to be a fly on the wall

while those two sisters planned to take their dead father back to Germany.

[Hekate]

26. I'm sure there were many flies on the wall already.

ewwww

[Hekate]

27. You know, it would be worth asking FedEx if they'd take an embalmed body in a casket...

But again, that would involve thinking clearly in the first place.

Friends of mine have suggested to me that I FedEx my luggage ahead on travels -- it's very cheap in the continental US, but turns out to cost 10 times as much to Europe, so not worth it.

And for a dead body....

It may just be that the time involved in certifying cause of death, talking to docs and cops and officials, sorting out how to do everything, then embalming, buying a suitably sealed casket, and regular shipping of same (with documents) was just too overwhelming for them to even begin to think through. Their FIRST mistake was in not notifying authorities, who would have led them through legal procedures.

I'll tell you though, this is the stuff of Urban Legend.

Hekate

[lunatica]

25. Me? I wonder how many dead people have been

successfully smuggled through. This can't have been the first time this was tried.

[Hekate]

28. This is the stuff of Urban Legend. How much you want to bet it's already in the files at Snopes?

There will be stories. There ARE stories.

Hekate