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n2nh
01-10-2008, 08:23 AM
When I saw this, I turned to the XYL and said, I'll bet they're near ___. I was off by less than 3 blocks. Just like the "'good' old days." These guys rolled a corpse down a street in Midtown Manhattan. In broad daylight.

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Quote[/b] ]You would see them around Hell’s Kitchen, the men neighbors knew as Jimmy and Fox. They were relics of the past in the once-notorious neighborhood, and now they lived on its edges.

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They were tolerated, even treated with affection, although they could be trouble: Each had been arrested numerous times since the 1960s on charges including robbery, drug possession and burglary. Their neighborhood was slowly improving, and in some ways, it was leaving them behind.

“They are a throwback to the old Hell’s Kitchen,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman...

After Mr. Cintron recently died, Mr. O’Hare, 65, and another friend, David Daloia, also 65, whose last known address was in Queens, tried, without success, to cash a Social Security check of Mr. Cintron’s, the police say. They realized that they needed their dead buddy’s help.

So on Tuesday afternoon, the police say, they dressed Mr. Cintron’s corpse, carried him down a flight of stairs and heaved his body into a computer chair with wheels. Outside, they rolled him over the uneven sidewalk, pulling the chair toward Pay-O-Matic, a check-cashing shop on Ninth Avenue.

Straight out of 'Weekend At Bernies' but Hell's Kitchen style. Sorry, no pools, no girls in bikinis and no Rolls Royce.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008....5087%0A (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/nyregion/09dead.html?em&ex=1200114000&en=5cb64a5542894788&ei=5087%0A)

Back story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008....yregion (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/nyregion/10dead.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=nyregion)

n2nh
01-10-2008, 07:01 PM
Greg/KWW, don't you think that if this becomes more common, UTs will have to find other work when the "deceased" move around as much as the "bereaved?" They could take dead grandma to Disneyworld. I wonder if Disney will give cut rate tickets?

n8yx
01-10-2008, 07:54 PM
Quote[/b] (n2nh @ Jan. 10 2008,01:23)]When I saw this, I turned to the XYL and said, I'll bet they're near ___. I was off by less than 3 blocks. Just like the "'good' old days." These guys rolled a corpse down a street in Midtown Manhattan. In broad daylight.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer, them.

KB1PLB
01-10-2008, 08:03 PM
I wonder since it is winter in NYC if they thought they could get next month out of him too. #The ends people go to never ceases to amaze me. # #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

G0GQK
01-10-2008, 10:23 PM
What's so special about that? There are people who drive round the streets in vehicles carrying dead bodies. They're called ambulances.

G0GQK

n2nh
01-10-2008, 11:40 PM
They were moving him around on a wheeled desk chair - like the ones you see in offices. Apparently they couldn't get the pants to go all the way up either...

kg4kww
01-11-2008, 04:03 AM
It should be obvious to anyone, since this fellow would be white as a sheet and dead as a hammer.

Not to mention the odor.