MORE EXCITING WAYS TO HELP YOUR FRIENDS WHEN DEAD
Further to the previous article on how cremated colleagues can help keep mourners warm, and dead man in New York was able to help a couple of his buddies supplement their income - even though he was deader than the Britney Spears' Guide to Good Motherhood.

65-year-olds David Dalaia and James O'Hare went to the counter of a Manhattan check-cashing facility and handed over a check from their friend, 66-year-old Virgilio Cintron. Unbeknown to the cashier, Virgilio was (a) dead and (b) sat in a chair just outside the door. Unluckily for the fraudsters, a small group gathered around the frigid corpse, which also happened to be in full view of a detective who was taking his lunch at a local restaurant.

When uniformed police arrived, Dalaia and O'Hare were swiftly taken to jail while Cintron was taken to the morgue, where the coroner determined he had died of natural causes. So far the only charge being brought is one of check fraud.

And bad taste?