April 6, 2010

You Did It Wrong: Two German Women Try To Pull Off Real Life 'Weekend At Bernie's"

Filed Under: dead / dead as a doornail / dead parrot sketch / flying / i believe i can fly i believe i can touch the -- nope i'm dead / i'd like to hope that after i die people still drag me around places and pretend i'm alive / iffy / relationships / sketchy / trickery / women / wow / wtf were you thinking?

Two German women have been arrested after trying to fly one of their dead husbands from Liverpool to Berlin over the weekend. But not in a casket, oh-no, in a suit with sunglasses on. Classy!

Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday.

The women - his widow and step-daughter - said they thought he was asleep.

Asked to describe her late husband, who she called Willi, Gitta Jarant said: "[He was] the best man of the world - good man.

"I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years."

Mr Jarant's step-daughter Anke Anusic added: "They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him."

Eight people saw him, huh? For a cool $10K I can make that nine. I'll even vouch I saw him pee in an airport restroom and left without washing his hands BECAUSE I'M AN EXPERT WITNESS.

Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport [bbcnews]

Thanks to emc2 and john, who kept feeding their dead gerbils for weeks because their parents told them they were just sleeping.