Women tried to get dead body on easyJet

[olddutch]

Two women have been arrested for trying to push a dead relative strapped to a wheelchair onto a Berlin-bound flight at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Officers arrested the two women, aged 44 and 66, on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death.

http://www.timesonlin...me/article7088915.ece

Did these two women do anything immoral and roughly how much in money terms would they have saved had they “got away with it” ?

[askyourgran]

I cannot believe they thought the old man was still alive,they must have twigged when they put him in the wheelchair, All smells very fishy or whatever they smell like dead.I bet they'd do a runner if they could but we'd be left with the deceased (or diseased as craft says).

[birdie1971]

Have these two women never watched 'Weekend At Bernie's'?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/

It's a wonderful instructional movie that shows you how to artificially reanimate a corpse without anyone suspecting. They got the dark glasses right and they remembered to make him wear a hat but they forgot the most important part of the subterfuge – the strings.

[birdie1971]

They knew he was dead. They had to know. Despite what Hollywood likes to pretend, the dead don't simply look like someone who is sleeping. Everything about them looks completely different; the skin colour, the eyes, skin temperature and not forgetting the muscles which all relax – all of them... basically, the dead 'leak'. I'm sure you know what I mean. Plus the fact that Rigor mortis would have kicked in and subsided if we are to believe the reports from the doctor who examined the body and concluded that he had died the day before the failed check-in.

The chances that these two women were unaware that the guy was dead is very small indeed.

I think that this is a case of two very stupid people who promised the guy that when he died they'd make sure he was buried in his homeland – Germany. However, once they found out just how much it costs to repatriate a body (anything up to £4000) they thought they'd try a cheaper alternative.

[boxtops]

I bet there will be a film of this before too long.....

[HoneyBeeTree]

I remember reading a story like this a few years ago but the dead man was actually on the plane and in the air before anyone noticed!!

[tinkerbell23]

Silly question but why the special coffin? Xxxx

[askyourgran]

Don't really know but bodies start to break down and leak and then smell I imagine this is for Health and Safety of anyone who handles it, imagine if it got lost!

[tamborine]

cant wait to see it on Airline TV program.

Geezer, you can DIY funerals.

[alavahalf]

Must have got on the wrong flight...
I reckon they were trying to smuggle the stiff onboard, so as to try and claim some compensation.
They were going to create a scene when the plane landed and say their friend had croaked it .... only after he'd had the inflight meal.

[R1Geezer]

Yep, I'll do it for a Monkey, just wrap him up and send fedex/dhl/ups etc for a ton and put 4 century in the sky. Sorted!