Two men have been arrested in New York for wheeling a dead friend through the streets in an office chair and trying to cash his cheque.David Dalaia and James O'Hare, were seen pushing Virgilio Cintron's body from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away.
"Hell's Kitchen has a rich history but this is one for the books," police spokesman Paul Browne told the New York Times.
"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up."
The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his cheque, worth about £180.
The store's clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and O'Hare told the clerk they would go and get him, Browne said.
Meanwhile, a police detective having lunch at a restaurant next door noticed a crowd forming around Cintron's body.
The detective called uniformed New York Police Department officers who arrested Dalaia and O'Hare at the store.
Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died from natural causes.
Dalaia and O'Hare, both 65, were being held by police and faced cheque fraud charges. (New York Times)
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