{"id":1022,"date":"2008-01-11T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/einsteins-try-to-cash-dead-buddys-cheque\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:07:21","slug":"einsteins-try-to-cash-dead-buddys-cheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/einsteins-try-to-cash-dead-buddys-cheque\/","title":{"rendered":"Einsteins Try to Cash Dead Buddy’s Cheque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, you have seen this movie<\/a> before.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

When their friend died (apparently no foul play is suspected) his two compadres decided that his final gift<\/a> to them would be to cash his social security cheque.\u00c2\u00a0 So, they dressed him as best they could, carried him outside, put him in a wheeled office chair and set off down the sidewalk.\u00c2\u00a0 Several problems then happened.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, the recently deceased do not sit very well.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, the chair had no arms, resulting in a significant amount of effort to keep said dead buddy in the chair.\u00c2\u00a0 Third, dead buddy’s feet were left to their own devices and bounced around on the uneven sidewalk rather conspicuously.\u00c2\u00a0 Fourth, a police officer happened to notice them while eating his breakfast and realized that there was indeed \u00c2\u00a0a corpse in\u00c2\u00a0a chair rolling down the sidewalk.\u00c2\u00a0 Fifth and finally, apparently the entrance to the cheque cashing store is not cadaver-accessible and they were having “a lot of difficulty” in bringing in their dead friend to cash his cheque.\u00c2\u00a0 The pair ended up arrested of course, but the charges were not yet sorted out because there has very likely never been a precedent in the history of the world.<\/p>\n

The mental pictures on this one\u00c2\u00a0are keeping me entertained as I write this. I saw it first on Metafilter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, you have seen this movie before.\u00c2\u00a0 When their friend died (apparently no foul play is suspected) his two compadres decided that his final gift to them would be to cash his social security cheque.\u00c2\u00a0 So, they dressed him as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}