{"id":1102,"date":"2008-04-22T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/weekend-at-bernies-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:17:34","slug":"weekend-at-bernies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/weekend-at-bernies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend at Bernie&#8217;s 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you recall, I mentioned a news story a little while back about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/einsteins-try-to-cash-dead-buddys-cheque\/\">2 chuckleheads<\/a> that tried to cash their dead friend&#8217;s social security cheque. Well this is a news story that just keeps on giving.\u00c2\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/04\/22\/5358021-ap.html\">a true Hollywood happy ending<\/a>, they have been cleared of all charges in the matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently the crux of their defense was simple:\u00c2\u00a0 they claim that their sick friend was actually alive when they plunked his butt into a chair and rolled him down the street.\u00c2\u00a0 He must have expired en route, they claim.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor was unable to prove the time of death beyond a reasonable doubt, and they walked.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you recall, I mentioned a news story a little while back about 2 chuckleheads that tried to cash their dead friend&#8217;s social security cheque. Well this is a news story that just keeps on giving.\u00c2\u00a0 In a true Hollywood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/weekend-at-bernies-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1102","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-hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","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=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}