Real Life Weekend At Bernie's Edit
A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed

We all know Weekend at Bernie’s is one of the best films of all times, period.  But how many of us are willing to live the dream?  Please consider for a moment the example of these two 65 year-old New Yorkers, who tried to pass off their dead friend as alive in order to cash his $355 Social Security check… 
Virgilio Cintron was ailing from Parkinson’s and had lived with his two friends, David J. Daloia and James O’Hare in Hell’s Kitchen for 15 years.  This over-the-hill motley crew had rap sheets dating from the 60’s for crimes like burglary and heroin possession, so when David and James awoke to find their old buddy had passed away, they did what any self respecting musketeer would do - half-dress the corpse, prop it up in an office chair and wheel it down to the nearest Pay-O-Matic to get that cash yo!
At first they tried to leave the body outside, but they were told they had to bring the man inside because without seeing him the cashier was not going to cash the check. The crowd all this created attracted Detective Travis Rapp’s attention from a nearby diner, and he went over to confront the ‘blundertakers’. At that point paramedics were called and declared the older man dead.  An amused Rapp recalls the duo trying to keep the charade going until the very end, when the men were confronted by paramedics with the fact of Virgilio’s demise.
“When they said, ‘Your friend is dead,’ they said, ‘Oh my God, he’s gone?’”
Best Friends Forever!!