Trying to get more dead weight on board.

[Flybaby]

LONDON — Two women allegedly put their dead relative in a wheelchair, dressed him in sunglasses and claimed he was simply asleep as they tried to check in at Liverpool airport for a flight to Germany.

The women convinced a taxi driver that 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant was well enough for the 45-minute drive to the airport.

However, when they arrived, staff at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool noticed something was wrong.

Andrew Millea, a worker who greeted the group with a wheelchair, said one of the women asked for help lifting her father from the car.

"I did my best to help by lifting the man from his seat," he said. "To my horror his face fell sideways against mine, it was ice-cold. I knew straight away that the man was dead, but they reassured me that he 'always sleeps like that.'

"I could see the driver of the taxi was shocked too, he was white as a sheet and looked very shaken, so I placed the body into the wheelchair and pushed the man to the back of the easyJet queue."

Millea contacted security who tried to check the man’s pulse, but were ushered away by the women. He claimed the younger woman, who was with two children, "encouraged them to ’tell the man that’s how your grandad sleeps’".

When officials established that the man was dead, one of the women asked if she could still board the flight.

The German women are thought to have decided to sneak Jarant — thought to have died of natural causes — on the flight rather than pay up to $7,650 in repatriation fees for the body.

Police arrested Jarant's wife, Gitta, 66, and his stepdaughter, Anke Anusic, 44, on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.

Police sources suggested that Mr Jarant died from natural causes on Good Friday - 24 hours before his arrival at the airport. Anusic said: "They would think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him."

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[MrWings]

I saw that movie in the 80's!

[CL-Skadoo!]

Didn't we just do this?

[iflyforpie]

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MrWings, that was my witty post!

[ktcanuck]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

[MrWings]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Considering that I never saw the other thread or iflyforpie's post, the correct cliche is:

Great minds think alike!

[Lost Lake]

"And fools seldom differ"
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[iflyforpie]

"And fools seldom differ"
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