If it had been April the 1st you would have thought this was an April fools joke.
I supposes they thought the sun glasses would make a difference
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:02 am ] |
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Women 'take dead relative to the airport to catch a flight' Two women who allegedly placed their elderly dead relative in a wheelchair and dressed him in sunglasses insisted he was asleep as they tried to check-in for a flight to Germany. 06 Apr 2010 Gitta Jarant and her step-daughter Anke Anusic had successfully convinced a taxi driver that 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant was well enough for the 45-minute drive to the airport from their home in Oldham, Greater Manchester. All they needed to do was to get past security at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport. However, horrified staff at the airport soon noticed that something was seriously wrong with Mr Jarant. Andrew Millea, an airport worker who greeted the group with a wheelchair, said Mrs Anusic asked for help lifting her elderly father from the car. "I did my best to help by carefully 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." Mr Millea immediately contacted security staff who tried to check the man's pulse, but were ushered away by the two women. He claimed Mrs Anusic, who was with two children, "encouraged them to 'tell the man that's how your grandad always sleeps'". When officials established that the man was dead, she asked if she could still board the flight. Mrs Jarant, wife of the dead man, insisted they had done nothing wrong: "[He was] the best man of the world - a good man. "I [did not] kill my Willi. My Willi is my god. I [have loved] my Willi for 22 years." Her daughter-in-law added: "They think that for 24 hours we would carry a dead person? This is ridiculous. He was moving, he was breathing. Eight people saw him." The police were called and arrested both women, aged 44 and 66, on suspicion of failing to give notification of death. They have since been released on bail until June 1. Police sources suggested that Mr Jarant, who will eventually be repatriated by more conventional means, had died from natural causes on Good Friday - 24 hours before his arrival at the airport terminal. Last night it emerged that the trio had booked their £40-a-head tickets with easyJet about a fortnight ago. Mrs Jarant and Mrs Anusic, both Germans living in Britain, are thought to have decided to press ahead with boarding the 1.25pm flight rather than risk paying up to £5,000 in repatriation fees. A spokesman for easyJet said staff “were immediately concerned” about the pensioner’s health and as a result decided to call in a first aid team. Leah Gandy, 22, was working on the easyJet check-in desk when the incident happened. She said: "I've worked at the airport for three years, but this is the most shocking thing I've ever seen. "I can't believe the lack of respect the two ladies showed for their family member. It sent shivers down my spine when I realised what was going on. "Fortunately, they had done a good job of disguising the truth and the other passengers did not appear to notice that the man was dead." Airport sources suggested the matter was uncovered even before the trio had reached the check-in desk. Once there it would have been impossible for the two women to continue to board the flight. “The man would have had to hand over his passport to a member of the check-in staff and then answer a number of security questions,” said an easyJet source. In particular, he would have had to say whether his luggage contained any banned items and whether anyone had packed his bag for him. “If they’d managed to get that far they would then have had to go through security, pass their bags through the scanners and be asked for their boarding cards.” The final hurdle would have been to convince easyJet carers specially assigned to wheelchair passengers that all was well. “A lot of people would have been involved,” said the source. “It just wouldn’t have been possible.” Even if the trio had got airborne, they would have had to go through a similar process at Berlin Schoenfeld Airport. An airport source said: “They had him wrapped in a blanket and propped up in a wheelchair wearing sunglasses. The two women insisted he was just asleep. “They had apparently managed to fool the taxi driver who brought them to the airport, but staff here were immediately suspicious.” The taxi driver is said to be “upset and devastated” over the incident. Although there are thought to be no suspicious circumstances, a Home Office pathologist is to carry out a post mortem on the corpse. Bodies are normally repatriated inside hermetically-sealed zinc-lined coffins and kept in the cargo hold for the duration of the journey. A spokesman for Rowland Brothers, a firm of funeral directors who specialise in arranging such journeys, said: “I have not heard of anything like this before. It is most bizarre. “There are rules and regulations to adhere to and documentation to complete before you can transport human remains to a foreign country.” Source; telegraph.co.uk |
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| Author: | Stationtone [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:41 am ] |
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If it had been April the 1st you would have thought this was an April fools joke.
I supposes they thought the sun glasses would make a difference
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:45 am ] |
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He should be in the Guiness book of as "91 year old man remains stiff for 45 minutes in taxi for two women" What a way to go...
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| Author: | gusmac [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:18 pm ] |
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Sounds like something from "Weekend at Bernies" |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:20 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: Sounds like something from "Weekend at Bernies"
pmsl....great film that
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:39 pm ] |
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Why ? 
what was the point of doing something like that ? |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:58 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: Why ?
what was the point of doing something like that ? save £5k? |
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| Author: | Skull [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:03 am ] |
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gusmac wrote: edders23 wrote: Why ? what was the point of doing something like that ? save £5k? Don't tell me that's what it costs to transport a stiff out of the country? 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:31 am ] |
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Skull wrote: gusmac wrote: edders23 wrote: Why ? what was the point of doing something like that ? save £5k? Don't tell me that's what it costs to transport a stiff out of the country? Bet it costs a fortune in Holland
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:54 am ] |
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Skull wrote: gusmac wrote: edders23 wrote: Why ? what was the point of doing something like that ? save £5k? Don't tell me that's what it costs to transport a stiff out of the country? I bet he's not far off, it could be more!! Don't the airlines deal with it as excess luggage weight & charge by the kilogram? |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:30 pm ] |
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well with the court costs solicitors fees and everything else i bet it will cost a lot more than that now ! |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:53 pm ] |
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Would the corpse have been legally required to wear a seatbelt in a Taxi? |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:55 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: Would the corpse have been legally required to wear a seatbelt in a Taxi?
No, the law only applies to the living. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:41 pm ] |
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gusmac wrote: bloodnock wrote: Would the corpse have been legally required to wear a seatbelt in a Taxi? No, the law only applies to the living. dunno.......an Unrestrained stiff in the rear must carry a fair amount of kinetic energy with it as flys forward under severe braking...be like an Excocet missile made of skin and bone...ugh!!!!!!! |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 5:49 am ] |
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bloodnock wrote: gusmac wrote: bloodnock wrote: Would the corpse have been legally required to wear a seatbelt in a Taxi? No, the law only applies to the living. dunno.......an Unrestrained stiff in the rear must carry a fair amount of kinetic energy with it as flys forward under severe braking...be like an Excocet missile made of skin and bone...ugh!!!!!!! Quite true but a stiff is cargo, not a passenger.
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