Dead Before Arrival German

wanderer


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 15:27

passenger plane.

The corpse was pushed in on a wheelchair - complete with sunglasses - to try to fool staff at the check in desk at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, it is claimed.

The man's body had been driven to the airport in a taxi after the women told the driver he was asleep.

But as his two companions attempted to check the dead man in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday, staff became suspicious and alerted the authorities.

The two women were arrested at the scene.

It is understood the 91-year-old German national had died a day earlier, and an attempt was being made to smuggle his body back to his homeland.

A source said: 'The airport staff at the check in were not happy with the situation.

The women, aged 44 and 66, are currently being questioned 'on suspicion of failing to give notification of a death'.

The body was brought to the airport from a house in Oldham.

An airport source said: 'They tried to get him in by a wheelchair. He was wearing sunglasses.

wanderer


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 15:29

'He was dead before they got him in the taxi and he had been dead for a day.'

The cab driver is said to have been left 'upset and devastated' after being informed.

It is believed the two women attempted to smuggle the body back to avoid repatriation fees, which can be as much as £3,000.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263886/Two-women-caught-trying-smuggle-dead-relative-plane-Liverpool-airport.html#ixzz0kK34DT2W



I was asking about this a month ago re TRNC getting bodies home can you imagine this on Easy Jet or Ryan Air

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 15:32

Some people will do anything for a free ride. )

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 15:35

Bill

It's a dead cert!



Richard

spondoolics


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 16:24

Should have stuck him into a BURKA, no problem. Straight through with upgrade.

TheScarlets



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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 17:55

Always thought the Krauts were a bunch of stiffs



What a great plan, if it had been flying from Ercan they would have wheeled him on to the plane without noticing!



Might have been smelling on arrival though!

Panchocat


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 19:33

Only in Liverpool!

Excellent scouse staff to spot the stiff. Love it! Makes me homesick for the pool! Well maybe not when it's such a lovely day here today!

Linnyloos


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 19:56

He he. Just read this online. How funny!



What some people will do..........and they expected to get away with it.



Wonder what was said when the check in clerk asked 'did you pack your own bags'

wanderer


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 21:43

Just been on C4 news wife and step daughter "He was alive when he left the taxi"

we were only following orders (sorry for the stereo type could not resist)

The death was spotted by easy death(Jet) staff

What a "Come fly with me" programme this will make

Tony Robinson as voice over as usual perhaps lapsing to Baldric saying they thought they had a "Cunning Plan"

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 21:50

Wanderer. ) )

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 21:54

Opened my curtains this morning to see a German Shepherd having a sh*t in my back garden.



When I looked again, I noticed he'd brought his bloody dog with him too!    

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 22:38

The whole thing was a laugh, how on earth they had the 'bare cheek' to expect nobody to notice!



No1Doyen thats so funny.:0

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 22:42

The wife was on TV this evening almost crying and saying that he was alive when they left home.



Pull the other one! )

loulouis


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 22:53

Some women will do anything for a Stiffy

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/04/2010 22:58

Loulouis. ) ) )

wanderer


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Message Posted:
07/04/2010 07:11

The participants in the flesh some dead some alive

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263886/Two-women-caught-trying-smuggle-dead-relative-plane-Liverpool-airport.html

Blackie


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Message Posted:
07/04/2010 16:02

This is not entirely a new phenomenon staff at Manchester Airport have to check whether anyone turning up at checkin, in a wheelchair is alive. It is quite a common ploy for people particularily from countries in the Sub Continent who which to bury their relatives in their country of birth. It is much much cheaper to do this rather than send them home in the hold. I would have thought it would have been better to fry them and take them over in an urn.