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.
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’.
It all sounds like something Eddie and Ritchie from the TV show ‘Bottom’ would do.
I think it was a plot thought up by Chevy Chase!
What a family story it would have been had it succeeded.
They were probably attempting to get him back home to Germany, to bury him in the family grave plot. But couldn’t afford the exorbitant amount the airlines charge for shipping a body home — way more than they charge for a passenger seat on the plane.
Haven’t they heard of FedEx?
Weekend at Bernie’s III?
Bottom is an Awesome show !!!
Weekend at Curt Wilis’
Mit de kline sitzen und mit de grossen titzens…
I’m starting to not like most films but I enjoyed “Grand Theft Parsons” about a friend of Graham Parson stealing his body to bury it in the desert as they had agreed to do.
Nice quixotic film and Christina Applegate did an excellent job.
What people will do for pension money that is not even theirs.
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“He always sleeps like that.”
Probably would have been cheaper and easier to rent a car and take the Chunnel or a car ferry at Dover. Of course, would have taken longer — they might have needed to get a car with a strong air conditioner…
It costs up to £5000 to repatriate a body a few hundred miles away to Germany! Looks like bureaucracy and corporate profiteering gone mad.
Although the EU allows the free flow of money, goods and people between member states, this doesn’t yet include dead bodies. Repatriation to either the UK or Germany requires the deceased to be cremated or embalmed in a zinc lined coffin before they board a flight.
Once the EU ramps-up soylent green production I am sure we will have greater freedom to move the dead around.
A few hundred pounds would have covered a cremation, then they could have shipped it any way. I suspect that they wanted to avoid a death certificate for whatever reason.
#11 I don’t think the US is any better. Trying to get a body from one state to another through proper channels is an expensive affair.
There was a case where a family was trying to bring their dead mother to Georgia from Illinois (I think). They were stopped near Georgia for some reason and the body was discovered. They could not afford the high expensive of the proper channels and wanted to bury her in the family plot in GA.
Another example of capitalism without limits.
#12. Actually, no. I had mum cremated here in New Zealand and her ashes interned with her family in her Manchester (UK) family plot, which cost me almost US$1,000. Shipping remains requires death certificate, mortician certificate, special handling charges and wait for the shock when you get to the cemetary!