Soccer Dad: Taking care of business

January 10, 2008

Taking care of business - legally or not

Social Security for Bernie

A couple of unemployed New Yorkers attempted to cash a Social Security check. Not that strange, except it was the check of their recently departed roommate.

When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.
They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of �Weekend at Bernie�s,� a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive.

�Hell�s Kitchen has a rich history,� said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, �but this is one for the books.�

There was no sign of foul play in Mr. Cintron�s death, he added.

The roommate, James P. O�Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron�s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.

He's a crack employee

Henry Lynch was injured on the job in 1967, applied for and received disability. However when the state discovered that he had a regular job it took action.

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation terminated Lynch's disability payments and declared payments after Jan. 1, 1994, an overpayment. Lynch contested this, eventually taking it to the Supreme Court with the argument that his drug dealing income couldn't be considered because it was illegal.
"We disagree. Lynch cannot use the illegality of his pursuits as a shield," the Ohio Supreme Court said in a unanimous opinion.

Can this marriage be saved?

A Polish man recently discovered that his wife was a prostitute on the side. How'd he find this out?

A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

So apparently he was at the establishment as a customer! I can't imagine that his wife was too happy either. The answer to the title question is (unsurprisingly), "no."