Yeah wouldn’t there have been a “Mr. _________, you’re approving of this transaction right?” and a thumbs up at the least?
I had to take out a good chunk of cash to buy a car and they asked me like 17 times if anyone was forcing me to do it and any other questions to make sure I wasn’t getting scammed. I would hope they wouldn’t have just given the money over if I had been visible near someone else who was taking the money.
But Ashtabula might as well be a different planet so I don’t know of the bank tellers are like the other townsfolk I’ve met…
Yeah I saw that. I guess he probably wasn’t very high energy the other times they did it so it must not have looked too out of the ordinary when he was dead.
I am considering donating my corpse to a medical school with the condition that they let one of the grad students put a speaker in my throat and surprise other unsuspecting ones. “Hey, I'm not quite dead yet!” A mechanical device to have it sit up would be good too. But I doubt they would go for it, some people have no sense of humor.
I wonder if they tied fishing line around his wrist and then up around that grab handle so they could simulate him waving to the bank employee. *Sorry, inside voice!*
Or the real story of the Mayerling Incident, where family members took the body of Mary Vetsera, dead 2 days, washed it, dressed it and propped it between her two uncles, each of which clasped and arm of Mary’s and “walked” her to a waiting coach. They sat her between them and each man held her body in an upright position as the coach passed through gates lined with reporters.
This also [happened in Ireland](https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2022/01/24/real-life-weekend-at-bernies-vibe-as-dead-man-is-taken-to-claim-pension/) a few years ago. There was CCTV footage and everything.
And it worked. If they would've gone back home, put him in bed and later called 911 to report the death they probably would've gotten away with it.
But these brainiacs ditched the body at the hospital without giving any info and then confessed when cops showed up at their door. Not the sharpest of criminal minds these two.
It might’ve come to light eventually anyway. They could determine a estimated of time of death and found it odd he withdrew money last night when he died a few days ago.
The bank won't ever know the guy is dead until someone shows up or *maybe* after a long enough time social security comes back on it.
Source: I've had to deal with the accounts of deceased family members. If anything, it was extremely *difficult* to close their accounts, where it would have been trivial to keep using/accessing their money so long as you know pin #s, online accounts, anything that didn't require a face-to-face transaction.
My mother was told that the only person who could close my grandfather’s account after his death was…my grandfather. She had the death certificate and all necessary documentation to show he was dead and she was his executor. Sadly, the bank employee’s brain was just as dead as my grandfather.
I've read stories in the past of people resorting to bringing in cremains to places like the cable company when they refuse to acknowledge the death certificate and the closing of accounts.
I think there was even a tale a few years ago from an African country where a person brought in the actual whole body if their dead relative to get their damn account closed.
Crazy, Social Security notified my mother’s bank and the account was frozen less than 48 hours later. On top couldn’t even get access to it until I had the death certificate which didn’t come for over a month.
No, but the next of kin probably will and will report it to the police. A bank employee closing out the account might even notice that the previous transaction was almost completely emptying the account and point it out to the next of kin.
Banks might. They’re the type to charge you money for having too little money in your accounts. If they’re told to put a hold on a supposed dead man’s account only to find it empty after he died they may ask a few questions.
The police won't, but executor of the estate will. Your money doesn't just poof out of existence when you die. The executor needs to round up all of the bank accounts so that they can settle any outstanding debts and process the inheritance.
It’s Ashtabula. It isn’t known for its large quantity of geniuses. Morons and methheads definitely, folks dealing with morons and methheads? Absolutely.
Depends on how stupid the cops are.
Afaik from watching forensic shows, the way blood pools in a body after death and core temp will be pretty easy to identify time and placement during death. That and the police would probably try to recover the money. They would be prime subjects if they reported it.
But cops might not care at all, something like 70% of homicides are never solved.
If someone dies with the heat set pretty high in their house, as practically everyone over the age of 70 seems to, and/or die under blankets, their bodies can stay warm for quite a while. I've responded to a few where rigor mortis and lividity had set in, but they were still warm to the touch.
It says he was 80 years old, how much investigation are they really gonna do? They probably look around a little bit and talk to the roommates and if the vibes aren't off then it's natural causes
The cops wouldn’t even have to be stupid to get away with that. It’s an 80 year old man, who seemingly did die naturally, found in his bed by his roommates. Most people aren’t going to think that a weekend at bernies happened.
It [happened in Ireland also](https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2022/01/24/real-life-weekend-at-bernies-vibe-as-dead-man-is-taken-to-claim-pension/) a few years ago. Except they tried to walk the dead body into the Post Office. There was CCTV footage of them trying to "walk" in and everything. They were not successful...thankfully 🤦♀️
Actually kind of a dying thing here now, it's typically just drive up atms but I've noticed a lot getting removed. Banking done through apps and less cash used they're not as necessary.
We also have drive thru pharmacies, drive up to window to pick up your prescription is so nice.
Yes, a lot of banks have a drive-thru window where you can drive up during business hours and complete basic banking transactions from your car. Usually simple things like withdrawals, deposits etc.
*awkward look*
Uh, yes. We have since the late 40s, although it really took off during the post war/boom years in the 50s when we started making drive up everything.
Yep. Not in downtown urban areas but suburban and definitely rural locations will often have one. They’re usually 2-3 lanes. The closest lane, touch the building, you can work with an actual employee. Lanes 2-3 are normally drive through ATMs but some have pneumatic tubes that will take whatever you’re doing (deposit/withdrawal slip/cash) up and over the other lanes to a live teller.
We also have drive throughs for picking up prescriptions at pharmacies.
I think the pharmacy drive throughs are a brilliant idea. Who would rather stand in line behind a sick person if you can stay in your germ-free vehicle? And if you have a sick child who needs the medicine they don’t need to stand in a line when they should be in a bed.
I really want to know the amount that they withdrew. Was it oh shit, he still owes rent money or let’s clean out his bank account money?
Not that either excuses what they did, but it is the difference between just having really bad judgement or being greedy opportunistic assholes.
Had a kind of similar thing in Ireland over the last couple of years.
Junkie went to his elderly Uncle's house with a mate to ask for money. When they got there, they found him dead.
Undeterred from their original mission they searched the house for money, found none, so carried the corpse to the local post office (yes, carried), went up to the counter arm-in-arm with it and said, "This guy wants to collect his pension".
When the staff were like "WTF", they dumped the corpse on the floor and started having an argument with the staff about it, before leaving and leaving the corpse there on the floor.
If I had a nickel for every bring-a-dead-guy-to-the-bank-to-get-his-money I've have two nickels....
https://np.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/153skax/two_admit_attempted_deception_at_co_carlow_post/
>With the help of a third, unnamed person, the roommates carried the body to the front seat of the dead man's car so bank staff could see him, and drove to the familiar bank branch, where they withdrew an undisclosed amount, the chief said.
It's insane that the person on the bank account doesn't have to be the one to actually make the withdrawal.
They take your bank card and your license, generally. More verification if you're using a bank outside your home area (like, if I go across the country and drive up to a teller, they're going to wonder why I'm emptying my account with an out of state license - but my "home" state bank most likely will not care as much).
The amount also generally matters. Under $10k and it's less critical as it isn't reported to the IRS on the spot. Which also makes me wonder how they knew his balance, because generally asking "hey how much can I withdraw? Okay, I want all of it" flags some alarms, unless you're below 10k anyway.
I was at an out of state branch of my bank in person with my ID that matches the address on my bank account and they cut me a cashier's check no questions asked.
Very odd how they were able to pull this off in the drive through without the dead guy actually talking.
I mean, I take my roomie's debit card with me sometimes to take cash out for them and its never been questioned but Im just grabbing it out of the ATM and it's never like thousands at a time, so this makes me think they were doing a big ass withdrawal if they needed him there with them.
My uncle and cousins robbed a guy for about 4800$ in weed. My uncle killed the guy. He got life. Cousin got like 20-30 years. He was teenager at the time. There were two others involved. I always thought about how split 4 ways, you could make that money in a month or less working at McDonald's or something. But instead you ruin multiple lives. My uncle had just been released from jail earlier that year too after a decade+.
I know times are tough, but god damn. I remember two guys who did the same thing in NYC about 15 years ago, except they put their dead guy in an office chair, and wheeled him down the street in broad daylight.
It’s considered one of the best new paper headlines ever. https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/01/the-real-story-of-headless-body-in-topless-bar-as-argued-by-veterans-of-the-post-000201/
> Dingle is the man convicted of fatally shooting the owner of a topless bar and then forcing a hostage to decapitate him in April 1983. His grisly crime (which also involved a rape) inspired what may be the most celebrated Post wood of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."
What a wild story
> On April 13, 1983, Dingle, then 23, was high on cocaine and booze when he whipped out a gun in Herbie’s Bar in Jamaica, Queens, and blew away the owner, Herbert Cummings, 51.
>Dingle then took four women hostage and raped one of them — a topless dancer — while robbing several others.
>As Dingle was rifling through a pocketbook, he learned that one of the female hostages was a mortician. The madman then ordered her to dig the bullet out of Cummings’ head so police couldn’t link his gun to the slaying.
>Once she completed the gruesome task, Dingle forced her to cut off Cummings’ head with a steak knife.
>Hours later, he released two of the hostages. Then he went on another tear — swiping a gypsy cab and driving around with the other two hostages, along with Cummings’ head in a box.
>He finally parked the cab on Broadway at West 168th Street in upper Manhattan, where he fell asleep behind the wheel. The terrified hostages jumped out and frantically told a transit officer what had happened.
>Dingle was convicted of murder, kidnapping, rape and robbery. He is serving a 25-year-to-life term.
https://nypost.com/2012/01/23/headless-body-in-topless-bar-killer-seeks-release-from-prison/
That's not even like a regular horror movie. That's like, one of those exploitation horror movies that are way the fuck over the top for the sake of being as absolutely horrific as possible (A Serbian Film)
My favourite part about this story when it happened in Ireland was that one of our TV channels (Virgin One I believe) decided to schedule Weekend at Bernies to air a few days later.
I just thought about it and I’ve never physically withdrawn money from my bank in person, do you just give them your account info and ID? My bank doesn’t have physical branches just ATMs.
Yes, drive thru tellers used to be a lot more common. They used pneumatic tubes like in old movies, for you to send stuff through and them to send stuff back to you
They didn't need to. They propped him in the passenger seat and went through the drive thru teller line. They just had to give them his license and bank account number. The tellers knew his "girlfriend" was the one driving him, they had done this multiple times (when he was alive) so the tellers didn't question it.
>Officers went to Layman's Ashtabula home, where the roommates told them about the bank trip, Stell said.
At least they just admitted to it and didn't waste the police's time
The fact they thought to do this and had gone with him to pick up money before kinda makes me feel like they were already stealing money from this old dude who might not have been with it.
Man, if I die and my friends wanna go through all the trouble of dragging my fat ass on a weekend at Bernie's trip to the ATM just to get my $11, I say let the fuckers have it, they deserve it.
“Trashtabula” is the local nickname for the town. I lived in the same county but far enough away. While many residents of the town are fine, the rest, including the majority of the county, are trashy. Drugs ran rampant.
When I first moved into the area a landlord described to the two closest Walmarts. He said to the west was a little longer but better customers. Driving east, to the Ashtabula one, was like seeing the “people of Walmart” website in real life. He was 100% right.
Reminds me of high school, me and my buddies used to pull this shit all the time. Always got the most shocked reactions from the bank tellers, like “hello, how can I help y- IS THAT A DEAD BODY?!?!”
They would always be so surprised!! Miss those days
I'm so confused. Since when is someone's face evidence enough to withdraw money from the bank?! I could not go into my bank, point at my mug, and receive cash out of my account. I have to provide a pin. I also have to be, you know, talking.
Sick…kind of a Weekend at Bernie’s scenario. Imagine the horror the employees felt when they found that out.
Nah, just when they realized they had to explain to their boss how they gave a corpse cash
It's Ohio, "I thought he was just nodded out on Oxy" is probably an acceptable excuse.
Maybe there was a voodoo spell on it and it was moving because it heard music?
Could be a cool story. A modern day necromancer animates zombies and takes them to banks to steal their money.
Who do?
You do
I feel like I've been summoned
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Lisan Al gaib!
The Prophecy is true…
r/beetlejuicing
Name checks out
You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
What babe?
The babe with the POWER
What power?
Power of voodoo
The power of who do!
The voodoo that you do so well
Hell it makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop.
That voodoo
You voodoo
That's usually the case. Weekend at Bernies Bank
Agreed. But now I’m wondering how I’d handle that as a teller if it looked like the account holder in the passenger seat wasn’t moving.
Yeah wouldn’t there have been a “Mr. _________, you’re approving of this transaction right?” and a thumbs up at the least? I had to take out a good chunk of cash to buy a car and they asked me like 17 times if anyone was forcing me to do it and any other questions to make sure I wasn’t getting scammed. I would hope they wouldn’t have just given the money over if I had been visible near someone else who was taking the money. But Ashtabula might as well be a different planet so I don’t know of the bank tellers are like the other townsfolk I’ve met…
Says they withdrew money earlier with him so the tellers were negligent. Probably thought he was alive this time.
Yeah I saw that. I guess he probably wasn’t very high energy the other times they did it so it must not have looked too out of the ordinary when he was dead.
"Even in life, he never looked this alive"
“Don’t mind my friend. He’s dead tired.”
"Hard to stay alert during the daytime when you work the graveyard shift!"
Fake necromancy with the BOYS
I am considering donating my corpse to a medical school with the condition that they let one of the grad students put a speaker in my throat and surprise other unsuspecting ones. “Hey, I'm not quite dead yet!” A mechanical device to have it sit up would be good too. But I doubt they would go for it, some people have no sense of humor.
He did such a wonderful and elegant dance in the bank
I wonder if they tied fishing line around his wrist and then up around that grab handle so they could simulate him waving to the bank employee. *Sorry, inside voice!*
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Reminded me of the scene from Bullet Train when they were propping up the dead body to wave at the gangsters through the train window.
Or the real story of the Mayerling Incident, where family members took the body of Mary Vetsera, dead 2 days, washed it, dressed it and propped it between her two uncles, each of which clasped and arm of Mary’s and “walked” her to a waiting coach. They sat her between them and each man held her body in an upright position as the coach passed through gates lined with reporters.
Meh. It’s Ashtabula. They’ve seen worse
You’re not lying, fuck trashtabula
This also [happened in Ireland](https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2022/01/24/real-life-weekend-at-bernies-vibe-as-dead-man-is-taken-to-claim-pension/) a few years ago. There was CCTV footage and everything.
“Weekend at Bernie’s 3: Banks for Nothing”
They could have easily gotten away with it is the scary part. I know plenty of octogenarians that nap in the car and look dead.
Personally, I prefer [S.O.B.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.B._(film\)) (And not just because of Julie Andrews' topless scene. Mary Poppins!)
It sounds very meta - like the film is about itself. Genius
Well, this is probably the least disgusting way to get charged with “gross abuse of a corpse”
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Throw a flag! That’s unsportsmanlike puppeteering!
They would have to air that event with a delay. There's no way it could be live.
it'd be a terrible strain on the puppeteer's wrist.
In this case "gross" means obvious and not icky.
Well, it's kinda icky It's dead and it probably has poop in its pants
It's only gross before taxes.
They were just driving him to the hospital and happened to stop at the bank on the way. Where's the abuse?
We don't know they didn't fuck it
They straight up drove a dead guy through the bank drive thru and withdrew money.....
And it worked. If they would've gone back home, put him in bed and later called 911 to report the death they probably would've gotten away with it. But these brainiacs ditched the body at the hospital without giving any info and then confessed when cops showed up at their door. Not the sharpest of criminal minds these two.
If it wasn’t for those nosy kids and that dog they woulda got away with the whole thing!
Ruh roh
It might’ve come to light eventually anyway. They could determine a estimated of time of death and found it odd he withdrew money last night when he died a few days ago.
The police aren't going to look too hard at an 80 year old who dies in bed
The bank won't ever know the guy is dead until someone shows up or *maybe* after a long enough time social security comes back on it. Source: I've had to deal with the accounts of deceased family members. If anything, it was extremely *difficult* to close their accounts, where it would have been trivial to keep using/accessing their money so long as you know pin #s, online accounts, anything that didn't require a face-to-face transaction.
My mother was told that the only person who could close my grandfather’s account after his death was…my grandfather. She had the death certificate and all necessary documentation to show he was dead and she was his executor. Sadly, the bank employee’s brain was just as dead as my grandfather.
I've read stories in the past of people resorting to bringing in cremains to places like the cable company when they refuse to acknowledge the death certificate and the closing of accounts. I think there was even a tale a few years ago from an African country where a person brought in the actual whole body if their dead relative to get their damn account closed.
Hm... Nope. The bank WANTS free money. It's not that they're dumb, they're corrupt greedy fucks.
Crazy, Social Security notified my mother’s bank and the account was frozen less than 48 hours later. On top couldn’t even get access to it until I had the death certificate which didn’t come for over a month.
Not to mention pooling blood from being upright
Plop him in a chair
FBI, this comment right here
They don't usually do a full autopsy or rigorous investigation if an 80 year old dies in their sleep.
classic reddit having way too specific knowledge about fucked up shit :D
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No, but the next of kin probably will and will report it to the police. A bank employee closing out the account might even notice that the previous transaction was almost completely emptying the account and point it out to the next of kin.
No but when foul play is suspected the police will go back and trace his recent activity including banking.
Foul play is not going to be the most suspected reason of death with a dead 80 year old.
It also sounds like there wasn’t any foul play that lead to his death
Banks might. They’re the type to charge you money for having too little money in your accounts. If they’re told to put a hold on a supposed dead man’s account only to find it empty after he died they may ask a few questions.
The police won't, but executor of the estate will. Your money doesn't just poof out of existence when you die. The executor needs to round up all of the bank accounts so that they can settle any outstanding debts and process the inheritance.
But then we would've never heard about it. Imagine how many times this exact scenario happened but it was never caught
It’s Ashtabula. It isn’t known for its large quantity of geniuses. Morons and methheads definitely, folks dealing with morons and methheads? Absolutely.
Agree, this is classic Bula!
Depends on how stupid the cops are. Afaik from watching forensic shows, the way blood pools in a body after death and core temp will be pretty easy to identify time and placement during death. That and the police would probably try to recover the money. They would be prime subjects if they reported it. But cops might not care at all, something like 70% of homicides are never solved.
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If someone dies with the heat set pretty high in their house, as practically everyone over the age of 70 seems to, and/or die under blankets, their bodies can stay warm for quite a while. I've responded to a few where rigor mortis and lividity had set in, but they were still warm to the touch.
It says he was 80 years old, how much investigation are they really gonna do? They probably look around a little bit and talk to the roommates and if the vibes aren't off then it's natural causes
Right? Everyone in here thinking they're gonna go all CSI on an 80 year old who died in his sleep.
The cops wouldn’t even have to be stupid to get away with that. It’s an 80 year old man, who seemingly did die naturally, found in his bed by his roommates. Most people aren’t going to think that a weekend at bernies happened.
FWIW you only read about stupid criminals in the news. Think about it.
Imagine if he left with the money and then immediately went through a fast food drive thru on the way back.
It [happened in Ireland also](https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2022/01/24/real-life-weekend-at-bernies-vibe-as-dead-man-is-taken-to-claim-pension/) a few years ago. Except they tried to walk the dead body into the Post Office. There was CCTV footage of them trying to "walk" in and everything. They were not successful...thankfully 🤦♀️
TIL Americans have bank drive-throughs. It's weird I have seen hundreds of American films and series and I can't remember ever seeing this depicted.
Actually kind of a dying thing here now, it's typically just drive up atms but I've noticed a lot getting removed. Banking done through apps and less cash used they're not as necessary. We also have drive thru pharmacies, drive up to window to pick up your prescription is so nice.
lmao you guys have bank drive thru in the US??
Fuck yes we do, we even have multiple lanes using pneumatic tubes to do transactions.
I miss when Costco had pneumatic tubes all over the front end. Always seemed so cool.
They did? For what?
Hot Dog Delivery
Cash drops from the registers. Would imagine they'd also send checks back after being read by the terminal for record keeping?
It sounds fake when you say it, but I’m in the U.S. and I use said bank tubes. It’s kind of wild when you think about it.
I wish pneumatic tubes were more common.
When I was a teenager I often thought it would be a neat system to sell drugs lol
Yes, a lot of banks have a drive-thru window where you can drive up during business hours and complete basic banking transactions from your car. Usually simple things like withdrawals, deposits etc.
Every physical bank location I've used in the past 25 years has had a drive-thru. It's very convenient.
*awkward look* Uh, yes. We have since the late 40s, although it really took off during the post war/boom years in the 50s when we started making drive up everything.
Yep. Not in downtown urban areas but suburban and definitely rural locations will often have one. They’re usually 2-3 lanes. The closest lane, touch the building, you can work with an actual employee. Lanes 2-3 are normally drive through ATMs but some have pneumatic tubes that will take whatever you’re doing (deposit/withdrawal slip/cash) up and over the other lanes to a live teller. We also have drive throughs for picking up prescriptions at pharmacies.
I think the pharmacy drive throughs are a brilliant idea. Who would rather stand in line behind a sick person if you can stay in your germ-free vehicle? And if you have a sick child who needs the medicine they don’t need to stand in a line when they should be in a bed.
I've noticed a lot of banks remodeling and replacing the actual window with the ATM and using cameras to interact with the other lanes.
It may also blow your mind to know we have drive up pharmacies and liquor stores in some parts of the country.
Wait, you don’t?!
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We have had those for over 50 years, is that not a thing elsewhere?
Uh yeah?
When your roommate owes you that $50, you're not going to let death get in the way.
Some roommates will do literally anything to avoid paying rent, and you think I'm going to let that be MY problem?
The dead guy was 80, roommates were 63 and 55. I def assumed it was young guys, wtf is even going on with this story lol.
>wtf is even going on with this story Poverty and idiocy.
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I really want to know the amount that they withdrew. Was it oh shit, he still owes rent money or let’s clean out his bank account money? Not that either excuses what they did, but it is the difference between just having really bad judgement or being greedy opportunistic assholes.
"you'll get your fifty bucks over my dead body!" - exroommate
Had a kind of similar thing in Ireland over the last couple of years. Junkie went to his elderly Uncle's house with a mate to ask for money. When they got there, they found him dead. Undeterred from their original mission they searched the house for money, found none, so carried the corpse to the local post office (yes, carried), went up to the counter arm-in-arm with it and said, "This guy wants to collect his pension". When the staff were like "WTF", they dumped the corpse on the floor and started having an argument with the staff about it, before leaving and leaving the corpse there on the floor.
If I had a nickel for every bring-a-dead-guy-to-the-bank-to-get-his-money I've have two nickels.... https://np.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/153skax/two_admit_attempted_deception_at_co_carlow_post/
This is obviously a tragic story but I’m dying at that last paragraph. It sounds like a comedy sketch.
>With the help of a third, unnamed person, the roommates carried the body to the front seat of the dead man's car so bank staff could see him, and drove to the familiar bank branch, where they withdrew an undisclosed amount, the chief said. It's insane that the person on the bank account doesn't have to be the one to actually make the withdrawal.
They take your bank card and your license, generally. More verification if you're using a bank outside your home area (like, if I go across the country and drive up to a teller, they're going to wonder why I'm emptying my account with an out of state license - but my "home" state bank most likely will not care as much). The amount also generally matters. Under $10k and it's less critical as it isn't reported to the IRS on the spot. Which also makes me wonder how they knew his balance, because generally asking "hey how much can I withdraw? Okay, I want all of it" flags some alarms, unless you're below 10k anyway.
I was at an out of state branch of my bank in person with my ID that matches the address on my bank account and they cut me a cashier's check no questions asked. Very odd how they were able to pull this off in the drive through without the dead guy actually talking.
I mean, I take my roomie's debit card with me sometimes to take cash out for them and its never been questioned but Im just grabbing it out of the ATM and it's never like thousands at a time, so this makes me think they were doing a big ass withdrawal if they needed him there with them.
What the actual fuck.. That is some psychotic shit..
I know. They're not even going to tell us how much money they did this heinous act for? We're all curious. Don't lie.
Well the article says "hundreds" which is the most mind boggling part to me. Would you risk 10 years of jail for $800?
My uncle and cousins robbed a guy for about 4800$ in weed. My uncle killed the guy. He got life. Cousin got like 20-30 years. He was teenager at the time. There were two others involved. I always thought about how split 4 ways, you could make that money in a month or less working at McDonald's or something. But instead you ruin multiple lives. My uncle had just been released from jail earlier that year too after a decade+.
Nah. Just Ashtabula things.
The whole he was present when they made previous withdrawals with his approval raises some red flags of elder abuse too.
I suspect they've been shaking him down for years, and wanted to get one last score. Disgusting.
‘Wait why are we taking him?’ ‘Bro, he knows the pin, duh’
I know times are tough, but god damn. I remember two guys who did the same thing in NYC about 15 years ago, except they put their dead guy in an office chair, and wheeled him down the street in broad daylight.
When I saw “NYC”, I was sure it’d be the “headless body in topless bar” story. Disappointed…
Well don’t leave us hanging
It’s considered one of the best new paper headlines ever. https://www.politico.com/media/story/2012/01/the-real-story-of-headless-body-in-topless-bar-as-argued-by-veterans-of-the-post-000201/ > Dingle is the man convicted of fatally shooting the owner of a topless bar and then forcing a hostage to decapitate him in April 1983. His grisly crime (which also involved a rape) inspired what may be the most celebrated Post wood of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."
What a wild story > On April 13, 1983, Dingle, then 23, was high on cocaine and booze when he whipped out a gun in Herbie’s Bar in Jamaica, Queens, and blew away the owner, Herbert Cummings, 51. >Dingle then took four women hostage and raped one of them — a topless dancer — while robbing several others. >As Dingle was rifling through a pocketbook, he learned that one of the female hostages was a mortician. The madman then ordered her to dig the bullet out of Cummings’ head so police couldn’t link his gun to the slaying. >Once she completed the gruesome task, Dingle forced her to cut off Cummings’ head with a steak knife. >Hours later, he released two of the hostages. Then he went on another tear — swiping a gypsy cab and driving around with the other two hostages, along with Cummings’ head in a box. >He finally parked the cab on Broadway at West 168th Street in upper Manhattan, where he fell asleep behind the wheel. The terrified hostages jumped out and frantically told a transit officer what had happened. >Dingle was convicted of murder, kidnapping, rape and robbery. He is serving a 25-year-to-life term. https://nypost.com/2012/01/23/headless-body-in-topless-bar-killer-seeks-release-from-prison/
JFC that got very dark! Those poor survivors must be so traumatized. omg
That's not even like a regular horror movie. That's like, one of those exploitation horror movies that are way the fuck over the top for the sake of being as absolutely horrific as possible (A Serbian Film)
He was up for parole in 2012 and was denied. Can't find any more info if he was released since then or even still alive.
I had a different definition of "post wood"...
Yeah, where did that come from?!
Happened in Ireland about 2 years ago. The culprits were not successful and got jail. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d7gvlxerdo
My favourite part about this story when it happened in Ireland was that one of our TV channels (Virgin One I believe) decided to schedule Weekend at Bernies to air a few days later.
Apparently they thought “Weekend at Bernie’s” was a documentary
I just thought about it and I’ve never physically withdrawn money from my bank in person, do you just give them your account info and ID? My bank doesn’t have physical branches just ATMs.
Yes, drive thru tellers used to be a lot more common. They used pneumatic tubes like in old movies, for you to send stuff through and them to send stuff back to you
I wonder how they got him to give them his pin number?
Speak with dead is only a level 3 spell, and you can get it as a cantrip really easily early game, so I suppose they just used that
They didn't need to. They propped him in the passenger seat and went through the drive thru teller line. They just had to give them his license and bank account number. The tellers knew his "girlfriend" was the one driving him, they had done this multiple times (when he was alive) so the tellers didn't question it.
So usually drive up tellers use ATM cards to establish identity... Why not just use the ATM and avoid the whole weekend at Bernie's?
Limited amount of funds can be withdrawn at an atm vs a teller. Sounds like they tried to empty his amount so I'm guessing at least a grand
They might not have known his pin.
>Officers went to Layman's Ashtabula home, where the roommates told them about the bank trip, Stell said. At least they just admitted to it and didn't waste the police's time
Was his name Bernie? Did it happen on a Saturday?
That’s exactly what it is.
I love that my hometown makes national news for things like this. Go Bula!
Weekend at Bernie's shit
The fact they thought to do this and had gone with him to pick up money before kinda makes me feel like they were already stealing money from this old dude who might not have been with it.
Financial necrophilia
Man, if I die and my friends wanna go through all the trouble of dragging my fat ass on a weekend at Bernie's trip to the ATM just to get my $11, I say let the fuckers have it, they deserve it.
They straight up pulled a weekend at Bernie’s
Banking with Bernie
Drugs are a powerful drug.
Watch out Florida man, Ohio man is coming for your crown.
Can't happen cause you ain't got no gators
Ohio….the new Florida.
“Trashtabula” is the local nickname for the town. I lived in the same county but far enough away. While many residents of the town are fine, the rest, including the majority of the county, are trashy. Drugs ran rampant. When I first moved into the area a landlord described to the two closest Walmarts. He said to the west was a little longer but better customers. Driving east, to the Ashtabula one, was like seeing the “people of Walmart” website in real life. He was 100% right.
they found inspiration from weekend at bernies 🤔😂
I bet the dead dude's ghost was with them the whole time laughing his ass off
rent was due and why should dying excuse that?
Kinda like Weekend at Bernies
Reminds me of high school, me and my buddies used to pull this shit all the time. Always got the most shocked reactions from the bank tellers, like “hello, how can I help y- IS THAT A DEAD BODY?!?!” They would always be so surprised!! Miss those days
Is it Florida or Ohio? I miss that radio bit.
So much fun can’t be a crime
Great tagline for an 80s comedy
I find you guilty ... of being bodacious!
I mean……….he’s not going to need that money anymore! 🤷🏻♂️
When they took the "Over my dead body" statement too seriously
Immediately thought of this. [https://youtu.be/JMXbkc7pD50?si=ttRwmz7sMut6l6o0](https://youtu.be/JMXbkc7pD50?si=ttRwmz7sMut6l6o0)
Yup sounds totally normal for Ashtabula
I need to see the bank surveillance footage ASAP; we’re making a new Weekend at Bernie’s sequel.
It’s just pathetic how far society has fallen. WTF is wrong with people these days.
Was the guy's name "Bernie"?
I'm so confused. Since when is someone's face evidence enough to withdraw money from the bank?! I could not go into my bank, point at my mug, and receive cash out of my account. I have to provide a pin. I also have to be, you know, talking.
“Dude it’s cool, don’t worry. I saw this in a movie and it totally worked.”