Gardaí investigating after man’s body used in apparent attempt to claim pension

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  1. >Initial reports indicate the body of the deceased was brought into a post office, propped up by two men. It appeared the pair were attempting to collect the man’s pension, the source said. The body of the deceased was then left at the scene, when the two men fled after suspicions were raised.

    …what the fuck???

  2. Lads this is going to be in every newspaper on the planet. What the actual fuck.
    Someone crosspost to /r/nottheonion for the internet points.

  3. > It is understood when the group approached the post office counter, a concerned staff member enquired about the wellbeing of the man being propped up, at which point the two men dropped the man and left the post office, according to one source familiar with the incident. Staff then went to check on the man, and discovered he was deceased, to the shock of those at the scene, the source said.

    I’m
    glad they made it clear they were shocked.

  4. Gardaí are investigating the death of an elderly man in Co Carlow, whose body was brought into a post office by two other men, in what appeared to be an attempt to claim the deceased’s man’s pension.

    Initial reports indicate the body of the deceased was brought into a post office, propped up by two men. It appeared the pair were attempting to collect the man’s pension, the source said. The body of the deceased was then left at the scene, when the two men fled after suspicions were raised.

    A Garda spokesman confirmed gardaí were investigating “all the circumstances surrounding the unexplained death of an elderly male in the Carlow area”.

    The spokesman said the services of the Garda technical bureau had been requested, and a post-mortem examination would be conducted by the Office of the State Pathologist. The results of the post-mortem would help determine the course of the investigation, the spokesman said.

    The spokesman said the Garda Press Office could not provide further details.

    It is understood when the group approached the post office counter, a concerned staff member enquired about the wellbeing of the man being propped up, at which point the two men dropped the man and left the post office, according to one source familiar with the incident. Staff then went to check on the man, and discovered he was deceased, to the shock of those at the scene, the source said.

  5. I’ve been telling everyone of my intention to move to Ireland (from London) one day.

    I expect I’ll be receiving this link via WhatsApp from about ten different people over the next few days.

  6. Just been sent an audio clip of someone from the town talking about. Can’t be sure if it’s legit but apparently the two guys involved are junkies.

  7. And So, the gold rush begun for diggin up some of the highest pensioned corpses ever buried.
    Or maybe , a safer strategy would be to go for quantity, with a digger scoop up a few graveyards a night and dump em at the poast office for processing.

  8. Check out this ….The remains of a Japanese woman have been found in a backpack, in the latest gruesome discovery by investigators searching for missing old people.
    The woman’s son told police his mother died in 2001 but he had not been able to pay for a burial.
    A similar discovery weeks ago sparked a search for people who are registered as being more than 100 years old.
    According to Japanese media, the audit has so far identified 281 centenarians who are missing or have already died.
    The inquiry followed the discovery last month of the mummified remains of a man registered as being 111 years old. He had died 30 years earlier.
    Those unaccounted for include a 125-year-old woman whose registered address was turned into a park in 1981, according to media reports.
    In the latest find, a 64-year-old man told officials that his mother had died at home in Tokyo in “about June 2001”.
    “Because I didn’t have money for a funeral, I didn’t report her death,” the Sankei Shimbun newspaper quoted him as saying.
    The AFP news agency reported that he told police: “I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack.”
    But the woman’s pension continued to be paid and police are now investigating the son on suspicion of fraud.
    There are more than 40,000 registered centenarians in Japan, according to government data, but the number of missing has raised concerns that the welfare system is being exploited by dishonest relatives.
    Analysts say there is dismay in Japan that a rich, efficient society could have lost track of its senior citizens to such a degree.

  9. Don’t live far from here. Drove by it earlier. The whole town is SHOOK. Nothing else will be talked about for weeks

  10. It’s so bizarre like..what would they even be charged with?! I can imagine lawmakers thinking.. we didn’t think we’d need one for that

  11. The most ridiculous part of all, is that due to Covid it’s currently possible to collect another person’s pension for up to fifteen weeks if they sign a form.

    [https://www.anpost.com/Help-Support/Covid-19/Social-Welfare](https://www.anpost.com/Help-Support/Covid-19/Social-Welfare)

    Instead of forging a signature and saying “he has Covid”, they brought a corpse to the post office.

  12. Bit of a laugh and all in one way… but fuck me, that’s someone’s friend or dad or grandfather.. if some scummy cunt did that to my relative or friend I’d want to string him up and kick the lugs of him.

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