Recurring themes

News of the Weird has noted two previous instances of "Weekend at Bernie's"- like attempts by a relative or friend of a newly deceased person to dress up the corpse and bring it to a bank to convince officials that the dead man is merely frail and to request funds from his account. Both of those attempts failed. However, but in Witbank, South Africa, in March, the Afrikaans-language daily Beeld reported success. A post office supervisor released a government check to two women who had brought in a dead pensioner — but only after the women promised that the money would only be used for the man's burial expenses.