Way back in the murky past, I did an inordinate amount of research for a paper entitled The Quiescent Cadaver.
Bless them, I was shocked to discover they have no legal rights at all.
Surprisingly, they live lives pretty much like the rest of us; they get married, they have sex, they have babies. Today we learn that some of them become Benefit Cheats in their old age.
The Government paid out £73 million in state benefits to dead people last year. The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that it is trying to claw back some of the overpayments to almost 200,000 dead people.
But it admitted that £27 million of the money will never be recovered due to a lack of funds in the deceased’s estate.
Now by virtue of all my research, I consider myself better qualified than the average person to tell you what cadavers can get up to – and I am confident that they cannot nip round to the local cash point.
If £73 million has been paid into their bank accounts, then £73 million is still sitting in their bank accounts – either that or ‘someone’ has helped to remove it. Whyfore then, is the Department of Dodgy Statistics telling us that £27 million can’t be recovered? Is that £27 million in Scottish bank accounts? Is that the problem? Have Scottish Cadavers discovered a way to pop into Yates’ Wine Lodge for a few quick Stellas on route to their next scam?
It wouldn’t surprise me. We appear to have a Scottish Cadaver running the country at the moment – is there no end to their talents?
Photo courtesy of Mary Roach’s Publishers.
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There’s 40,000 cadavers at Anfield every week to watch Liverpool…well, loads of players who can’t seak Scouse but wear red shirts….the famous red shirts…..hahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHA…..oooppsss!!!
They play footie too?
Thank-you Blink, shall add that to my list!
Gordie may be a Hardy Scot but still has that reek of a dead man walking.
Someone once told me that fish rot from the head down……
A Russian or Chinese metaphor according to my research – I like it.
There was a case in the NW of England where dozens of cadavers were all claiming fron the same address. It was an old people’s home.
The owners of the home were claiming on their behalf.
All the money claimed …………… went into bank accounts specially set up for the cadavers by the owners of the home.
Some families cannot believe that their family members have departed and continue receiving the money in the cadacer’s memory.
This happens a lot. Who are we to take those memories away?
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