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A woman in Brazil pulled a move straight out of Weekend at Bernie’s when she wheeled her dead uncle into a bank and tried to use his corpse to take out a loan in his name.
The woman, Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, not only brought her dead uncle into the bank via wheelchair, she also traveled to the bank with him in a taxi.
In a bizarre video obtained by TMZ, the woman can be seen on surveillance footage dragging her dead uncle out of the front passenger seat of the taxi, with the help of the driver who must have been very confused.
Bystanders, noticing how limp her uncle’s body was even approached her appearing to show both concern as well as shock.
Erika then wheeled her dead uncle into a in Rio de Janeiro bank and tried to secure a 17,000 Brazilian Reais (~$3,400) loan.
Footage from inside the bank shows her using his dead hand to attempt to sign some loan papers.
“Uncle, are you listening? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you,” she said at one point.
She is also seen appearing to talk with him, asking him if he can hear her and telling him to sign the documents.
“Sign here and stop giving me a headache,” she is heard to say.
“I don’t think this is legal. He doesn’t look well. He’s very pale,” the bank employee said to her.
“He’s like that,” Erika replied.
The video also shows her repeatedly trying to hold his head because it kept tilting over.
Another video from the day before the bank visit shows Erika wheeling her uncle, still alive, into an emergency room. He reportedly had spent a week in the hospital receiving treatment and was released on April 15th.
Needless to say, her attempts to secure the loan did not work and she was arrested and charged with theft through fraud, embezzlement, and abuse of a corpse.
Her defense, despite the video evidence to the contrary, is that her uncle died while sitting in the wheelchair at the bank.