A man in America reportedly had an interesting reaction to discovering a dead body on Saturday – he got into the dead person's car, and drove the corpse to a cash machine so that he could take money out of their account, according to police.
Police discovered the dead guy in a state of mild decomposition in a truck in a parking lot in Allentown Pennsylvania, after they were initially called to arrest a man for a completely different crime.
The man, identified as 45-year-old Dennis James Laslo, was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly tried to snatch a purse from a woman shopping in a supermarket. However, in the process of investigating that crime, the police happened upon the corpse of 50-year-old Maynard Samuel Anthony, which was sitting in a pickup truck in the car park.
According to police, it turned out that Laslo had discovered Anthony's body in the truck earlier that day. Naturally, his first response was to drive the vehicle, with the corpse still in situ, to a bank in Allentown. There, he tried to use Anthony's cash card to withdraw money from an ATM, before then driving to the supermarket – still with the corpse – and attempting to steal the purse.
He has now been charged with attempted theft, theft, and the delightful crime of 'abuse of a corpse'.
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