Many of us can look back and laugh at the movie, A Weekend at Bernie’s. It was a lighthearted movie about two teenagers who tried to make a corpse look alive for a weekend.
The movie may have been funny but the reality; not so much. That became terrifyingly clear after a Brazilian woman went to a bank in Rio de Janeiro with the corpse of an elderly man in a wheelchair.
The woman, Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes is seen beside the deceased man seated in the chair, and his head was lowered. The footage was aired by a broadcasting network in Brazil, and it shows the woman calling the dead man her uncle.
The strangest thing is, she was trying to get him to cosign for a $3,400 loan. She continued to urge him to sign those financial documents, but I don’t think he was listening.
“Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract], I can’t sign for you,” she said as she handed him the pen. “Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she adds.
After being aired on television, it was then shown on social media and has gone viral. One of the bank workers even got in on it, saying that they didn’t think it was legal and adding: “I don’t think this is legal. He doesn’t look well. He’s very pale.”
The woman just claimed that he didn’t say anything and suggested that he may need a visit to the hospital. The bank staff was not very happy and they started recording the situation as it unfolded. They also called the police, and she was arrested.
According to the investigation, the 68-year-old man, NAME had died a few hours prior to being taken to the bank for the financial paperwork.
The police chief said: “She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead.”
They are going to look into the circumstances associated with the death and his relationship to her. They are also looking into the reasons why she attempted to commit bank fraud and said that she may be facing charges of fraud, embezzlement, and the abuse of a corpse.