A "Weekend at Bernie's" moment in Liverpool.

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I’m not in the habit of starting threads about every silly little story in the news, but this one had me laughing.

She told the paper the 91-year-old former pilot had died at the airport just before the flight.

“I’m not a smuggler,” Jarant, 66, told Bild. “My Willi only died at the airport. He suddenly looked so lifeless, like a wax figure. His fingernails turned blue all of a sudden. At home he was still warm – I swear!”

The retired pilot was pushed in a wheelchair through the airport wearing sunglasses before check-in staff became suspicious and he was prevented from boarding the plane.

It was the whole sunglasses thing that brought “Weekend at Bernie’s” to mind.