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

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**Created:** [April 12, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-weekend-at-bernies-moment-in-liverpool/535885 "2010-04-12T21:31:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-weekend-at-bernies-moment-in-liverpool/535885/1 "2010-04-12T21:31:27Z")

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I’m not in the habit of starting threads about every silly little story in the news, but [this one](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100409/od_nm/us_corpse_airport_germany_odd) had me laughing.

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