Cape Town - Two men and a woman tried to claim the pension of a dead man by taking his corpse into a post office and attempting to manoeuvre his hand on a fingerprint identification card.
Holding up the body between them, the three arrived in the main post office of the South African city of East London, approached a counter used to serve illiterate people and said the man was an uncle who was not feeling well.
When a postal worker approached and felt the pensioner, he discovered that he was "ice cold." Paramedics said the man had been dead for some time.