If taxes aren’t your thing, at least take a break from the elec­tions with this, which might as well be one of David Simon’s rejected story ideas:

After Mr. Cin­tron recently died, Mr. O’Hare, 65, and another friend, David Daloia, also 65, whose last known address was in Queens, tried, with­out suc­cess, to cash a Social Secu­rity check of Mr. Cintron’s, the police say. They real­ized that they needed their dead buddy’s help.

So on Tues­day after­noon, the police say, they dressed Mr. Cintron’s corpse, car­ried him down a flight of stairs and heaved his body into a com­puter chair with wheels. Out­side, they rolled him over the uneven side­walk, pulling the chair toward Pay-O-Matic, a check-​cashing shop on Ninth Avenue.

But as the men turned the corner, trying to steady the floppy corpse, they ran into the law. [Read more]