Men take dead buddy out on the town

Last month, these gentlemen, Robert Young and Mark Rubison, took their pal Jeffrey Jarrett out for drinks in Denver. Jarrett stayed in the car though. Why? Because he was dead. Still, he was kind enough to treat the whole night, even after the men dropped their deceased buddy off at home, grabbed some Mexican food, and headed to Shotgun Willie's strip bar. Sounds like a great idea for a movie! Oh wait. From the Denver Post:

A relative of Jarrett's, who asked not to be identified while the case is pending, said it all began after Jarrett invited a struggling Young — a buddy from their days at Colorado State University — to stay with him for a few months until Young could get on his feet.
Then, on Aug. 27, Young arrived about 11 p.m. at Jarrett's southeast Denver home, in the 1800 block of South Forest Street, and found him unresponsive. Rather than calling 911, he went to the restaurant where Rubinson works, according to court documents.
A search-warrant affidavit filed in the case outlines the rest of the night: The pair returned to Jarrett's home, loaded him into Rubinson's Lincoln Navigator and took him to Teddy T's bar and grill. Jarrett's body remained in the back seat while the pair drank on his tab. "Young stated . . . that it was obvious Jarrett was dead while all three are at Teddy T's," Denver Detective Ranjan Ford wrote in the affidavit.
Then they stopped at Sam's No. 3 before dropping off Jarrett's body back at his home. But they kept the bank card…
About 4 a.m., authorities say, the pair flagged down a Glendale police officer and told him that Jarrett might be dead at his house.

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querent

Couple of 59 watt bulbs, those two.
Sean Nelson

Anyone else having a hard time coming up for a motive for this odd joyride?
- dculberson
  
  They’re probably borderline homeless, and know once the guy’s declared dead they’re out on the streets. So they figured, one last fling before hitting the road.
  
  That’s my guess.
- Bubba73
  
  They could be a theater group doing an adaptaion of “Weekend at Bernie’s”, Next week it’s “The Shawshank Redemption”
  - Gulliver
    
    They could be a theater group doing an adaptaion of “Weekend at Bernie’s”, Next week it’s “The Shawshank Redemption”
    
    Well it sure won’t be The Hurricane.
LinkMan

Toting around dead friends for fun and profit is sooooo 2008.
Guest

It seems there are a lot of things to do in Denver when you’re dead.
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

not the first dead person i would have seen on the 16th street mall downtown.
kxvufjjhrvxqr

This is uncannily similar to plot of an episode of CSI I remembered watching. I just looked it up and it’s season 5 episode 23 in case anyone was interested http://www.tv.com/csi/iced/episode/415315/recap.html. At the time I remember thinking that’s one of those ridiculously bizarre and unnecessary crimes that would never happen in real life but the human race never ceases to push our boundaries.
- Happler
  
  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
http://maxhodges.com Max Hodges

sadly something similar happened with a girlfriend of mine. I dated a Vietnamese girl named Lan in Houston. She OD’ed on herion one day, and when her roommate came home and was unable to wake her up, she put her in the car and drove around town with her for several hours. Seems she wasn’t able to come grips with Lan being dead. :(
Brian Riggins

I think the real question is: why didn’t they leave the dude at home the ENTIRE time?
librtee_dot_com

About what I would expect from Lincoln Navigator drivers.
tinyinkling

Motive: — “He’s dead man.” “Whoa. Hey, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” “Weekend at Bernie’s?” “Totally man!”
ganarce

Things to do in Denver when you are dead
Guest

Ronald Reagan was in office for like 18 more months after he was clearly brain dead.
Blaze Curry

I judge this…Amoral at worst. Guy’s dead, what does he care?
- LintMan
  
  Driving his dead body around is bizarre but I wouldn’t necessarily say unethical if that’s all they did. But they also used his credit card to pay for a full night on the town, which I’d consider theft. Someone’s going to be stuck with that debt, and those bozos probably aren’t going to be the ones to pay it.
  
  More seriously, perhaps the guy was not yet dead when he was found? Could a 911 call have saved his life?
DewiMorgan

Interesting that this (driving around with a dead guy) seems to be a Thing.

It seems really rather common for people to drive around with dead spouses and such:
http://boingboing.net/submit/2010/10/woman-drives-for-months-with-dead-body-in-her-car.html

My guess is that it’s some kind of unthinking reflex by people in emotional/mental shock, who are acting mostly on conditioned behaviour rather than logic and higher executive functions. But I can only speculate to WHY the car seems most appropriate to people’s hindbrains.
elk

Shotgun Willie’s is still in business?!
bolamig

The guys in most strip clubs look like their friend just died. Seems like a good place to fit in with a dead friend in the car.
efergus3

“We did something wrong? Police dude, he would have WANTED us to!” About a half dozen functioning brain cells between the two of them.
goldenmansacks

Some of the more well-behaved guys in LoDo…
Mooph

I actually have a standing last request that on the day I die my friends take me out for one last night on the town. I was always inspired by that Errol Flynn legend. God help them though if they had left me in the car like that. We’re talking free-floating, full-torso, vaporous apparition time.
GatoRanch

And Denver has a GREAT sense of humor about this!

“Shotgun Willie’s offers corpse discount in wake of Weekend at Bernie’s misadventure”

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/09/shotgun_willies_corpse_discount_photos.php
Big_Onion

Man, even the criminals can’t find new material and need to remake old movie plotlines. Lame.
Cheryl Carter

I would have had some sympathy for these two idiots but they didn’t show any compassion for their friend. The least they could have done was allow him to join in on the fun. It was just rude to make him sit in the car.