Two men have been charging after allegedly driving around Denver with a dead friend, using his ATM card, putting drinks on his tab and visiting a strip club while his corpse sat outside in a car.
Robert Jeffrey Young (43) and Mark Rubinson (27) are charged with abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation. They have been freed on bail.
It is unclear how their friend Jeffrey Jarrett died, but the men are not charged over his death.
The Denver Post reports that an affidavit accuses Mr Young of finding Mr Jarrett dead at the home they shared. Mr Young and Mr Rubinson are then alleged to have carried Mr Jarrett's body into a car, leaving it there while they drank at a bar on his tab on August 27th.
Investigators allege the men then stopped at a restaurant, returned Mr Jarrett's body to his home, used his card and withdrew $400 at a strip club before reporting his death.
"This is a bizarre and unfortunate crime," said Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson. "This isn't anything you want to have happen to a loved one. You want them treated with respect in death."