A Honduran man faked images of his own death as a way to stop his wife asking for money every single week
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| Danny Gonzalez tried to fake pictures of his own death to stop his wife demanding money from him |
A MAN from Honduras resorted to desperate measures to stop his wife repeatedly asking him for money.
Danny Gonzalez, 27, tried to fake pictures of his own death by staging photos of him apparently dead on a morgue slab with cotton wool in his nostrils and mouth.
While Danny is currently working in the US, photos of him 'dead' were sent to his wife who lives in Saba, southern Honduras, as he was fed up of her always asking him for money.
In a message to her it claimed he had died of cancer and asthma, according to local reports.
But hapless Danny's ruse was soon revealed when local media in his hometown reported his death and the news reached his friends and elderly parents.
Relatives quickly realised the truth as Danny rather gave the game away by appearing to smile in the photos.
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| Friends and family though spotted he appeared to be smiling in some pictures |
Others pointed out that rather than lying in a mortuary he appeared to be on a double bed and the sheet covering him looked more like a pillow case.
Eventually Danny was tracked down - alive and well - and he confessed everything.
He told the TV Sur channel: “My wife would call me every week just to ask to send more money.
"Every Saturday she would call me telling me I had sent her so much, and I needed to send her this much more.
"The rest of the week, not even a message. She would never send photos or ask me anything else.
“She kept asking me to send her mobile phones.
"I’d already sent six and she always rang me to tell me it had been stolen.”
A neighbour though told the channel that news of his death had delivered a "terrible blow" to his parents who also live in Saba.
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| Danny was tired of constant demands for money from his wife in Honduras |
Danny also came under fire from social media, with Zuly Deras writing: “Better to have been honest with your parents and tell them that you no longer want to help them, than not to lie in that way. You can really die after playing in that way. God have mercy on you.”
In the 2015 census in the US, 837,694 Hondurans were living in the US, the eighth largest Hispanic group in the country.
Many Hondurans work as migrant farm labourers.