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I’m really not a sicko. It’s just that I read and write so much about identity theft, I’ve gotten a little jaded. But once in a while, the scum rises to the top and a truly bizarre story captures my attention.

Irene Prusik passed away in 2003, with her son, Thomas Parkin, at her side. Parkin said he and his mother were as one, Thomas said. In fact, that’s what he told the cops when he was arrested: “I help my mother when she was dying and breathed in her last breath, so I am my mother,” Parkin said.

That’s right: Parkin’s said it wasn’t a case of identity theft, but identity confusion. And if that’s the case he had it bad.

He was so confused he gave the funeral director a fake birth date and Social Security number so he couldn’t report his 73-yar-old mother’s death. Then he immediately began collecting her $100,000 in Social Security payments and rent subsidies. He even dressed up like an old lady wearing old lady clothes, a wig, make-up, sunglasses, nail polish and carrying a cane, when he renewed her driver’s license–as seen above–and when he filed for bankruptcy in her name.

Parkin was arrested yesterday at the Brooklyn home he and his mother shared. He was charged with grand larceny, forgery, conspiracy, perjury and criminal impersonation.

Also arrested was Mhilton Rimolo, who apparently shared in Parkins’ delusion and “believed” he was the concerned nephew who frequently helped his dear Auntie Irene get around the city and process transactions.

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