Peruvian Mayor pretends to be dead after he was caught by Police for breaching lockdown
More than 3,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Peru — but this public official was not one of them. The mayor of Tantara, Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, was photographed laying in an open casket pretending to be dead, after police caught him flouting coronavirus lockdown rules. The controversial figure had, police told local media, broke quarantine to go drinking with his friends, and was quite drunk when discovered playing coffin possum. One of his buddies lay in another beside him, while others from the group reportedly hid in drawers. They at least kept face masks on, however. The mayor and his posse were taken to the local police station where they were booked for violating curfew and social distancing laws, according to the Evening Standard .