An elderly bank robber tried to raise cane in an Oklahoma heist, but the tables turned on him instead.
Kenneth Ray Dean, 71, tried to rob the BancFirst Expressway bank in McAlester with his cane but the staff switched money bags on him, authorities said. He was arrested a short distance from the scene of the crime – without a penny.
Problems are dogging one Canadian city hall.
The city of Ottawa is demanding compensation and an apology from the Bell Canada telephone company after errors in the new phone book confused the addresses of City Hall and a spay-and-neuter clinic.
Pet owners have been showing up at City Hall with their dogs and cats expecting surgery only to be told they’re barking up the wrong tree. Now officials are rabid at this and other errors.
A British mother and daughter kept it in the family when they gave birth to sons on the same day, in the same hospital.
Amy Cossey, 18, was first into the delivery room at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. She gave birth after three hours of labor to baby Harvey.
Her mom, Kim Roberts, 42, was asleep down the hall after being admitted the previous day. Fourteen hours later, she gave birth to Haydn.
A flag-waving patriot is proud – and loud.
Ray Saelens of Chesterfield Township, Mich., was issued a summons for annoying neighbors with his noisy flag. They had complained that Old Glory’s flapping kept them awake.
He rejected requests that he take the flag down at night and instead offered to switch to a smaller flag, and it was a done deal.
“Discretion is the better part of valor,” he said.
By 2060, the gravity of the world’s problems could result in the apocalypse, according to recently unearthed predictions by Sir Isaac Newton.
Academics in Jerusalem unearthed the little-known handwritten manuscripts. The pages show that Newton was attempting to decode the Bible, which he believed contained God’s secret laws for the universe. He set the year 2060 for the apocalypse, and predicted the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues and war triggering a 1,000-year reign by saints on earth – which would include himself.