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PINE BLUFF, Ark. - It's one thing to have a bank robbery
attempt not go as planned. It's another to be unsuccessful and
have the bank staff laugh in your face. A man walked up to a
bank teller and demanded money be put into a garbage bag he
had with him. After the first teller told him they were out
of money, he walked up to another teller who offered the man
deposit slips so he could throw in some money to steal. The
employees proceeded to laugh at the man as he stormed out of
the bank empty-handed. Minutes after tellers alerted
authorities, Julius Kearney was picked up by police. Perhaps
the young man was just unlucky that the bank ran out of money
that day.

FRESNO, Calif. - Though drugs might not allow criminals to
think clearly, it seems they allow the crooks to have super-
human capabilities. Believed to be high on drugs of some sort,
Carlos Cruz was chased by police after his ex-girlfriend called
police while he chased her present boyfriend into the street
with a steak knife. Police confronted the Cruz and shot him
once with a Taser. Unfazed, Cruz ran back into the house,
through a sliding glass door, into the back yard and through
a wooden fence. He was shot again with the Taser but kept on
trucking. After a third hit, police were able to slow him down
and slap on the handcuffs. I'd hate to be him when the drugs
wear off.

RICHMOND, VA. - It looks like the attempted bank robber had
all the cameras accounted for except for one. Bizarrely enough,
on April Fool's Day, a picture was being taken for an alumni
magazine that captured the image of an attempted robbery in
the background. Bank executive Spencer Hamrick, Jr., was in
the lobby of a Wachovia bank posing while, just behind him,
his bank was being robbed. The photographer thought the
stickup guys was a customer and would provide a nice back-
ground for the shoot. The thief apparently passed a note to
a teller demanding money and claimed he had a gun. Hamrick
thought it was an April Fool's prank. The robber is in three
of the photographer's pictures and was identified by police,
while the bank's cameras failed to capture any images of the
suspect.

ALABAMA - For some couples, love knows no age. This has to be
the case for Daina Sancho and Irwin Vincent O'Rourke III of
Alabama. 42-year-old Sancho, mother of two, married 14-year-
old O'Rourke in Mobile County Probate Court on his 14th
birthday. Though it may sound illegal, the state only requires
a minor be at least 14 years old and that both parents sign
a consent, which O'Rourke's parents were willing to do. Now
the young husband will have to do his best to be a father
figure to Sancho's oldest daughter, who happens to be only
five years younger than him. This story would have been a lot
more shocking had it occurred in a state other than Alabama.

BERLIN - A German court has ordered a brothel to reimburse
a man charged for sex he could not remember having, after
the establishment failed to provide an itemized receipt for
services rendered. The brothel charged him $9,000 on his
credit card. The man told the court he had been too drunk
to remember what services he received and, therefore, wanted
his money back. According to the owner of the brothel, the
man ordered the "full program." A court spokesman said a
receipt in the form of, "two sexual intercourse sessions
at $600, oral sex at $300 or anal sex at $400 a go," should
have been issued. All that, and he can't remember?

The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie's Peter Pan.

Lady Peseshet of Ancient Egypt (2600-2100 BC) is the world's
first known female physician.

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain
had 1,200 doors.

Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.

The people killed most often during bank robberies are the
robbers.

Orville Wright numbered the eggs that his chickens produced
so he could eat them in the order they were laid.

On New Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with
8,513 people.

Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because
they were deaf.

Burt Reynold's father was the chief of police in West Palm
Beach, Florida.

English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime
juice to combat scurvy.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with
the other simultaneously.

Until he was 18, Woody Allen read virtually nothing but comic
books but did show his writing skills. He sold one-liners for
ten cents each to gossip columnists.

Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph without mentioning that
he was US President.

In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was
buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

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