subject: Should The Gene Pool Have A Lifeguard? [print this page] Thomas Love, age 40, attempted to rob the WSFS Bank in New Castle, Delaware. He walked up to a teller and handed her a note. However, the teller couldn't read it. She handed the note back to Love and asked him to rewrite it so that it could be re-read. Love either panicked or became frustrated. He took back his note and left the bank without any money. Based on the description witnesses gave the police, Love was soon located and arrested. His illegible note was found in a nearby trashcan. Obviously, it hadn't been written with Love's "write" hand.
Henry Elmer robbed the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank in Yuma, Arizona. The fifty-six-year-old entered the bank, produced a box-cutter knife and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. However, Elmer made 2 serious mistakes. First, the bank he chose to rob was across the street from the Yuma Police Station. Second, he didn't make a clean getaway. Instead, he went to a nearby restaurant where he ordered and paid for a beer and pizza. Unfortunately for Elmer, the police arrived before he was served. It seems crime doesn't pay even when you use the bank's money to pay.
Jason West, a 38-year-old Utahan, felt he'd been wrongfully billed $25 by the Basin Clinic in Vernal. When he went to the clinic to pay, he asked staff members if they accepted cash. When they said yes, West dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter and demanded the staff count them. According to the Vernal Assistant Police Chief, the pennies that scattered all over the counter and floor served "no legitimate purpose"; and West was issued a citation for disorderly conduct carrying a fine up to $140. However, I don't think paying the fine with 14,000 pennies would be "penny-wise".
When a Spanish airport bus employee noticed a passenger struggling to put a heavy suitcase in the luggage hold, he notified authorities. When police opened the suitcase, they found a sweaty man doubled up contortionist-style. The man had a headlamp, a sharp tool for opening zippers and locks, a small sack and a cell phone. When the trip began, the man would get out of the suitcase and search the other luggage for valuables, which he'd put in his sack. Ninety minutes later when the bus reached the airport, the thief would be retrieved by his accomplice - obviously the "bagman".
