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Curses, Foiled AgAin
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy in College
Station, Texas, for trying to pass a counterfeit
$5 bill. Officials said the bogus bill had an
“overwhelming number of imperfections,”
appearing to have been made by gluing two
sheets of paper together with images of the
front and back of a $5 bill printed on either
side. Further evidence that the bill consisted of
two pieces of paper cropped and glued togeth-
er was the observation that the front of the bill
was longer than the back. (The Eagle)
A woman who police said tried to rob two
credit unions in Memphis, Tenn., fled empty-
handed both times because tellers couldn’t
figure out what she wanted. The first attempt
ended with the frustrated robber throwing her
holdup note at the teller and running away
after the teller couldn’t understand her mum-
bling. A few hours later, a teller at the second
credit union kept asking the woman fumbling
in her purse what she wanted. Finally, she pro-
duced a note. When she also pulled a gun, the WaNT To See more of Joe GliSSoN’S carTooNS? Just visit the Arts and entertainment section at syracusenewtimes.com
teller left. The woman ran outside, tripped and
fell, dropped her gun, then got into a car and Wish Come true charging Megan Mariah Barnes, 37. After handsets: They have handles, you talk into
drove off. (The Commercial Appeal) her 1995 Ford Thunderbird slammed into the one end, and you can slam them down when
A Florida judge sentenced Sylvester Jiles, back of a 2006 pickup truck on Cudjoe Key, you want to hang up in anger. The company’s
Alerted by neighbors that someone was 25, to 15 years in prison for violating his pro-
breaking into their car, a couple in Lake City, Barnes drove another half-mile, then switched Moshi Moshi handsets, priced from $60
bation by trying to climb a 12-foot fence to seats with her ex-husband, Charles Judy, who to $200, attach to phones with a standard
Fla., used their entry remote control to lock break into the Brevard County jail. Jiles, who
the thief inside. “So every time he tried to get claimed he was driving. Burns on Judy’s chest 3.5-mm plug or to computers using a USB
accepted a plea agreement on manslaugh- from the passenger-side airbag disproved their adapter. Two models connect wirelessly by
out of the car, the owners just kept hitting the ter charges before his release, had begged
lock button on their key fob, and eventually he story. (Key West Citizen) Bluetooth. (Britain’s The Sunday Times)
jail officials to take him back into custody California psychologist Karin Hart has
gave up trying to get out,” Columbia County because he feared retaliation from the victim’s
sheriff’s Sgt. Ed Seifert said after Travis James invented a butt bra, a strap device that lifts a
Neeley, 19, was arrested. (The Gainesville
family. (Associated Press) guilty by Proximity woman’s derriere like a bra lifts her breasts.
Sun) Authorities in Glendale, Ariz., charged Hart said she got the idea for her Biniki butt
Gabriel Aguilera, 19, with murder after he lifter after using adhesive tape to support her
emergenCy PArking drove a stolen car through the gates at Luke sagging buttocks under clothing and receiving
deFenders oF the FAith After the driver of a fire truck responding Air Force Base, apparently by mistake while inquiries fro