Oregon police said they arrested a 48-year-old bank robbery suspect after he asked the son of the bank manager for directions to the bus station.
Yes. Right. Rob a bank and take a bus. They’d never expect that.
Apparently the man robbed the bank, fled and then asked for directions on the sidewalk outside a short time later.
Having heard a description of the robber, the young man called the bank, then employees looked out the window and identified the robber. Police picked him up a few blocks later.
Guess getaway cars are so, like, 1985.
STATE OF MIND: A Newark Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll reports that New Jersey residents like New Jersey but non-New Jersey residents still think of the state as a punch line. Exactly. That’s why Jersey residents keep living there and the rest of us send them our garbage barges.
WANT FRIES WITH THAT? A suburban Washington, D.C., woman was jailed after she shouted at, chased down and rubbed fries in the face of a 4-year-old boy who had spilled ice cream on her in a Maryland fast-food restaurant, police said. This may be the most ill-advised example of teaching a kid how to share.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN TEXAS: A 27-year-old man convicted of disciplining his 8-year-old stepson and 11-year-old stepdaughter with a stun gun got two years in prison from a judge. The man testified that he used the stun gun because traditional forms of corporal punishment didn’t work and that child welfare officials told him he couldn’t break bones or draw blood. Need a pen pal, sir? See above item.
GETTING LUCKY: A 34-year-old woman who won a $4.4 million slot machine jackpot in Atlantic City last week said she won because of a good luck kick from her unborn baby. In a seemingly unrelated story, a Spanish court refused to allow a woman to be artificially inseminated by her husband, who has been in a coma for more than 11 years.
