Bank robber with an unusual request

Waterloo Police have arrested a man they say robbed a downtown Waterloo bank. It happened at the US bank on Cedar Street around 10:00 Monday morning.
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28-year-old Kurtis Culbert of Waterloo has been arrested. He is charged with second degree robbery.

Police say Culbert passed a note to a teller, saying he had a gun and needed $80. He did get away with cash and without showing any weapon. Culbert was taken into custody in Cedar Rapids. He is being held in the Black Hawk County Jail.

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Man glued to toilet seat at Wal-Mart

Elkton, Md. police say a man became stuck to a department store toilet seat after someone spread glue on it. It happened at the Wal-Mart in Elkton. Officials refused to say how long the man was stuck before he was able to get help.

Police say emergency workers removed the seat from the toilet and took the man out with seat still attached to him. The seat was removed at the emergency room at Union Hospital.

Police say the incident is a second-degree assault case that may have been a random prank.

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Man helps himself to beer at Walgreen’s

A man suspected of stealing beer from a Wichita store says there's a logical explanation.

The 25-year-old man was arrested late Saturday on his way out of a Walgreen’s in northwest Wichita. Since the store was already closed, the man tripped the burglar alarm -- and a police officer caught the suspect nearby with a case of light beer.

The man explained that he couldn't get any employees to sell him the beer while the store was still open. So he found a place to hide, and then waited for the store to close and the employees to leave before he helped himself.

There's no word on charges, and the man's name has not been released.

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Police arrest man who had been praying nude

Police Lincoln, Neb. says a man praying in the nude was arrested on a public street west of downtown Lincoln.

Capt. Jim Davidsaver said that a passer-by reported seeing the man early Sunday morning, kneeling and looking to the sky. When an officer asked the man why he was nude, the man said he didn't know.

He was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure.

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Unknown woman accused of lifting 14 lobsters

Police in Rochester, N.H., would like to get their claws on a woman accused of shoplifting 14 live lobsters.

Authorities released a surveillance photo Monday that shows the woman pushing a shopping cart near the front of the Milton Road Market Basket grocery store.

Police said that the woman entered the store Friday afternoon and asked for a selection of lobster from the clerk in the seafood department.

Store employees say the woman received the lobsters and then left the store without paying. She left in a blue van with a partial license plate "222."

Police Capt. Paul Callaghan says the 14 lifted lobsters amounted to about 16 pounds of seafood.

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Iceland's penis museum gets human specimen

In life, Pall Arason was an attention-seeker. In death, the 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will be the main attraction at one of the world's most bizarre museums.

Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, says Arason's organ will help complete his extensive collection of whale, seal, bear, and other mammalian members. The museum has been open since 1997 but Hjartarson has long waited for a human specimen to round out his display.

The museum now contains a collection of two hundred and nine penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland.

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Men in Heels

A few dozen men seeking to raise awareness for sexual assault violence against women tried to walk a mile in their shoes Friday — literally.

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Among the participants — some burly and others bearded — in the fourth annual "Walk a Mile in her Shoes" event at the University of Alaska Anchorage was the head of Alaska State Troopers, Col. Keith Mallard, who slipped out of one of his red suede peep-toe shoes during the walk.

"I had a blowout," Mallard said sheepishly. "It didn't hinder my progress any. I just had to pull to the side and get a tire change."

The men teetered precariously along the mile-long route, trying to raise money for a local nonprofit that supports sexual assault victims. Donations to Standing Together Against Rape will go toward banishing sexual assaults and other acts of violence against women.

The men were game, even if it meant nearly tripping over their own stilettos.

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Kung Fu master lifts weights from his eyelid

It's no optical illusion - Feng Hu really is clenching a steel nail with his eyelid and swinging weights from it. The eye has it: Feng Hu puts a steel nail at the corner of his eye, ties a rope to a bucket of water and lifts it

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Kung Fu master Feng - from Luoyang, Henan province, central China - began staging his shows after decades of studying pain control techniques as part of his kung fu training.

Feng who likes swinging a bucket of water from his eye, explained: 'I can redirect my chi to make parts of my body forget about their nerves and they no longer hurt or get damaged. 'People think it is magic but it is years of dedication and training.'

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Penis graffiti wins art prize in Russia

Voina, the radical art group behind that giant penis drawing on that drawbridge in Russia, have won a major prize for their efforts.

The group painted the 220ft-long phallus on St Petersburg's Liteiny Bridge in protest at heightened security in the city ahead of June's International Economic Forum.

As you can see in the video below, the idea is that the penis rises, erection-like, when the bridge is raised to let traffic through.

The drawbridge happens to be opposite the headquarters of the FSB security service - one of St Petersburg's tourist attractions.

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Prostitute killed client after learning he had STD

A prostitute shot a client to death when their sexual encounter was interrupted by a woman banging at the man’s door, claiming he’d given her a sexually transmitted disease, prosecutors allege.

Ashley Nicole Steele, 21, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Derrick Gray, 40, in the 8200 block of South Langley Avenue.

Steele was denied bond and a preliminary hearing was set for April 26, Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokesperson Tandra Simonton said.

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Steele, a prostitute, had arranged to meet Gray at his home to have sex. The two went into his bedroom but a few minutes later Gray heard a knock at the door, prosecutors said.

He got dressed to see who it was, leaving both Steele and another person, identified as a witness, in the home.

It was a woman screaming at Gray and pounding on the door. At that point, Steele grabbed a handgun from a table and put it in her waistband, court records said.

Steele went to the door and the woman said Gray had given her herpes. The woman also showed Steele text messages Gray sent her, apologizing that he’d given her a STD, according to court records.

The woman at the door said Steele began pacing back and forth, saying she was going to kill and rob Gray.

She shot at him through the door, striking him once. She then opened the door and shot him two more times. He suffered gunshot wounds to the head, body and arms, authorities said.

Steele then fled out a window with the gun to a car that was waiting for her. The driver took her to a Wal-Mart where she bought clothes, shoes, bleach, gloves and a baby bath tub, court records show. She was taken to another location where she changed clothes and scrubbed the gun with bleach in the tub.

Steele stuffed the gun and other items into several garbage bags and was driven to Calumet City, where she put them in various dumpsters.

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Thief uses stolen card to send 'thank you'

Police in Narragansett, Rhode Island said a thief who charged $2,400 to a woman's credit card used the card to send flowers and a "thank you" note to the victim's home.

Investigators said Bank of America officials contacted the Narragansett woman in March and informed her of $2,400 in suspicious charges to her credit card.

The charges included $65 for flowers sent to the woman's home with an accompanying note reading, "thnx for ur money."

Police said they were trying to track down the thief. Bank of America officials said the credit card has been canceled and the woman will not be responsible for the charges.

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Toddler Given Alcohol At Applebee's

Police are investigating after a toddler was given an alcoholic beverage at an Applebee’s.

It happened at the restaurant in Madison Heights.

Fifteen-month-old Dominic Dill-Reese’s mother ordered him a kid’s meal and asked for apple juice as the beverage. His mother began to get suspicious moments after he started drinking it. “We took it from him and he laid his head on the table,” said Taylor Dill-Reese. “He dozed off a little bit and woke up and got real happy.” Dill-Reese also said Dominic refused to eat when his food arrived.

Before leaving, Dill-Reese tasted the toddler’s drink and got a big surprise. Instead of apple juice, alcoholic margarita mix was in his cup. “The manager came up to me and he smelled it, ‘I am so sorry ma’am, I just don’t know what to do,’” said Dill-Reese.

She demanded the manager do something. Madison Heights police was called to investigate the incident and the boy was taken to the hospital. Doctors told Dominic’s mother he could have died if he drank the entire cup.

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Man jailed for 'squatting' in upscale W. Pa. home

A man in Murrysville has been jailed on charges that he took up residence in a $500,000 western Pennsylvania home without the owner's permission.

Frederick Harris III, of Wilmerding, remained in the Westmorland County Prison Friday on burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief charges filed when Murrysville police say they found him in the home.

Police say the 43-year-old Harris had toured the home with a real estate agent who refused to give him keys. He later broke a window, pulled up the 'for sale' sign and moved in anyway. Police were alerted when a caretaker noticed someone in the house.

Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said that Harris car was in the garage. He had personal items in the home. He basically was making a home there."

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Man Stole Judge's Gavel from Courtroom

Magistrate Daniel Cook, who handles small claims cases in Lorain, Ohio, was on the bench when he reached for his gavel and discovered it was missing. After checking “every possible place it could be,” police reported, Cook concluded that someone had actually stolen his gavel.

Court personnel then reviewed surveillance video from days earlier and spotted an unknown male stealing the wooden gavel. The alleged thief, staffers realized, was accompanied by a second man who “was in court on that day trying to get his license back,” according to authorities.

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In short order, cops identified the suspect as Christopher Collins, and prosecutors secured an arrest warrant for the 47-year old. Collins, pictured in the mug shot, was then arrested at his residence, where he was questioned about the “whereabouts of the gavel.”

Collins, police noted, “admitted to stealing the gavel, but stated he did not have it at the house.” He claimed to have received a ride home from the courthouse from “a male he barely knows,” and left the gavel in the man’s vehicle.
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There are snakes on the bus

Passengers on a bus in Argentina got an unwelcome surprise when police found more than 600 snakes and other reptiles packed in the luggage compartment, a ranger said Saturday.

Acting on a tip police intercepted the bus in a northern province bound for Buenos Aires, asked to see passengers' documents, then began poking into their bags.

"A passenger came onboard with 40 snakes, plus what he had in the boxes" in the bus luggage hold, said ranger Daniel Chersich, warden of Santa Fe province.

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Police "were terrified of opening the bags," with good reason.

The trafficker had loaded them with 444 boas, vipers and other snakes; 186 endangered tortoises; 40 lizards, and an armadillo.

The smuggler, who was arrested, boarded the bus in Santiago del Estero, where he had spent three months trapping various species in the bush with the intent of selling them.

They Fought The Law... And The Law Won

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