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ODD / NEWS Thu Nov 29, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Yahoo News -- A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to op.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 10:59pm neoform

SF Gate -- A woman who works as a makeup artist and deli clerk found $20,000 at a bank's drive-up depository, then calmly walked into the bank and turned over the cash. Linda Hatch said her mind raced in the seconds after she found the two $10,000 bundles in a plast.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

Yahoo News -- After demanding money, an alleged bank robber apparently had second thoughts because he asked the teller to call police and said he would be waiting outside on the curb, authorities said. When Philip Stuart Martin, 45, was arrested Wednesday outside Fi.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 11:38am neoform

Metro.co.uk -- Wolfgang Heinrich, 40, from the German town Wiesenburg, had been riding with his Haflinger horse Sammy when he stopped to have a drink with friends. But when he left the pub he realised he was too drunk to ride all the way home - and because it was col.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 7:35pm neoform

ABC News -- Kevin Russell found out it's not easy trying to cash a check from God. The 21-year-old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant," Hob.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Dec 6, 2006 @ 3:32pm mrmdc

Philadelphia Local News -- A wheelchair user turned down for a withdrawal followed another wheelchair user from a bank and snatched $30 from a carrying case on his chair, police said... Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

Yahoo News -- The Lapeer County sheriff wants to help two bank robbery suspects tie the knot. "I'll volunteer to marry them in the jail if they surrender," Sheriff Ron Kalanquin said Monday. Kalanquin said he wanted the Lapeer couple off the streets before their cas.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 4:38pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The man suspected of being the elusive hat-wearing bandit responsible for 18 bank robberies in New Jersey returned to federal court on Tuesday and admitted his involvement in all of them. James G. Madison officially pleaded guilty to six counts of bank.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sun Jul 8, 2007 @ 12:50pm neoform

CBS News -- Police are looking for a man who attempted to disguise himself as a tree and rob a bank in Manchester, New Hampshire Saturday morning. Police say the suspect used duct tape to attach tree branches onto his body as a form of camouflage. He then walked i.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:50pm neoform

Yahoo News -- There was the Miami Vice bandit, the Fanny Pack bandit, the Big Nose bandit, and then the Brunette bandit all named for memorable outfits or unique characteristics that bank tellers recalled after the holdup. Now police are looking for the first bank r.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 10:34pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A faulty bank fax printed a message that was misinterpreted as a bomb threat Wednesday, leading authorities to evacuate more than a dozen neighboring businesses and a day care center. The branch manager of the Bank of America called police about 10 a.m.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 1:13pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A suspected bank robber was arrested after he decided to grab a beer across the street from the alleged heist, authorities said. James Taylor, 40, was "just as cool as can be" after deputies found him Monday night, Orange County Sheriff's Cmdr. Jeff St.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who was buying rounds of drinks at a pub on St. Patrick's Day, after earlier complaining he was broke, has been charged with robbing a bank that morning. About $1,000 was taken from a Washington Mutual Bank soon after the bank opened at about 9 a.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 8:38am neoform

Stuff.co.nz -- An audacious man who robbed a post shop avoided a police manhunt by slipping into a second bank and also holding up staff, before escaping with his second bag of cash within 20 minutes. Despite more than 10 police officers scouring inner-city Wellingto.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 3:50pm mrmdc

BBC News -- An Aberdeen woman who asked for her bank statement was sent details of 75,000 other customers... Read More

ODD / NEWS Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 1:39am neoform

NJ -- Send this guy back to bank robbing boot camp. A would-be robber left two Jersey City banks empty-handed yesterday when tellers at both refused to comply with his demands for cash, police said... Read More