Quote :

"Joseph Price, 61, left the PNC Bank in Okeechobee, Fla., empty-handed on May 6 despite having passed the teller a note demanding a "sack full of cash." However, he hadn't brought a sack with him, and the teller said she didn't have one, either. He was arrested seven minutes after leaving the bank. [United Press International, 5-10-2011] Joseph Brice, 21, of Clarkston, Wash., was indicted in May on one count of having manufactured a bomb in 2010. Brice inadvertently called attention to himself by ordering his bomb components under the name of (Oklahoma City bomber) "Timothy McVeigh." [Tacoma News-Tribune, 5-13-2011] "

These guys are only one letter off from each other and both made stupid news.

6/5/2011 12:30:45 PM

I'm sure everyone read about this a couple days ago, but it's an excellent addition to the thread

Quote :

" Twin friars die on same day of heart failure at age 92 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43271150/ns/us_news-life/ "

Born minutes apart, died hours apart... 92 years later... of the same ailment.

6/5/2011 12:34:30 PM

Quote :

"Nicoletta Pabst, 41, told the AP that sanitary conditions at the Hamburg-Eppendorf hospital were shocking and its emergency room was overflowing with ailing people when she arrived. "All of us had diarrhea and there was only one bathroom each for men and women — it was a complete mess," she said Saturday. "If I hadn't been sick with E. coli by then, I probably would have picked it up over there." After waiting three hours to be seen, Pabst was told to go home because her blood levels did not indicate that she had kidney failure. When her symptoms deteriorated sharply, she had to return by ambulance the next morning and was treated for a week at a different hospital. Her children were blocked from going to school."

6/5/2011 1:35:37 PM

Quote :

"Betty Taylor and Wall Boag, Disney Legends, Die Within A Day Of Each Other ANAHEIM, Calif. — They shared a stage at Disneyland five days a week for nearly three decades and died within a day of each other. Betty Taylor, who played Slue Foot Sue in Disney's long-running Golden Horseshoe Revue, passed away Saturday – one day after the death of Wally Boag, who played her character's sweetheart, Pecos Bill. The 91-year-old Taylor died at her home in Washington state, Disneyland announced on its web site. Boag, who was 90, died Friday. He was a resident of Santa Monica, Calif. The causes of death were not announced and attempts to contact relatives for comment were not immediately successful. "Betty's role as leading lady in Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue helped turn it into the longest-running stage show in entertainment history," George Kalogridis, the president of Disneyland Resort, said in a statement. `'It is a tragic coincidence that her passing comes just one day after the death of longtime co-star Wally Boag." Boag, a former vaudeville performer, signed a two-week contract with Walt Disney in 1955. He originated the role of Pecos Bill in the revue, taking the stage three times a day and logging nearly 40,000 performances before retiring in 1982. Most of those shows were alongside Taylor, who joined the revue a year after Hoag. Her run on the show – which closed in 1986 – lasted nearly 45,000 performances. The Golden Horseshoe Revue is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running stage production in show business history. "

6/6/2011 5:17:35 PM

http://www.reuters.com/news/oddlyEnough

/thread

6/6/2011 5:23:25 PM

Quote :

"Raleigh, N.C. — A man who rammed his pickup truck into a police car and resisted arrest after a domestic dispute last month committed suicide on Saturday while incarcerated at the Wake County jail. Max Felton Mitchell, 53, handed a detention officer a note, and once the officer realized it was a suicide note, took off after Mitchell, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said. Mitchell ran up a flight of stairs as the officer chasing him radioed for help, and jumped head first after reaching the top. The incident happened in under a minute, said Harrison, who added Mitchell was not on suicide watch nor had any red flags that he knew of. "

http://www.wral.com/inmate-commits-suicide-in-wake-jail/13518479/

Odd, pass suicide note, dart up steps, torpedo face first

3/27/2014 9:46:16 PM

His dedication made quite an impact.

3/27/2014 9:53:23 PM

The fall from the top can be tough to survive.

3/28/2014 12:07:26 PM

Took the express flight down

3/28/2014 12:10:17 PM