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'Keep Smiling Bandit' on the Loose in Orange County

FBI searching for Calif. bank robber who tells victims to grin as they pass the cash

(Newser) - His words may seem cheerful, but his actions have been anything but. A California bank robber now called the "Keep Smiling Bandit" is being sought in two Orange County robberies in which he verbally instructed the likely terrified tellers to keep grins on their faces as they handed the...

Pop Quiz Goes Awry When Teacher Pulls Knife: Cops

Math teacher faces 2 felony charges

(Newser) - Teachers don't like it when students talk during exams—but one teacher in New Mexico apparently really doesn't like it. Police say Benjamin Nagurski was arrested Friday after allegedly pulling a knife as kids chatted during a pop quiz in his math class at Bernalillo Middle School, and...

Bad Game of Battleship: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Also making the cut: people who don't know the correct way to use social media

(Newser) - A bad joke gone awry and a heated Battleship game are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Cops: Game of Battleship Turned Criminal : An allegedly intoxicated dad was hauled into a Utah jail after he reportedly went ballistic on his teen daughter, accused her of cheating during a
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Guy Used Bogus Cancer Story to Con Woman: Cops

But really used the $15K to feed gambling habit

(Newser) - State police say a Pennsylvania man who befriended a woman at a harness racing track two years ago conned her out of $15,000 by pretending he had cancer. Police say 59-year-old David Lancos of Baden told them he used the money to feed his gambling habit; they add that...

Mom Uses App to Find Son ... at Police Station

When teen didn't answer, she tracked his iPhone

(Newser) - A mom worried that her teenage son wasn't answering his phone used an app to track him down, but she wasn't too happy where the trail ended. That would be the 103rd Precinct in Queens, reports DNAinfo . The 16-year-old was being held for questioning with another teen in...

Master Hacker's Downfall: Password Was Cat's Name

Jeremy Hammond didn't put up much of a wall

(Newser) - Jeremy Hammond is a guy so notorious for hacking anything and everything that he's currently cooling his heels in federal lockup for 10 years over his penchant for opening cyber doors. So it's more than a little surprising when, in the course of an interview at Manchester Federal...

Cops: Game of Battleship Turned Criminal

Police say teen's cellphone-activated GPS saved her from drunken dad

(Newser) - GPS technology may have saved a Utah teen from major harm after a Battleship game gone wrong. Utah County police say a bunch of 911 calls came in Saturday night, but there was no response on the other end save for the sounds of a female arguing with a man,...

Facebook Post Dooms 'Serial Wildlife Killers'

3 hunters caught in Nevada

(Newser) - Three men convicted in a state court of illegal hunting in Nevada—a lot of illegal hunting—might have gotten away with it had they not kept boasting about their kills on Facebook, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal . Instead, wildlife officials eventually stumbled upon a photo of deer shot out of...

Guy Hit by Car Gets Ticket for Jaywalking

Police say he was drinking, entered roadway

(Newser) - A 50-year-old New Jersey man was hit by a car Saturday, but, apparently not feeling he had already been punished enough, police ended up ticketing him for jaywalking. The man was found lying in the road Saturday night as police investigated a small brushfire nearby; he had apparently been struck...

Moviegoer Maces Guy Who Asked Her to Turn Off Phone

She shines flashlight in his face, then sprays him: witnesses

(Newser) - A woman fed up with getting asked to turn her phone off resorted to extreme measures last night: She sprayed her fellow filmgoer with mace, Mashable reports. A witness at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theater tells the site that the man politely asked the woman several times to switch off...

Fight Over Whether Pal Was Dead Turns Criminal

Some people cannot take a joke; others cannot make them

(Newser) - It started when one guy thought it would be funny to tell two friends that a mutual friend was dead, and as the Northwest Florida Daily News reports, it quickly went downhill from there, ending in criminal charges for one Henry Hill Shiver Jr. Seems Shiver took the "news"...

Cranberries Singer Allegedly Headbutted Cop Trying to Arrest Her

Dolores O'Riordan arrested in assault on flight attendant

(Newser) - Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of popular '90s band The Cranberries, has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a female flight attendant during an overnight flight from New York to Ireland's Shannon Airport ... and then allegedly headbutting the police officer who tried to arrest her, TMZ reports. The 43-year-old,...

5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including an IRS worker who allegedly went a little crazy

(Newser) - An unfortunate wrong turn and an elderly man charged with helping the hungry are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Guy Uses Unusual Mode of Transportation to Get to Local Bar : Police in Western Australia say a man decided to stop for a beer at a pub after
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90-Year-Old in Trouble for Feeding Homeless—Again

'Nice guy' Arnold Abbott says he'll keep dishing out meals

(Newser) - A simple citation couldn't keep Arnold Abbott off the streets of Fort Lauderdale, where he's been feeding the homeless for more than two decades. The 90-year-old man, charged Sunday with violating a new ordinance that clamps down on public feeding of the homeless, dished out meals at a...

Why You Should Never Use Wife's Urine for a Drug Test

Yes, because she might be pregnant

(Newser) - Two tales of men accused of trying to cheat drug and alcohol tests, neither of which ends well:
  • Congratulations: A bus driver in Egypt provided his wife's urine to avoid a drug test, which officials know because tests revealed it belonged to someone two months' pregnant, reports the BBC
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Alleged Meth Smuggler Chooses Wrong Parking Lot

Sylvia Mashiah busted with 27 pounds of meth after parking in federal 'search' lot

(Newser) - You just had one job, suspected drug smuggler: to get across the US-Mexico border with 27 pounds of meth. And technically, Sylvia Mashiah allegedly did that—until she screwed it all up, according to Customs and Border Protection agents. The 33-year-old California woman allegedly drove up to the Otay Mesa...

2 Pastors and Man, 90, Charged for Feeding Homeless

Fort Lauderdale officials say they're simply enforcing public food-sharing law

(Newser) - "Drop that plate right now" was the command hurled at 90-year-old Arnold Abbott on Sunday before he was charged with violating Florida law. His crime: feeding Fort Lauderdale's homeless. Abbott and two pastors, Dwayne Black and Mark Sims, were cited for disobeying a new city ordinance that effectively...

Cops: Drunk IRS Worker Tried to Bribe Us

After knocking out woman at NFL game

(Newser) - Pittsburgh police say an Internal Revenue Service worker tried to bribe officers when they arrested him for being drunk and throwing steel crowd dividers, one of which knocked a woman unconscious, during a Steelers game. Police say 29-year-old Stephen Sapp was screaming and cursing after he was asked to leave...

Trick-or-Treater Given Bag of Crystal Meth

Parents find it among 8-year-old's candy

(Newser) - Checking out their 8-year-old daughter's Halloween candy, parents in the San Francisco Bay Area came upon something that definitely wasn't a Snickers. It was a .1-gram bag of crystal meth, police say. "This could have been intentional or it could have been accidental, and we won't...

Guy Parks Plane Outside Pub, Goes in for a Beer

Thirsty Aussie drives wingless plane through town

(Newser) - Buying a plane must be thirsty work: Police in Newman, Western Australia, say a man who had just purchased a two-seater Beechcraft decided to drive it home and stop for a beer at a pub on the main street on the way. A resident says he was astounded to see...

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