LONDON (11-04) - A doctor treating a patient on a busy Saturday night, realised it was the same man who had robbed him at knife point five months earlier. Dr. Moore, 28, had been with his friends at the Escape nightclub, when Karl Telemaque cornered Moore, threatened him with a knife, and demanded his cash. The doormen tried to detain the mugger, but he escaped. Several months later, after getting into a street fight, Telemaque went to get treatment at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary where Dr. Moore was working. Telemaque was arrested and admitted to the robbery and eight other offences. Judge John Prosser told Telemaque, "you are a danger to the public."

LONDON (11-05) - During an attempt to rob a post office of $15,000 with a fake gun, Mark Cason, 29, forgot to wear his mask, couldn't open the safe door by himself and got two children to open the outside door for him because the money bag was too heavy.
The kids wrote down Canon's plate number since he was stuck in slow traffic. Canon escaped to the Bradbury Hall Country Club where he requested that the receptionist place the money in the vault and not tell the police he was there. After two days, and a tab of $4,500 on drinks, Cason was arrested by the police. When they asked him what his occupation was, Cason responded: "I'm an armed robber." He received a five year jail sentence.

CAIRO (11-02) - A young Egyptian man wooed his fiancee by asking for her hand in marriage, buying her jewellery and renting a love nest, only to discover on the wedding night -- and after the ceremony -- that he had married someone else. What he found when he lifted the veil was an unattractive woman of 45, not his 18 year old beauty that he had fallen in love with. The man fainted on the spot. Soon after the man regained his senses, he went to the police to file a complaint against his in-laws who had cheated him.

PHNOM PENH, Vietnam (28-11) - Nou Meas, 65, played a bad joke on his wife when he attempted to surprise and tickle her from behind. The problem was that his wife was cutting firewood at the time, or to be more exact, she was cutting firewood ... with an axe.
Siek Phan's immediate reaction was to swing the axe behind her. When she turned around, she found her nearly decapitated husband laying lifeless on the ground. Phan, 62, has been arrested and charged with murder.

ZEPHYRHIILS, Fla. (24-11) - A man, apparently mad because his wife wouldn't go to dinner with him, admitted to the police that he set their rented mobile home on fire. The wife, Bonnie Bruinekool, told police that her husband had eight to 10 beers, then wanted to go to dinner. She refused, but Norman Bruinekool insisted to take the car. Bonnie refused to hand over the keys, but walked to a pay phone nearby.
When she returned she found fire coming out of a rear bedroom window, apparently caused by Bruinekool setting the bed sheets on fire. The mobile home was destroyed, the family car damaged, the dog and cat were dead. Mr. Bruinekool stated, "I know why I did it, I got nothing to hide."

DURHAM, N.C. (11-10) - He fell 30 feet, became impaled by a 2-by-4, which missed all of his major arteries, organs and spine, but lost half of his small intestine. Construction worker Lee Hooks was on the roof of an elementary school building when he slipped on a safety rope and fell, landing on a piece of lumber that was on the ground. Doctors at Duke University Medical Center cut a 2-foot incision across Hooks' abdomen in order to remove the board. Hooks is expected to make a complete recovery, but Dr. Larry Reed said, "Maybe in 6 months he could be back to his old self."

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