WEIRD & BIZARRE : Weird & Bizarre March 2004 76 Year Old Vet 'Trained To Kill' STOCKTON, Calif. - When two men held up a Bank of America branch in Stockton, California, they didn't plan on having to face Edward Christopher. The 76-year-old WWII vet saw the men taking money from a teller and moved to stop them. He didn't take any guff from the Krauts and he wasn't about to take it from these two whipper-snappers. The three men struggled and Christopher managed to rip one bag away from the thieves before they fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. In an interview Christopher said he's not particularly fond of police, reporters or even Bank of America, but he likes bank robbers even less. "I was trained to kill," he said, "and I've never been deprogrammed." Six Elderly Men Are Pregnant A  LONDON, England - Dear Sir, We are happy to inform you that you are pregnant. What's so strange about that, anyway? A hospital in London recently mailed 30 erroneous letters to patients, including six elderly men, telling them that they are expecting a bundle of joy. Instead, the patients were actually to have received a letter indicating their operations had been postponed. The hospital blamed it on human error. The letters were automatically generated by a computer, and an employee had to choose which "reason" it was to be sent. According to a spokeswoman for the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital said, "The girl operating the system has simply chosen the wrong option." Tell that to six 70-year-old men who think they are having a baby...In the meantime, the spokeswoman insists an error like this will not occur again. Prison Guard Demoted for Being Too Nice to Prisoners SWITZERLAND - "Who could believe that in 2002 I'm being criticized for being too humane?" Philippe Ackermann asked after being demoted as a guard at Delemont Prison. Prison authorities have scaled back his responsibilities for being too nice to the inmates and allowing seven of them to escape while he was on duty. Ackermann dismisses the charges, blaming the aging infrastructure for the getaways. One convict escaped when the prison's main door was negligently left open while the place was being painted. Another inmate was left alone with his wife and they were able to pry open the door with a screwdriver, but Ackermann contends that none of them were violent people anyway. "We are not a high security prison and we don't have dangerous criminals." The guard has a history of being "too nice", though. He was fined nine years ago for giving knitting needles to a convict who supposedly wanted to make a sweater. BACK TO TOP

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