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Yeah, here's to making 24 demand and finally settling for a few pizzas. The hostage negotiator deserves some kudos. I can almost hear the behind the scenes discussions. WE CAN NOT AND WILL not negotiate with prisoners. It makes us look weak, puts our guards at greater risk and would make for a more hostile environment. Oh wait, They'll settle for a few pizzas, I guess we can handle that.

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Some people will do anything for a drink

Paramedic tried to buy wine wearing only his thong after supermarket staff 'refused to serve him in uniform'
By Daily Mail Reporter

A paramedic was facing disciplinary action today after he walked into a supermarket crowded with shoppers wearing just a thong.

The ambulanceman had been on duty when he strode defiantly into the Tesco store wearing just the underwear and a pair of socks after staff refused to serve him while he was wearing his ambulance uniform.
Police were called in and interviewed the medic about his actions which were said to have left shop staff and customers embarrassed and stunned.
Supermarket showdown:The Tesco store in Addlestone, Surrey, where a paramedic stripped down to his thong and socks after being refused alcohol because he was wearing his uniform
The man, aged in his 40's, had walked into the large Tesco shop at Addlestone, Surrey wearing his full all-in-one green coloured ambulance uniform.
He selected a bottle of wine but become annoyed when the check-out assistant told him it was the store's policy not to sell alcohol to people wearing uniform.
The paramedic then stormed out of the shop, walked to his vehicle in the car park and took off his uniform.
However, he didn't stop there - and stripped right down to the thong and pair of socks he was wearing. Then he walked back into the shop and asked the same cashier:

'Now, I'm not wearing my uniform any more. Will you serve me now?' The assistant refused and the manager was called, along with the police.
Refused: Tesco would not serve the man while wearing his full ambulance uniform (posed by models)
Rachael Monkton, who had been in the Tesco store shopping when the incident took place, said: 'He was shopping with a woman when the girl at the check-out said she couldn't let him buy alcohol.
'He got a bit agitated and the manager was called over but she took the side of her employee.
'So the paramedic stormed out, leaving the woman at the tills and when he came back he was just in his underwear.
'People were staring at him and laughing - I couldn't believe my eyes. Normally people would pay to see a man in uniform strip but we got a free show,' added Rachael.
A spokesman for Tesco confirmed that it was company policy not to serve members of the emergency services if they were wearing uniform and stood by the cashier's actions.
'It is absolutely right that the cashier did not serve him when he was in uniform but what happened afterwards was unprecedented,' he said.
'We realise that the customer may not have understood why he was refused alcohol but it was simply a member of our staff following company policy and the actions which followed were wholly unnecessary,' the spokesman added.
The paramedic, who is employed by the South East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust, Surrey division, was understood to have been spoken to by his managers and to be facing the possibility of suspension and disciplinary action.

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That's a retarded store policy.
That paramedic
Males wearing thongs

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That policy seems a touch out of line to me. I can understand why you wouldn't want to sell booze to a public servant on duty, but that public servant could be off duty and on the way home. What a cop can't pick up a six pack after a long shift unless he changes to civies?

And is it wise to deny booze to someone wearing a gun.

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Moron...

How not to rob a bank

Don't leave your wallet at the scene, m'kay?

Albert Vincent Perkins, 39, of Kansas City, allegedly walked into the First Federal Bank at 4227 Blue Ridge Blvd. around 9 a.m. yesterday, May 7. He placed a checking brochure and a wallet on the counter, gave the teller a plastic bag, and told her to give him all the $100 bills in her drawer. He left with $3,129.

The teller told law enforcement agents that Perkins seemed agitated and nervous -- so much so that he left his wallet sitting on her counter. Both the bank teller and a customer who was in the bank identified Perkins' photo on his driver's license as the bank robber.

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Also,

..told her to give him all the $100 bills in her drawer. He left with $3,129.

That's a rather inept bank teller right there.

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Yeah... I had similar thoughts

And yet another moron...

Cops: Alleged liquor thief fills out raffle ticket

May 11, 4:49 PM (ET)

HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) - An alleged shoplifter with a bottle of whiskey in his pants decided to take one more gamble before leaving a Washington County liquor store: filling out a raffle ticket. But the gamble led police right to him. The man was charged Thursday with misdemeanor retail theft, resisting an officer and disorderly conduct.

After filling out the raffle ticket to win a ticket to a Slinger Speedway race, the 20-year-old also allegedly snatched two more whiskey bottles before he fled B&S Liquor in Hartford.

Owner Steve Jost said the store clerk saw the suspect fill out the ticket and wasn't going to chase him. The ticket box had been emptied the previous day, so the clerk opened the box after calling police.

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Sometimes, you never know what you're going to get...

Man busts wife, mate in porn DVD
May 13, 2009 01:40pm

A TAIWAN carpenter bought a porn DVD only to find secretly taped motel footage of his wife having sex with his friend, whom the husband later stabbed.
The husband, identified only by his surname Lee, discovered the illicit sex on the DVD in 2002.
The sexual acts apparently had been recorded using a hidden camera and were on a pornographic DVD, titled Affairs with Others' Wives, which the husband bought from a vendor to watch at home.
Lee, who lives in Taoyuan County near Taipei, divorced his wife after viewing the DVD. His friend, a butcher, fled their village.
In August 2008, Lee spotted the butcher in Chungli City, returned with a knife and stabbed his former friend in the thigh.
The butcher sued Lee for causing bodily harm. Lee sought but was unable to countersue the butcher for adultery, because of a five-year statute of limitations.
Prosecutors urged the men to settle the case out of court, but they refused.
With the failure to resolve the case, Lee was indicted on Tuesday on a charge of causing bodily harm to another person, the Liberty Times reported.
Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of less than six months in prison, which can be converted into a fine.