YOU SEE, WE REALLY LOVE EACH OTHER
A woman called police after a violent argument with her husband at their Crestview, Fla., home in which he threw a oil lamp at her and poured Gatorade over her head. When the cops grabbed him later, he told them they had “worked things out.”

SAY, WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MONEY
Thieves stole $8,000 in dollar bills patrons had hung on the walls of a restaurant in Inyokern, Calif. People there traditionally wrote messages on the bills before hanging them up. A few days later, one of the thieves used some of the very distinctive bills to pay a court fine. Arrests resulted.

AREN’T YOU OVERREACTING A LITTLE
The parents of a 36-year-old woman, who lives with them in their Tokyo home, asked her to throw out some of the thousands of comic books she had collected because they were taking up so much space. So she went on the Internet to find someone to kill them. Her plot failed.

BUT HE LOOKED JUST LIKE A PATIENT
A man attempted to rob a chiropractor’s office in Toledo, unaware an off-duty police officer had an appointment there at the very same time. It was over quickly.

IT LOOKS LIKE ONE OF US PUT IN A LOT OF EFFORT
A man applying for a job included what he claimed were samples of his work, which, by an unfortunate coincidence, were actually done by the person who was interviewing him.

A FASHION STATEMENT FOR THE AGES
Apparently unable to find a mask, a man broke into a restaurant in Coralville, Iowa, wearing a pair of underwear over his face.

REMEMBER, ALWAYS PLAN AHEAD
Two armed men in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, robbed a security van containing $1.3 million, but they had to leave half the money inside. Their getaway compact car was too small to hold it all.

YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME COPPER!
An intoxicated woman stopped her car at a red light in Wichita, Kan., at 1 a.m. and fell asleep with the engine running. Another driver called the cops, who came and put spikes in front of her rear tires then woke her up. She hit the gas to flee and shredded her tires.

I DON’T WANT THE JOB NOW; I’LL JUST TAKE THE MONEY
One of three gunmen who robbed a Philadelphia doughnut shop had previously filled out a job application to work there. Police now have his name and address.

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