A man decided to rob a restaurant in Langley, BC. He strolled into the diner and pointed a gun at the cashier.

“Give me all your money,” he demanded.

At that, several customers stood up… no less than 6 police officers from the local RCMP detachment were in having coffee, the restaurant being their usual hangout (3 blocks from the station). The would-be robber hadn’t noticed the four police cars in the parking lot, for some reason. The man was immediately arrested.

The following story was told to us by a current officer of the Florida Highway Patrol.

Young man in his twenties is involved in a minor traffic accident. He was hit in the rear by another car. The other party agrees to settle without the aid of law enforcement. The young man agrees to follow the other party back to their house. On the way he remembers that he has no insurance and his tag is expired. He decides to flee and is closely followed by the other party.

He returns to his house and is confronted by the other party. Feeling he is already in trouble he convinces the other party to settle the dispute “like men” and challenges the other party to a fist fight. The young man is about 5 ft. 6 in. and 160 lbs. The other party is 6 ft. 2″ and 245 lbs.

The young man looses the fist fight and the other party leaves. The accident wasn’t his fault but he gets beat up anyway.

PS - The driver of the other car, that won the fight, went home to tell the owner of the car, his mother, what had happened. She asked if there was a report made and he said no. She proceeded to beat him up so badly he landed in the Hospital! Go Figure!

My foster daughter’s real brother, 18 years old at the time, was pulled over by the police in our small city in Western South Dakota. The officer noticed that the young man had several bags of “leafy substance” in bags in the car and promptly arrested him.

The officer casually asked the boy if he had any more than the 7 one-ounce bags they had found. His reply?

“Well, I used to have a pound but I sold the rest.”

Yes, he spent some time at the state pen.

Jack Tatum walked into the Peoples Bank located on Eglin Parkway, in Shalimar Florida, just a short distance from the Criminal Investigations Divison of the Okaloosa county Sheriff’s Office with the intent to rob it. At the time Investigator James Wells was in the drive thru trying to cash his paycheck.

He looked in the rear view mirror and there was Tatum walking by his car, a blue Ford crown Vic unmarked, with blackwall tires, tinted windows and about 5 antennas. Tatum is putting on his mask and is carrying a long gun into the bank

Wells got on the radio and advised other officers of the potential robbery and the Investigations office emptied. All units proceeded to the bank just in time for the robber to leave and get in his truck and start to drive away. He was pursued by the entire investigative staff. He led a very short chase only to pull into his driveway where he was apprehended.

Later investigation revealed that Tatum had used a BB gun and was also responsible for another bank robbery across the street from this one a few months previous. He was sentenced to approximately 6 1/2 years in federal prison last week.

SEATTLE - A man was killed this morning when a garbage truck he was trying to commandeer rolled over on him in Pioneer Square.

Leonard E. Gefken, Jr., 39, who lived in a downtown shelter, was killed when a Rabanco Co., front-loading truck rolled over on him at Third Avenue and Yesler Way, according to police.

The driver, Daniel Tanev, 24, of Sea Tac, suffered minor injuries. He was released after treatment at Harborview Medical Center.

Police said Gefken was trying to carjack the truck when he and Tanev got in a struggle in the truck’s cab, apparently while it was moving. The truck tipped over, crushing Gefken who died at the scene.

Never in his dreams did a burglar believe he’d get caught - until police woke him out of a deep sleep he was enjoying in the house he had just broken into.

Police spokesman Constable Stephane Lacasse said the burglar had tripped a silent alarm when he broke into the house last Friday, but police couldn’t find anyone when they searched the home.

But a neighbor who volunteered to stay behind to clean up phoned police a short while later to report she could hear someone snoring in an upstairs bedroom.

“The officers found the burglar in a deep sleep under one of the beds,” Constable Lacasse said, adding officers had difficulty waking the sleepy thief.

Jean-Guy Hache, 32, was arraigned on a charge of breaking and entering.

Larry Pryor’s girlfriend worked for one of those psychic hotline companies and apparently those companies pay their psychics based on how long the customers are kept on the line.

He would dial up his girlfriend’s psychic line when he got to the bank where he worked and then would leave the phone off the hook and connected to her line for hours. Many, many hours. 546 hours over a five month span.

The calls cost the bank $163,000 in charges before someone got suspicious.

The question is - if his girlfriend is psychic, why didn’t she see this coming?