>AT&T fired president John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked
>intellectual leadership." He received a $26 million severance package.
>Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.
>
>Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman
>who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas
>canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them,
>shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up!"
>
>An Illinois man pretending to have a gun kidnapped a motorist and forced
him
>to drive to two different automated teller machines. The kidnapper then
>proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.
>
>A 9-year-old boy in Manassas, Virginia received a one-day suspension under
>his elementary school's drug policy last week -- for Certs! Joey Hoeffer
>allegedly told a classmate that the mints would make him "jump higher."
>
>A student in Belle, West Virginia was suspended for three days for giving a
>classmate a cough drop. School principal Forest Mann reiterated the
school's
>"zero-tolerance" policy (not to be confused with the "zero-intelligence"
>policy).
>
>Fire investigators on Maui have determined the cause of a blaze that
>destroyed a $127,000 home last month - a short in the homeowner's newly
>installed fire prevention alarm system. "This is even worse than last
year,"
>said the distraught homeowner, "when someone broke in and stole my new
>security system."
>
>A man walked in to a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Shop, and asked for all the money
>in the cash drawer. Apparently the take was too small, so he tied up the
>store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police
>showed up and grabbed him.
>
>Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just
couldn't
>control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the
>lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man
>shouted, "that's not what I said!"
>
>A bank robber in Virginia Beach got a nasty surprise when a dye pack
>designed to mark stolen money exploded in his
>Fruit-of-the-Looms. The robber apparently stuffed the loot down the front
of
>his pants as he was running out the door. "He was seen hopping and jumping
>around," said police spokesman Mike Carey, "with an explosion taking place
>inside his pants." Police have the man's charred trousers in custody.
>
>A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her
>contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the
>doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!"
>
>In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a
>Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to
>simulate a gun, but unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his
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