WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
October 24, 2007 -- That's putting your weight to work.
A Wisconsin homeowner held a burglar he caught for cops by sitting on him until police arrived.
Jeffrey Stephens was awakened by his dog barking and found a 20-year-old man rifling through a neighbor's van.
They scuffled, and Stephens - who tips the scales at 200 pounds - sat on the man until cops arrived. Guess it was worth the weight.
Might be time to take up a new line of work.
A Kansas bank robber was busted for the second time after an employee recognized him from a previous gunpoint heist.
Dale Robertson, 54, walked into a bank and acted suspiciously, and the employee realized he was the same man who allegedly had robbed a nearby branch earlier this year.
A former California jailhouse guard was charged with having female inmates expose themselves in exchange for candy bars.
Steven Irysh, 23, would also bring notes from the female inmates to male inmates in San Luis Obispo, provided the women flashed him, authorities said.
He faces up to 18 months in jail.
A run-in with firefighters might make this little Harry Potter fan a little less obsessive.
Three-year-old Charlie Thomas, of Devon, England, had to be cut free when he put a traffic cone on his head so he could look more like the boy wizard.
"He was so pleased with himself. But when he couldn't get if off, it was a bit scary," said mom Louisa.
It took firefighters 30 minutes to cut the cone off Charlie's head.
There's living out your golden years together, but this is ridiculous.
A 106-year-old man in China married the 81-year-old woman who has been taking care of him for the past eight years.
"Now we are a family and we will never separate from each other until death," said happy hubby Pan Xiting.
They are among the oldest couples ever to marry. In 2002, a French couple married at ages 96 and 94.
