[Xantar]

Ok. One last hurrah before I leave.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Police in Silver Spring, Maryland, can thank a forgetful robber for some good evidence: his picture.

Officers say the bandit robbed a camera store after asking for a passport picture. When the clerk opened the register, the suspect drew a gun and demanded money.

While he got away with some cash and the photo, police say he forgot about the negative. Detectives have made new prints and are distributing the photo to the media.

Kentucky
Two men tried to pull the front off an ATM by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the panel
off the machine, however, they pulled the bumper off the truck. Scared, they left the scene of the crime. Their bumper, along with their license
plate was still attached to the ATM.

Kidnappers abducted Gildo Santos near his factory in a suburb of Sao Paulo and demanded $690,000 for ransom. Santos, however, escaped. The next day, Santos got a phone call asking for $11,500 to defray the cost of the abduction. After negotiating a 50 percent reduction, Santos called police, when the abductors showed up to collect payment.

Arizona
A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies and other events. One day, a middle-aged woman called to inquire if they could kill her husband. She was sentenced to four and a half years.

Three criminals, being transported to a different jail, made a dash for freedom as they were unloaded from the back of the Sheriff's van. The three were all on one long chain that connected at the wrists. They only got about 10 feet, though. As they ran down the sidewalk, they tried to go in different directions around a telephone pole. The only trouble the police had with the capture was untangling them from each other and the pole.

Two brilliant criminal masterminds were attempting to break into a safe to get at whatever goodies might be hiding inside. After failing to pick the lock, they decided that they would blast it open with dynamite (they just happened to have some with them). Upon detonating the dynamite most of the room in which the safe was located was destroyed. The safe, however, stood fast. The brilliant gangsters then decided to shove the safe out of the window, as they were on the second floor, and this would surely break the safe open to expose it's contents. This too, failed. Sherlock and Watson then decided to run a chain from the safe to the back of their pickup, and drag it away to someplace where they would have more time to dissect it. As they headed down the road at a rapid pace with their booty in tow, they came upon a traffic light, which turned red just as they were approaching the intersection. They had to stop quickly, and luckily, their pickup had good brakes. The safe, however, did not. It promptly rammed the rear of the truck, lifting the back off the ground and lodging it self underneath. This pretty well brought this little heist to a close.