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Bizarre Criminals In September 1992, robbers in Las Vegas held up a van thought to contain gambling chips, only to find that it was carrying potato chips instead. In 1998, a guard was caught smuggling a wad of money in his underpants out of a bank in Atlanta when a tiny security-dye capsule exploded, blowing a hole in his trousers. In 1998, a would-be Texas grocery store robber went to the trouble of disguising his face with a balaclava but forgot to remove from his breast pocket a laminated badge which bore his name, place of employment and position within the company an oversight spotted by at least a dozen witnesses. A 1975 raid on the Royal Bank of Scotland in Rothesay degen- erated into farce when, on the way in, the three would-be raiders got stuck in the bank's revolving doors and had to be helped free by the staff. Undeterred, they returned a few minutes later and announced that it was a robbery. The staff thought it was a practical joke and refused to pay up. While one of the men vaulted the counter and twisted his ankle on landing, the other two made their escape, only to get trapped in the revolving doors again. Norwegian palace put up on eBay OSLO, Norway - The Norwegian Royal Palace in Oslo went on the auction block this week for a brief time until it was pulled off eBay early Thursday as a hoax. The last bid received for the stately pile in the center of the capital city was $99,999.99, the newspaper Aftenposten reported. The posting on the auction site said that the palace could be moved to another country and that it was royals not included -- although it suggested that King Harald V and his family would want to stay with their house. Sven Gjeruldsen, a spokesman for the royal family, told the newspaper VG that he was unaware of the auction and had no comment. King Harald, whose grandfather, King Haakon VII, was a Danish prince chosen king of Norway in 1905 in a national referendum, celebrated his 70th birthday last month. The palace was built in the early 19th century as the Oslo residence of the king of Sweden, which then ruled Norway. ------ Day at ballgame clears murder suspect LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man with a good-as-gold TV alibi has been awarded $320,000 in a wrong-man murder charge. Juan Catalan, 28, who spent five months in jail in the 2003 slaying of a 16-year-old Sun Valley girl, sued the L.A. City Council for police misconduct after his attorney produced irrefutable evidence he couldn't have done it. Catalan had insisted he was innocent and that he was at a L.A. Dodgers game with his 6-year-old daughter at the time. Unable to find any trace of him in the game tape, attorney Todd Melnik learned the HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had been shooting at the ball park that day. There, among the discarded, unused tape was Castalan eating a hot dog in the background. Catalan was not a fan of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" before his time in jail, attorney Gary Casselman said. "He is now." Delma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
