Outside a Wal-Mart in Geneseo, Ill., a 73-year-old woman buys a newspaper and suddenly finds herself trapped when the door of the news rack slips closed and catches her coat. Unable to wriggle out, she solicits a bystander to enter the Wal-Mart and ask for help. A Wal-Mart employee comes out to explain that she can't assist, citing a policy against tampering with the news rack.

After going back inside for a moment, the Wal-Mart employee comes out and tells the trapped woman that she'll call the newspaper and have a representative come to release her. The woman suggests an alternative solution: Somebody could simply put two quarters in the machine and open the door. The Wal-Mart employee rejects this out of hand, explaining that the store can't pay refunds for the news rack

Eventually the employee relents and puts two quarters in the machine. Later the liberated woman's daughter visits the store and gives the employee a $5 bill to be used strictly to finance future releases. A Wal-Mart corporate spokesperson apologizes for the incident, saying, "This is not how we do business."

Must have been "Take Your Child to Work Day"

JACKSON, Miss. — Caleb Laforrest Pete might consider hiring a babysitter next time he robs a bank.

Police say Pete, 41, brought along his 3-year-old son when he robbed a local bank, and the boy slowed him down so much he got caught.

Pete was arrested Sept. 3, shortly after he allegedly robbed a Community Bank branch. Authorities say Pete brought his son into the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money. After the teller placed an undisclosed amount of money in a duffel bag, Pete ran out, prodding his son to keep up, police said.

The boy, however, slowed him down long enough for passersby to notice him making his getaway in a waiting cab. Police caught him a short time later. His wife and a 5-month-old daughter also were in the car. The wife was not charged and neither was the 3-year-old.

The children are now in custody of the state human services. 

A recent JD Power survey of Initial Quality placed the Hummer H2 on the bottom of the list. The reason? After plunking down over $50K, Hummer owners were not happy with the behemoth's gas mileage of 11 mpg.  Were these owners thinking this 6,400 pound elephant was in the same class as the fuel efficient Honda Civic (32 city/38 hwy)??? 

BETTER CALL MAACO

Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home.
...with the chain still attached to the machine.
...with their bumper still attached to the chain
...with their vehicle's license plate still attached  to the bumper.

In an interview on Fox News, former undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson denied that he had raped Desiree Washington in 1991 but added he would like to rape her and her mother now.

A medical student doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center, received a call from a woman who was very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. The student quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she had given her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. The student told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.

Wow, six SUVs parked in a row. 

Is it a ski lodge in Vermont? A hunting camp in the Adirondacks? No, it's a condo in Florida.  

If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, was a crime committed?

Louisiana: A man walked into a Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer? Fifteen dollars.