Seattle cops were alerted to a counterfeiting ring and nabbed a prime suspect: a 12-year-old boy.
The sixth-grader used a relative’s computer to create 20 realistic-looking $1 bills and then gave a dozen of them to classmates, who passed them in the school cafeteria to buy food.
The trio got a stern lecture and were suspended for five days.
A Canadian woman has been arrested for ramming her 1985 BMW into a neighbor’s apartment in an apparent fight over a loud TV, police in British Columbia say.
The 36-year-old woman got so upset with her neighbor that she drove the car across a lawn and through patio furniture before hitting the side of the building.
A soleless shoe thief got less than he bargained for after discovering the dozen “pairs” he grabbed were actually only 24 left-foot singles.
The robber threw away the haul in disgust after breaking into a car in the Norwegian City of Bergen and finding a case of women’s footwear – which belonged to a salesman who traveled with only one of each type.
Catholic monks living on an island off the West Coast of Wales received a technology shock when they had to hurriedly fly in a satellite-TV dish to view the pope’s funeral.
Caldey Abbey is home to about 15 monks of the contemplative Cistercian order, which follows a strict routine of prayer, work throughout the day and nightly vows of silence.
They had no idea they could receive signals directly from satellites 23,000 miles above the earth.
An Alabama woman with a history of writing bad checks has been charged with stiffing the Girl Scouts for $4,848 in cookies.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Department charged Doris LeAnn Taylor, 33, with one count of theft by deception.
Taylor, a Girl Scout “cookie mom,” is accused of ordering 3,020 boxes and then failing to return either money or cookies to the Scouts’ distributor.
Cookie moms are mothers who take responsibility for supervising sales.