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Arthur Bringe, 60, a Chicago nursing home resident, tried to rob a branch of the First Chicago bank in May on the same day a nearby police precinct got paid. He was arrested when the teller signaled a uniformed sergeant in her line that Bringe had handed her a holdup note.
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Michael Michell, 40, a prison escapee from Montana, was arrested in August while attending a Seattle Mariners game. He was in line at a souvenir stand right in front of Montana state prison warden Jack McCormick, who was attending the game while on vacation. McCormick later said: “He was real surprised to see me. I said, ‘Hi, Mike, how are you doing?’”
Last spring in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, Gladys Diehl and her husband filed a lawsuit against the Sealy mattress company and Hess’s department store, claiming that a 26-inch-long snake had been living inside they mattress they purchased. It was the couple’s second such mattress; after they felt “slithering” in the first one, they exchanged it for a second one, then felt slithering in that one, too. They took the second mattress to a testing laboratory, where the snake, by then dead, was discovered.
The Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union recently threatened a lawsuit against the Dallas County sheriff’s department over its policy of issuing underwear to male inmates but not to females. Currently, females can bring their own underwear to jail provided it is white and not “frilly,” and indigent females can apply for free underwear.
