Curses, Foiled Again
A sheriff's deputy tried to pull over Jerry Wayne Till for speeding outside Monroe, LA., but Till drove away. After leading deputies on a high-speed chase, Till abandoned his vehicle and ran into the woods. While deputies were searching for him, Till called the sheriff's office from his cell phone to report that he was lost. A nearby resident who heard Till crying for help guided deputies to him.
Friends Through Thick & Thin
Brendan Walsh, 27, pleaded guilty ina British court to repeatedly stabbing a long-lost friend, Noel Duff. The two had been close in school but lost touch until Walsh traced Duff using the Friends Reunited web site. After introducing his old friend to his sister, Walsh mistakenly believed that Duff had attacked her, prompting him to stab the man seven times in a drunken rage. Walsh immediately became full of remorse and called an ambulance. "The victim is no longer angry at you," Judge David Paget told Walsh, who was cleared of attempted murder, "and the remarkable fact is that [he] even gave evidence on your behalf and said he would like to be friends with you again.
Curses, Foiled Again
Authorities in White Plains, N.Y., charged Brian Calen, 48 with insurance fraud for collecting more than $1 million by claiming to have been blinded in the same eye four times. "How does a guy get blinded in the same eye again and again?" Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said, explaining that Calen had bought travelers insurance policies that required no medical exam but was found out after the fourth time, when an alert insurance investigator discovered prior claims.
Another Criminal Genius
After Army Spc. Marquise Roberts, a 23-year old combat veteran, told Philadelphia police he had been shot while walking past two men who were arguing in the street, detectives noted inconsistencies in his story. They found that Roberts' unit had been ordered to Iraq, so he had asked his wife's cousin to shoot him in the leg. "The investigation determined that he didn't want to go back to Iraq," Police Inspector William Colarulo said, "and staged the shooting to avoid having to return."
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