A would-be robber failed in his bid to raid a Japanese bank after asking staff for tips on how to carry out the crime, according to the Reuters news agency. And as he was escorted out of the branch in Kumagaya, north of Tokyo the man accidentally stabbed himself with the knife he was carrying….
Month: June 2006
Coma woman mix-up pains family
This family thought their daughter was in the hospital, while somebody else’s family was having her funeral, thinking it was their dead daughter… Sounds like a soap opera plot, but it’s real. The screw-up was noticed when the hospitalized woman started “saying and doing things that made us question whether or not she was Laura…”…
Update on Indonesia Quake
Today’s story is an update Today I am going to discuss the recent quake in Indonesia. On May 27 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the ancient city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. An initial estimate of 3000 casualties has more than doubled to 6234 as I write this. It will probably go up further. The news…