Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Greetings fellow Bizarros:This story caught my eye not only because this joker apparently thinks he is in a Hollywood movie, but also because it happened not too far away from me out here in the burbs.
A wig-wearing man broke into a suburban Chicago bank vault and nearly made off with $100,000 but got stuck in an air duct and had to be cut out hours later.
Charles Estell, 38, was found early Sunday hiding in an air duct in an office next to the bank, according to Oak Lawn police spokesman Michael Kaufmann.
The Chicago man had allegedly robbed the suburban bank Saturday afternoon, and pointed a gun at bank employees who confronted him in the vault, according to the FBI.
"I don't want to kill or hurt you," Estell said, according to the criminal complaint. "I just want the money."
He allegedly stuffed $100,000 in a backpack and fled. Employees told authorities it appeared he escaped through the ceiling.
Authorities spent hours searching for him and located him around 1 a.m. Sunday. But before they could cut him loose from the air duct, they had to remove a wig of long, beaded dreadlocks he was wearing.
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*-- READER COMMENTS --*Do you suppose the cop who shot his wife in the posterior had a subconsious desire to do that? He might have still been angry about something with her.... Shelley
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I think he had a subconscious desire to drink a 12-pack of beer and play with his pistol. The rest is nature taking its course.]
The Bizarre Holidays are always fun to read. Thanks for the lift. -Mary
Parent birds routinely eject deformed babies from the nest, I suppose to protect the species. Also to fed the stray cats in the neighborhood. -John
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I wonder is that is the same reason my parents sent me out of the country when I was six-years-old.]
Just in case you havent seen this gem from the Ottawa Citizen: "Two Poles were detained Thursday after a corpse rolled up in a rug fell out of a sofa-bed that they were trying to load on a local commuter train, a police officer said. Witnesses said the two men were trying to get the furniture on-board a train headed for the nearby Polish Baltic Sea port of Gdansk, when a compartment containing the corpse flew open and the body fell out. Two suspects, aged 23 and 40, will remain in custody until Friday for questioning."
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I see they're still rolling corpses up in rugs in Poland. I guess they haven't advanced to chopping them up and putting them in trash bags.]
Some cop in Cleveland ticketing the guy who dropped the dollar bill does not surprise me. The last time I was there I took all kinds of abuse from the people and even a cop gave me crap. All I did was wear a Vikings shirt to a Browns game where The Vikes beat the Browns. If my doc ever tells me that if I don't go to the Cleveland Clinic I will die then my response will be "Here's how I want my memorial service". -Dave
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