Bizarre News - May 13, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

You don't have to be a hardened criminal to know that robbing a bank is risky and dangerous. Even once. If you do it twice you're really pushing your luck. If you do it three times you probably have delusions of being Jesse James. If you do it three times in 30 minutes you're probably this woman.

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies arrested a 50-year-old woman, charging her with robbing three Brandon banks in a span of 30 minutes earlier in the day.

The spree started at 3:19 p.m. and ended at 3:43 p.m., deputies said. Cindy Carabeo was charged with three counts of armed robbery.

Deputies said a female robber first entered the BB&T bank and handed a written note to a teller saying she had a firearm and wanted cash. She was given an undisclosed amount of money before fleeing the building.

Sixteen minutes later, the same robber walked into the Wells Fargo bank and repeated the same tactic. She was given an undisclosed amount of cash and fled.

Eight minutes after that, the same woman entered the Florida Central Credit Union and again handed the note to the teller saying she was armed and wanted money. Again, she walked out of the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Soon afterward, sheriff's detectives pieced together enough information to identify the getaway car's tag number and found it to be registered to Carabeo. Deputies converged on her apartment and arrested her as she drove into the complex.

The funny part is that if she had quit after two banks she probably would have gotten away with it.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Man sneezes out rubber end of childhood toy dart after four decades --*
CAMBERLEY, England (UPI) - An English man says a piece of a rubber toy that was lost 40 years ago came out of his nose during a sneezing fit. Steve Easton, 51, claims he was playing an Internet game at his home in Camberley when a sneezing fit prompted the emergence of the object from his nostril. Unsure of what he had found, Easton called his mother, 77-year-old Pat Easton, who told him what the object was -- the end sucker piece on a toy rubber dart. Pat Easton said she had decades previously taken Steve, then 7 or 8 years old, to the hospital after he swallowed the toy, but X-rays were inconclusive. "All these years later, it suddenly shot out," she told the BBC. Steve Easton said his ability to breathe and blow his nose feels no different from before. "It's the length of time," he told the BBC. "I'm not the first person this has happened to, but 43 years -- it's quite out there isn't it?" Easton said he carried the object around to show people who were interested in the story, but he has since disposed of it. In a somewhat similar episode in 2011, a man who was shot in the head during New Year's Eve festivities in Naples, Italy, sneezed out a .22 caliber bullet as he waited to be seen by doctors.


*-- Cremation simulation: Theme park in China offers 'death ride' --*
SHENZHEN, China (UPI) - Forget about thrill rides. How about a shrill ride? The Window of the World theme park in China has a new attraction that some are just dying to ride. It's called Samadhi, and it's designed to give riders the sensation of being dead, cremated, and reborn. First, the visitor goes on a journey through a "morgue." Next, they are placed in a casket and put on a conveyor belt for "cremation" -- which is simulated by a sudden blast of hot air over the rider to simulate flames. The air reaches temperatures up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The attraction also uses flashes of light to give the rider "an authentic experience of burning." Finally, an image of a womb is projected onto the ceiling and riders must crawl until they reach a white, padded room -- where they are "reborn." Sound fun? The ride's creators went to great lengths to make the experience as accurate as possible by visiting a real crematorium and lying inside the incinerator. Window of the World is a cultural theme park instead of a regular amusement park. Other attractions featured there include replicas of France's Eiffel Tower and its Arc de Triomphe. When many riders reach the end of the experience they are said to be drenched in sweat. Whether that's a result of the heat -- or being scared to death, is uncertain.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
I'm 77 years old and viagra no longer works. Please, please get me the name of that liquid. Better yet, where can I buy it? I'll pay anything. PS: I'm quite serious.
[Try South Africa.]

Uh, how much is a plane ticket to South Africa?

Hey Lewis! If Sylvia Driskell of Nebraska is successful with her lawsuit against all homosexuals on behalf of "God" and "his son, Jesus Christ" then I'd like to sue all Chicago cubs fans for their senseless behavior which is offensive to the sanctity of those of us in Chicago who are White Sox fans. -R.S.

The Nebraska woman that is trying to sue homosexuals on behalf of God...while she's at it, she should sue all the people who lie, or steal, or take the Lord's name in vain, or have pre-marital sex, or don't go to church on Sunday, or anything else that is considered a sin? Unless she can get God to appear in court to testify on her behalf, I don't think she's going to get very far. -Chris
[Haven't you ever seen that movie "Oh, God" with John Denver and George Burns?]

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