A
thief was captured by a cop dressed as a giant banana. (This is the sort of story
that columnists like me dream of and pray for nightly, so thank you, God.)
A part-time police volunteer named Luke
Summerhayes was recently doing his day job, working at a supermarket in
Britain. As part of his duties, he was dressed as a giant banana. I've worked
at supermarkets, and this is not the worst of the jobs you have to do.
Suddenly the shoplifting alarm went off. Luke
did not have time to take off his costume, and just raced after the thief as he
was, flying across the shop in his two-meter-tall rig. The villain was
proceeding at a steady pace across the car park when the giant banana raced out
of nowhere and arrested him.
Luke told reporters afterwards: "He
looked pretty surprised." This line may put him in the running for
"Understatement of the Year."
The story was forwarded to me by reader Sunita
Chau, who said: "Observers must have been in `peels' of laughter, ha ha
ha."
Groanworthy puns aside, I can see this as the
beginning of a real-life superhero saga. But first, Luke needs some banana
powers. Perhaps he could have a banana-skin-firing gun that makes criminals
slip and fall.
Talking of crime, robbery victims are
defeating villains by simply ignoring them, according to items sent for my Dumb
Criminals File.
In one recent case, a would-be robber walked
into a bank and demanded cash. The teller said: "Sorry, this window is
closed."
The robber apologetically moved away to a
teller window that was actively serving customers. The second teller pointed
out that there was a queue, telling him he had to "wait in line" to
rob the bank.
In the queue, a customer scolded the man for
not lowering the hood of his hoodie indoors. The harassed villain gave up and
left the bank in the US city of Boston, the Boston Globe reported.
I recall a similar incident in Hong Kong. A
man stormed into a bank in Kowloon and announced he was robbing it. Staff
declined to empty the vaults, explaining that they were far too busy for that
kind of thing.
Last week in Holland, a masked man entered a
bar and leveled a gun at people inside. Too busy drinking and chatting, they
ignored him. It's on YouTube, including the deflated robber's sad exit. Moral
of these tales: You need personality to be a robber. It's not for everyone.
One more legal story: a US woman whose
children were taken from her by social workers demanded US$900 trillion
(HK$7.02 quadrillion) in compensation last week. Critics say the fact that
Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, thinks time with her children is worth all the money in
the world shows she is mentally unstable. I think it shows that her values are
right on target.
The Standard
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