Robbing a bank is as simple as putting pen to paper. Here are actual demand notes used in successful and unsuccessful unarmed bank robberies – – accompanied by a photo of each robber and appended with details about the robbery itself.
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey prisoner has won a settlement that allows him to preach at services inside the prison.
Howard Thompson Jr. is an inmate at the New Jersey State Prison and an ordained Pentecostal minister. He had been conducting weekly worship services until prison officials issued a 2007 ban on inmate preaching.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on his behalf seeking to lift the ban on the grounds it restricted his religious freedom.
The settlement applies only to Thompson. The 45-year-old is serving a sentence of 30 years to life for felony murder and robbery.
Who cares if it’s in Spanish?
An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain so that his neighbours could reach nearby fields and he could park his truck outside his home.
Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in eastern Bihar state, carved a 10m-long, 4m-wide tunnel through the hill range from his village of Kewati. Das took up the Herculean task after villagers found the 7km trek over the mountain increasingly arduous.
When the authorities refused to help to cut the journey time, Das began carving his way through the earth in the direction of the nearest big town, Atri. The job became more pressing when Das became the first man to own a truck in the village and was unable to drive it to his home.