'Geezer Bandit' sought in Calif. bank heists

HEADLINE: 'Geezer Bandit' sought in Calif. bank heists
SOURCE LINK: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34019893/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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SAN DIEGO - FBI officials say an elderly, thin, gray-haired man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" is responsible for holding up five San Diego-area banks since summer.

Investigators say the man appears to be in his 70s. Officials say that in the most recent robbery Monday, he approached a Bank of America teller in La Jolla, displayed a handgun and asked for cash. He fled on foot.

FBI spokesman Darrell Foxworth says investigators believe the man is also responsible for robbing four other San Diego County banks since Aug. 28.

HEADLINE: Granny jailed after career of crime
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26370654-23109,00.html
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AFTER a life of crime stretching back 53 years, a 70-year-old German woman was finally behind bars today after pickpocketing a woman 10 years her senior at the bus stop, police said.
The pensioner, not named by police, first came to the attention of authorities in December 1956 and during a prolific career of pilfering had 55 criminal cases brought against her, none of which resulted in a jail term.

Age did not seem to dampen her thieving zeal, however. She was charged 17 times this year alone for a series of petty robberies, including at the nursing home where she resides.

"It was especially dangerous when the 70-year-old had to go into hospital for treatment. During her stay, cash, wallets and medical equipment would regularly vanish from other patients' rooms," the police said.

HEADLINE: Arkansas Police Use Taser on 10-Year-Old Girl
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575494,00.html?test=latestnews
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OZARK, Ark. — Ozark Police Chief Jim Noggle says one of his officers used a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get the girl into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter.

Noggle said Tuesday that officer Dustin Bradshaw went to the girl's home after her mother called police woman called police.

According to a report filed by Bradshaw on Thursday, the officer found the girl on the floor of the house screaming and crying. She refused to follow her mother's instructions and the mother told Bradshaw to use his Taser.

HEADLINE: ‘Junk artist’ makes shoes out of computer parts
SOURCE LINK: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6920732.ece
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The artist Gabriel Dishaw spent three weeks working with waste material from old computers to re-create his favourite trainers as “junk art”.

The Nike sculpture is part of a series of shoes by the artist, from Carmel, Indiana, that revisits classic trainer silhouettes.

“I tried to create a complete piece, with both box and shoe,” said Mr Dishaw, who used circuit board parts to give the exact tread of the original trainer.