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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties BUNGLED BURGARIES cont’d • Raymond Burles walked into a bank in France, demanded the cash, and stacked it neatly in a zippered case. When he laid his gun on top of the money and zipped the case closed, security officers nabbed him. 1. ASTRONOMY: What former planet in our solar • The cashier gave a bank robber in Oakland a bag full system was downgraded to a “dwarf planet” in 2006? of marked bills secretly rigged with an explosive 2. GEOGRAPHY: Where was Shakespeare’s Globe device that would detonate as soon as it passed Theater located? through the bank’s door. The robber soon regretted 3. LITERATURE: What was the name of the character stuffing the bag down the front of his trousers. in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” who had a • A bank robber in Oregon handed a note to the teller donkey’s head as a result of a spell? saying, “This is a holdup and I’ve got a gun. Put the 4. TELEVISION: What was the name of the agent money in a paper bag.” The cashier wrote back, “I played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on “The F.B.I.” series? haven’t got a paper bag.” The robber fled. 5. LANGUAGE: What five-letter word contains five personal pronouns? • Bruce Damon held up the Mutual Federal Savings 6. MYTHOLOGY: Who was the Greek goddess of the Bank in Brockton, Massachusetts. He stunned moon? tellers when he demanded that instead of cash, he 7. RELIGION: What is the first of the seven wanted them to write out a check. He was arrested sacraments in Christian theology? when he tried to deposit the check into his account 8. MOVIES: What was the home planet of Luke at another bank. Skywalker in “Star Wars”? • A bank robber in Los Angeles made off with over 9. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the Faroe Islands $5,000 but dropped his wallet containing all of located? his ID as he left the bank. Shortly afterwards, he 10. HISTORY: What type of gun was used to appeared at the police station. He was hoping if assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? he returned all the money the police would return his wallet and forget about the whole thing. They (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc. accepted the return of the money but refused to forget about the whole thing. • A bank robber in Brooklyn stuffed nearly half a million dollars in bills into two Hefty bags. The 15241 ST. RT. 160, Vinton, OH • Same Location Since 1985 bags were too heavy to carry so he dragged them Finis “Ike” Isaac, Auctioneer towards the door. When one of the bags split open Licensed & Bonded in the state of Ohio (License # 37289) and spilled all the money on the floor, he stopped AUCTION EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7:00 PM to collect it. That’s when security officers grabbed him. Complete Auction Services Outside Sales Available • Farm • Estate • Liquidation • Household • A bank robber in Tel Aviv in 1995 was foiled by Accepting Merchandise & Consignments a hard-of-hearing cashier, who could not hear Mon & Tues 10 am to Noon him whispering, “This is a hold-up.” He fled in 740-388-8741 embarrassment. (cont’d next page)
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UNUSUAL HOLD-UPS • In Charleston, South Carolina, a man handed a stick-up note to an ATM machine in front of a bank. When the machine didn’t come across with any cash, he shot it twice and drove off. He was later arrested. • A man decided to rob a bank’s outdoor night deposit box in West Virginia in 1980. He wrapped a chain around it and attached the other end to his bumper. When he took off, he expected the front door of the box to rip off. Instead, the night deposit box was left intact— and his rear bumper came off. He drove away, leaving the bumper behind him. Police arriving on the scene noted the license plate still attached to the bumper and arrested him in short order. • An armored car robbery in Arlington, Texas in 1991 occurred right next to a busload of Japanese tourists, who were all armed with cameras. Dozens of clear photos of the robber’s face and license plate were readily available to help police in the short, quick search for the culprit. • In 1990 James Richardson and Jeffrey Defalco tried to steal a safe weighing three tons. It wouldn’t fit in their car so they tied a chain around it and dragged it behind their car. It made an incredible noise and threw up a huge shower of sparks, which attracted the attention of many people. It also dented the pavement, leaving an easy-to-follow trail for the police. The safe was empty. GET-AWAY GOOFS • A bank robber in Riverhead, New York in 1979 was dismayed when he returned to his car with the cash to find the car would not start. Police found him hiding in a nearby tree. • Paul Benier robbed the Lafayette Cooperative Bank in Swansea, Massachusetts. When he rushed to the get-away car, he discovered he had locked the keys in the car.
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• Charles Darrow is remembered as the inventor of the game Monopoly, though that’s not quite the truth. In fact, Charles Darrow took a game that already existed, modified it, patented it, and marketed it. Because of his efforts, it eventually became the #1 selling game of all time. • Charles Darrow was a salesman in Philadelphia who sold heaters. After the stock market crash of 1929, he lost his job and supported himself with a number of odd jobs. • At the time, there were a number of board games making the rounds. One was called The Landlord’s Game, and another one was called The Fascinating Game of Finance. • Charles’ wife Esther was friends with a man named Charles Todd, who was a big fan of a similar sort of game, which used the streets of Atlantic City (where he vacationed) as the property titles. Todd taught the game to Esther, and Esther taught the game to her husband. • Charles Darrow thought there might be a way to make money off the game, so he and his wife and his son William set up a cottage industry manufacturing and selling the game. Charles carved tiny houses and hotels out of scrap wood, Esther hand-painted the property titles and the Chance and Community Chest cards, and William made the game boards out of circular pieces of oilcloth. Charles originally used charms from Esther’s charm bracelet as the game pieces. They called their version of the game Monopoly. • In 1933, Charles copyrighted the game in spite of the fact that he was not technically the inventor. Still, he sold plenty of copies to Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philadelphia, at $2.50 each. (Continued next page)
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Hall’s Farm Machinery Consignment Auction Saturday, March 14, 2015 3.0 Protect Your Mind from Depravity Do you watch those mystery documentaries where they take a crime and re-live it, then follow through to the capturing of the perpetrator, his/her trial and ultimate incarceration? We do. One especially gory episode we started to watch featured a variety of hideous acts that led to the brutal deaths of a whole family. Before the story got too far along I grabbed the remote control and shot it toward the TV with great vigor, pressing the OFF button. I turned to my wife, “I don’t think we need that kind of depravity to be described to us. It is polluting our minds and ruining our evening.” She agreed. The television is only one of a variety of convenient ways to pollute your mind these days. You can turn on some popular music. The lyrics of some popular songs are so vulgar they shock even the most liberal minded listeners. The “singers” glorify rape, murder, incest, homosexuality, bestiality and other perversions all in the name of art or freedom of speech or some other excuse to spread their polluting message. You can watch pornography. It is easily accessible in print, video and on the internet. Sometimes it pops up in front of you uninvited. Recently I was searching on the internet for some humor and came across a website that had cute little riddles, the kind children enjoy. As I scrolled through the pages some vile and explicit pornographic images appeared that had nothing to do with the riddles. There is a word for this kind of nasty mind
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Good News on Exercise This will be good news for some of us: We might not need as much exercise as we thought. Research from the UK seeks to aim senior women more toward moderate exercise. This smaller study was part of an ongoing long-term study of 1.1 million women going back to 1998. At that time they were asked about how many hours they spent at various activities, and their health has been followed since then. The results are promising for those of us who’d rather not run 5 miles a day or work out at the gym with weights. The women who reported moderate amounts of exercise ended up with significantly lower risks of cerebrovascular, venous thromboembolic or coronary heart disease events. In this case, “moderate” means doing something rather than nothing, enough activity to increase the heart rate or cause sweating two or three days a week. And we don’t need equipment or lots of time, contrary to previous studies that said we need to do 30 minutes of exercise five days a week. In this study, more frequent exercise didn’t mean lower risks -- there was little added benefit seen. One suggested doing some light gardening and then going for a walk. According to another study, even if we have limited mobility and are in our 80s, we still can benefit from a little physical activity. Slow walking and light housework count as physical activity and can have cardiovascular benefits. The idea is to reduce the time spend sitting and increase the time spent moving. For more information on moderate physical activity check the fact sheets at womenshealth.gov/publications. Search for physical activity. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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If you’ve been getting ready to file a paper benefit claim with the Department of Veterans Affairs, a deadline is looming that will force you to make a change. The VA has tried recently to go paperless, meaning that veterans open and fill out a claim online. It says that speeds things up. The effective date becomes the date the file is first opened electronically, with one year to finish the details. If you’ve wanted to stay with the old-school method and submit your claims via paper (even a letter or back of an envelope would suffice), you’ve been able to do that, with the effective date when your file is deemed complete. Starting March 24, though, the VA is limiting your options. You can file online, or you can complete one of two paper forms. Form 210966 will be required as your Intent to File. This is the first step while you gather the balance of your supporting information. Then use Form 21-526EZ for officially filing your claim. That’s it, period. If you don’t follow the new rules, your claim will languish and you’ll lose benefit time because nothing happens until you use the correct form, which is Form 21-0966. That one starts the clock running. And no, don’t expect the VA to send you the right form, at least not quickly. If don’t own or use a computer, find someone who will help you file your claim electronically. Or talk to your VSO, who ideally will have a stack of Intent to File forms already printed out. You might even get your library to pull up the form and print out a few for you. Just put Form 21-0966 in Google.
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1. Whitey Ford (236 victories) and Red Ruffing (231). 2. It was 1969. 3. Tom Dempsey (1970), Jason Elam (‘98), Sebastian Janikowski (2011) and David Akers (‘12). 4. It was 1993. 5. Sixteen players. 6. Thirteen, in 1998. 7. Jimmy Connors (1974, ‘76, ‘78, ‘82-’83), Pete Sampras (‘90, ‘93, ‘95-’96, 2002) and Roger Federer (‘04-’08).
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