Thursday, December 2, 2004

Cunning Disguises

Yes, this is the second posting today.  There are several "reject" themes I
want to dispose of (John West posts), so there are going to be some days
where I do two posts.  Consider it a pre-Christmas clearance sale.  These
posts will generally not be as amusing (imo).

1. "Giant chicken holds up grocery store"
   <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138085,00.html>
"Police told the court that a man wearing a mask and a bright yellow chicken
 suit with orange chicken feet walked into the Kroger store just before
 midnight on Jan. 2"

2. "Businesses on the lookout for Frankenstein robber"
   <http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=2581992&nav=8H3xTJjn>
"Three times, in less than three weeks, a man in a Frankenstein mask has robbed
 or attempted to rob area businesses"

3. "Santa's sidekicks attempt Holland hold-up"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200311/s996973.htm>
"Two people dressed up as 'Black Pete' - a ubiquitous symbol of the Christmas
 season in the Netherlands - had queued patiently, but when their turn came one
 ducked behind the post office counter while the other waved 'something that
 looked like a weapon'"

4. "Man dressed as Darth Vader tries to rob pizza deliveryman"
   <http://www.wftv.com/news/3785486/detail.html>
"A man dressed up as Darth Vader used the infamous disguise to scare, and then
 try to rob, an unsuspecting pizza deliveryman over the weekend"

5. "'Elvis' and 'Belushi' arrested"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1137501.html>
"US police arrested an Elvis Presley impersonator and a Blues Brother lookalike
 following a bizarre evening in Michigan"

6. "Man disguised as gorilla snatches bananas from shop"
   <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/10/1060454080733.html>
"'I didn't realise that it was a gorilla at first. All I saw was something big
 and black with a lot of hair,' the South China Morning Post quoted her as
 saying. 'I thought I saw a ghost so I tried to drive it away with a broom.'"

7. "Monkey man robs milk bar"
   <http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/17/1084646104590.html>
"A man wearing a plastic monkey mask and armed with a steak knife robbed a milk
 bar in a suburb of Geelong yesterday"

8. "Serial robber uses pencil-drawn moustache as disguise"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_849816.html>
"The FBI are hunting a bank robber who's struck eight times this year with only
 a pencil-drawn moustache as a disguise"

(a John West post)