Truth

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP?

> >

> > AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months,

> > saying he "lacked

> > intellectual leadership." He received a $26 million

> > severance package.

> >

> > Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

> >

> > 2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS!

> >

> > Police in Oakland, California spent two hours

> > attempting to subdue a

> > gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home.

> >

> > After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers

> > discovered that the man was

> >

> > standing beside them, shouting "Please come out and

> > give yourself up".

> >

> > 3. WHAT WAS PLAN B???

> >

> > An Illinois man pretending to have a gun kidnapped a

> > motorist and

> > forced him to drive to two different automated

> > teller machines.

> >

> > The kidnapper then proceeded to withdraw money from

> > his own bank

> > accounts.

> >

> > 4. THE GETAWAY!

> >

> > A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop, and

> > asked for all the

> > money in the cash drawer.

> >

> > Apparently, the take was too small, so he

> > tied up the store clerk and worked the counter

> > himself for three hours

> > until police showed up and grabbed him.

> >

> > 5. DID I SAY THAT???

> >

> > Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery

> > suspect who just

> > couldn't control himself during a lineup.

> >

> > When detectives asked each

> > man in the lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all

> > your money or I'll

> > shoot," the man shouted, "That's not what I said!"

> >

> > 6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING??

> >

> > A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is

> > pregnant and her

> > contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this

> > her first child?"

> > the doctor asked.

> >

> > "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"

> >

> > 7. NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER!!

> >

> > In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for

> > trying to hold up

> > a Bank of America