They obviously didn’t budget for eternity.
Shocked city leaders in Bullhead City, Ariz., doused an eternal flame at a veterans memorial after a month because the gas bill was too high.
The Medal of Honor Memorial was re-lit last week after veterans groups went on the warpath.
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A well-mannered robber was caught after he walked into an Ohio bank wearing a ski mask and patiently waited his turn.
The bandit stood in line behind several customers before pointing a toy gun at a teller and demanding cash.
Cops arrested him seconds later.
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Being put on hold proved lucrative for an upstate man.
A furious customer sick of being given the runaround by his phone company tallied up the minutes he’d spent on hold – and sent in a bill.
Albany-area p.r. executive Howard Schaffer says One Communications has agreed to pay his $5,481.16 invoice.
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This must be Germany’s version of the Keystone Kops.
Bungling police officers responding to a liquor-store robbery in Berlin let the crooks escape – and arrested each other.
Plainclothes cops first on the scene were wrestled to the ground and arrested when their uniformed colleagues arrived minutes later.
“When the plainclothes guys tried to tell them who they were, the uniformed police told them to keep quiet,” said the store manager.
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“Witnesses” are convinced that men from Mars visited an English wind farm, smashing a 65-foot blade off a turbine as they flew past in their UFO.
One man reported seeing “a massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground.”