September 13, 2009
VOL 26 NO 37
Advertise here
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Arts
  • Business
  • Property
  • Magazine
  • Archive
Home News | International | Letters | Editorial & Opinion  
  • CommentComment
  • PrintPrint
  • E-MailE-mail
Global eyes... The world is changing
  • 1
  • 2

Everyone, hands up! I've got a gun and Chartbusters card


In an embarrassing case of unmistakeable identity, police in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have identified a bank robber after he left his wallet behind at the teller counter. Suspect Lloyd Virgil Barclay made off with $800 but police traced him through photo ID. The 51-year-old passed a note to the teller claiming he had a gun. He then left the premises with his loot – but forgot to take his wallet with him.


Dutch police go from soaring high to crushing low


In an embarrassing case of mistaken identity, Dutch police admitted they mowed down what they thought were illegal marijuana plants only to find out they were part of an officially sanctioned research project by Wageningen University. Jubilant police had claimed the haul was worth over €5m on the streets.


No, not bored, just very, very drunk


A French grandmaster was check-mated on a technicality during a chess tournament in Kolkata, India. He was so drunk he fell asleep after just 11 moves.


Another headache for Christmas


Meet H1N1, the pink cuddly swine flu toy sold at the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta among a range of soft toys based on nasty diseases such as anthrax, gonorrhea, HIV, chlamydia and bed bugs.


September 6, 2009

Post a comment

(Required, published)
(Required, not published)
(Optional)

Comments are moderated by our editors, so there may be a delay between submission and publication of your comment. Offensive or abusive comments will not be published. Please note that your IP address (75.101.246.104) will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature. In submitting a comment to the site, you agree to be bound by our Terms and Conditions

Also in News

  • Popular
  • All
  1. EXCLUSIVE - O'Donoghue: five years in office, €550k in expenses
  2. Worker fired for 'job-cut message' gets €6,500 award
  3. Dear John Sorry, We're Still Following The Money
  4. Flats from hell the city council forgot
  5. Carroll case sums up all that was wrong in Ireland
  6. Garda sacked for doctoring drink-driving charge
  7. What price information? Costly search for records
  8. 81 Days To Save The Next Five Decades
  9. Ceann Comhairle wounds the body politic
  10. All part of the job: Department defends travel
  1. EXCLUSIVE - O'Donoghue: five years in office, €550k in expenses
  2. Flats from hell the city council forgot
  3. 81 Days To Save The Next Five Decades
  4. Carroll case sums up all that was wrong in Ireland
  5. A New Green NAMA?
  6. Nama bill will face further changes – Gormley
  7. Garda sacked for doctoring drink-driving charge
  8. It's Simon time again
  9. Kenny thumbs up for Tubridy's 'Late Late' debut
  10. 'Nobody ever said Eamon Dunphy was terrible': TV3 in chat-show comeback
  11. Dear John Sorry, We're Still Following The Money
  12. What price information? Costly search for records
  13. Docklands staff to be halved over money woes
  14. SF called on to break link with British Eurosceptics
  15. Sex attacker assaulted same bus user twice
  16. O'Driscoll wedding set for Lough Rynn
  17. Want to be rich, fulfilled and ready for the boom? Just look on the Black side
  18. Horse fair on its last legs
  19. Gardaí may yet charge solicitor's attacker
  20. Prisoners among first to receive swine flu vaccine to prevent further spread
  21. Finance questioning Údarás 'value' for money
  22. 'Why can't artists get the same tax relief as sports people'
  23. Ahern's wait for justice prevails – 25 years later
  24. Blood Donation
  25. Half of spending watchdog staff are not professionally qualified
  26. Public service early retirement deadline is extended after just 1,400 workers apply
  27. Lenihan to reveal 30% discount on value of Nama's toxic loans
  28. All part of the job: Department defends travel
  29. Diaspora forum to 'help rescue economy'
  30. Gardaí may sue over arrests
  31. Worker fired for 'job-cut message' gets €6,500 award
  32. Criminal gets €25K compensation for prison exposure to TB
  33. Irish scientist predicted flu outbreak
  34. Asylum seekers held for months
  35. 'Stigma still surrounds reporting of suicides' says ombudsman
  36. Local historian offers tour of Dublin villages
  37. Gardaí hunt bank kidnap gang
  38. Man charged with child sexual assault
  39. Saudi Arabia taking visa applications
  40. Dublin Fire Brigade attacked twice
  41. How The Bubbly Burst
  42. Love hurts as video game resurrects a karaoke Kurt Cobain
  43. Big screen heads for dystopian wasteland­
  44. Uganda king postpones trip following riots in Kampala
  45. Prosecutor defends Simpson conviction
  46. 'I was treated like a circus sideshow'
  47. Global eyes - The world is changing...
  48. Abortion protester shot at US high school
  49. Police search for Andy Warhol art thieves
  50. 'M*A*S*H' writer (81) dies of cancer
  51. China comes down hard on syringe attacks
  52. Shane Coleman - "Does there really have to be a serious accident or even a death before people come to their senses about the invasion of the Croke Park pitch?"
  53. Diarmuid Doyle - "The same ministers are asking us to vote for something about which they had reservations. The words 'sold' and 'pup' come irresistibly to mind"
  54. Virginia Ironside - "Men have often buttered me up with sex before suggesting some preposterous idea, like going away for a stag weekend"
  55. Ceann Comhairle wounds the body politic
  56. Michael Clifford - "John Devane has done well out of the law. Then last week, the law came calling for a small favour in return...."
  57. John Walsh - Trust me, there ain't nothing like the joy of glee
  58. Valerie Shanley's Hindsight Week
  59. A Thousand Words
  60. Said & Done
  61. Wipe the smile from under Willie O'Dea's moustache
  62. Spare us the spin, lies and innuendo on treaty vote
  63. Anti-depressant medicine predicated on bad science
  64. Lisbon? Let's have a referendum on pay
  65. Ali Bracken should be commended for exposé
  66. Too many in the GAA are guilty of ball watching
  67. Collins receives People of the Year award

Share this article

  • del.icio.usdel.icio.us
  • diggdigg
  • FacebookFacebook
  • GoogleGoogle

Search



This issue 5 years ago

  1. Revenue to target 19 NIB tax cheats
  2. Dispute leaves ATMs empty over bank holiday weekend
  3. An Post missed chance to save SDS
  4. Haugheys to get further ?20m plus interest for Abbeville
  5. Many reasons to be gay in Byrne clan

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

Subscribe to The Sunday Tribune’s RSS feeds. Learn more.

  • Latest Articles
  • News, Business, Sport or Arts

Advertise here
Click to create
  • Contact us
  • |
  • Terms & Conditions
  • |
  • Copyright Notice
Website by Maithú™
Searching