oddly enough

oddly enough

Men hold up doughnut shop, get dough

HYANNIS, Mass.

Police say masked and armed men in Cape Cod thought they were nabbing a bag of dough. They did — just not the kind they wanted.

Three Hyannis men are facing armed-robbery-while-masked charges after police say they robbed a Dunkin’ Donuts with knives and a hatchet and only ended up with a bag of doughnuts.

According to police, the men demanded a paper bag that was in one of the workers’ purses, mistakenly believing she was carrying cash from the day’s receipts. But police say the men never looked inside.

The men were captured on video, and police were able to track them down. Arrested were 19-year-old Nicholas Mercurio, 21-year-old Lukas Peterson and 20-year-old Charles Iliffe.

W. Pa. man tried to drop toilet on trooper

BESSEMER, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges he threatened to drop a 100-pound toilet onto a state trooper responding to a disorderly conduct call.

Trooper Joseph Vascetti tells The Associated Press that another trooper encountered 33-year-old Steven Herman after neighbors complained Wednesday night that the man was being loud and throwing objects onto his driveway in Bessemer, about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Vascetti says Herman hid in an open attic where he perched the ceramic toilet on a ledge threatened to push it onto the trooper if he came closer.

The trooper eventually got past that hazard and subdued Herman with a stun gun, but not before the suspect allegedly threatened the trooper with a stick and a whiskey bottle.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Herman, who faces a preliminary hearing Thursday.

Angry crows dive-bomb officers

EVERETT, Wash.

Police in Everett, Wash., have found themselves in a flap with some unusual suspects: an angry flock of birds.

Crows have been attacking officers in the parking lot of the Everett Police Department’s north precinct station. They’ve been swooping down and dive-bombing the officers as they walk to and from their cars.

Lt. Bob Johns says he recently was flanked by the aggressive birds and “got zinged.” He says, “They’re like velociraptors.”

The Daily Herald reports one officer tried to use his siren to scare away the crows. The birds responded by decorating his car with droppings.

State Fish and Wildlife Department biologist Ruth Milner says the birds are simply protecting baby crows that have been kicked out of the nest and are learning to fly. She says adult crows are quite protective of their young.

Associated Press