Wednesday, December 24, 2014
ODDLY ENOUGH
Mystery man hands out $100 bills in Massachusetts
BARNSTABLE, Mass.
A generous mystery man has made the holiday season a little brighter for employees of two Massachusetts coffee shops.
A man wearing a cowboy hat walked into Marylou’s in Hyannis on Dec. 13 and handed the worker behind the counter 15 envelopes, each containing a crisp $100 bill.
Manager Victoria Grandy tells the Cape Cod Times that “MERRY CHRISTMAS” was printed in red on the front of each envelope.
Workers didn’t recognize the man as a regular, but one employee said he resembled Santa Claus.
A man, believed to be the same person, but this time wearing a ball cap, on Dec. 15 handed over eight envelopes containing $100 bills to the workers at the Dunkin’ Donuts at the Cape Cod Mall.
Those employees also didn’t recognize him as a regular.
NC man bounces checks for $58K in postage stamps
NORFOLK, Va.
Perhaps Javorick Alexander Moore has a really long Christmas-card list. Or a lot of pen pals.
The 40-year-old Greensboro, N.C., man was sentenced Dec. 11 to two years in prison for bank fraud after writing more than $58,000 in bad checks for postage stamps.
Documents filed in federal court in Norfolk, Va., say Moore opened a checking account and deposited about $5,000 before visiting several post offices in Virginia and North Carolina to stockpile stamps. He also spent about $5,000 at office-supply and clothing stores.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, defense attorney Suzanne Katchmar wrote in court papers that her client was abused as a child, loves to cook and hopes to someday operate a food truck. But she said nothing about his interest in stamps.
Would-be carjackers fail; they weren’t able to drive stick shift
OCALA, Fla.
Police in Florida say two would-be carjackers almost got away with a vehicle in Ocala but didn’t know how to drive a stick shift.
The Ocala Star-Banner reported that the owner of a 2014 Toyota Corolla told police he was sitting in his car talking on his cellphone when a man with a gun tapped the window. Another man was by the passenger-side window. Police say the gunman demanded the man get out of the car and demanded his keys. He gave them the keys, they got in the car and he walked away. The man stopped another motorist who called police.
But the carjackers couldn’t move the car because it was a stick shift. The duo ran before police arrived, leaving the keys in the ignition.
Associated Press