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Maine flower shop break-in was a stunt gone wrong

PORTLAND, Maine

A Maine man who authorities originally said fell to the sidewalk while rappelling down a fire escape after breaking into a Portland flower shop was actually part of a stunt that had gone awry.

Ronald Podlaski told the Portland Press Herald on Monday he was trying to surprise a friend Saturday by sneaking up the fire escape and climbing in her apartment window. The 29-year-old Podlaski, an artist who uses the name RookSye, says he got the wrong building and ended up in the florist.

He says he fell from a third-floor window after realizing his mistake and tripping the alarm. He suffered minor injuries.

He says he’d been drinking beer and what he did was “foolish.”

Authorities have decided not to charge him. But he plans to apologize to the florist.

Bad first date: Woman takes Oregon man’s wallet

WILSONVILLE, Ore.

Oregon police agree it was a bad first date.

They say a 23-year-old man met a woman for the first time in person after they talked online.

She hopped into his vehicle at a drive-through restaurant in Wilsonville, south of Portland, and suggested he buy her a milkshake.

Sgt. Dan Kraus says the man got two $1 bills in change and put them into his wallet, which he left on the center console. Kraus says the woman grabbed the wallet, got out of the car and ran off.

The Oregonian reports the man called 911 and provided the woman’s cellphone number. Officers called her to arrange a meeting at the same restaurant.

They arrested her and recovered the wallet — with the two $1 bills still inside.

Woman finds intruder snacking on cookie dough

WICHITA, Kan.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after a Wichita woman found him eating cookie dough from her freezer in the early-morning hours.

The Wichita Eagle reports the woman came out of her bedroom shortly before 3:30 a.m. and found the stranger in her kitchen.

Wichita police spokesman Lt. James Espinoza says the man told police he thought he was at his aunt’s house and was hungry.

Police say the man entered the home through an unlocked back door. The 52-year-old woman who lives there was not hurt.

The intruder, who hasn’t been formally charged, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.

Associated Press