A hoaxer has been found guilty of wasting police time after claiming he lost a daughter in the Asian tsunami, according to BBC news. Philip Bosson, 39, told officers his former wife called him to say their daughter Kayleigh had been killed.

In a stunning display of sweet irony and lack of common sense, David Mulligan, 21, served 25 days for drunken driving, and was released at 7 a. m. Tuesday, only to steal a van three minutes later. A man who lives one block away from the Lemon Creek Correctional Center left his 1997 Dodge van running to warm up. He came out of his house to discover it had been nicked.

wo adolescent boys and one teenager are accused of strangling an 80-year-old woman to death during a burglary, according to Greek officials. The woman, who lived alone on the island of Salamina, near the coast of Athens, was discovered dead shortly thereafter the burglary by relatives. They initially thought she had died of natural causes but called police after realizing the house had been burgled.

The Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper says that private recovery was more effective than official results. They quoted the case of a Mercedes stolen at gunpoint this month from a parking lot in Tirana. The owner of the parking lot called friends around the country and they began tracking the stolen vehicle. Three cars saw the vehicle and a group of people set up a private roadblock. When the thieves came upon it, they stopped the car and ran.

Taking the cell phone craze to a whole new level, a woman was accused Friday of robbing four banks in suburbs around the District of Columbia - while talking on her cell phone. Authorities say the woman, casually dressed with dark sunglasses and cellular phone to her ear, walked up to the tell counter at each of the banks, showed the teller a handgun hidden in her purse and demanded money.