Six Flags Great America is offering visitors of its Halloween-themed FrightFest a chance to get out of waiting in long lines to get on rides. From October 7 through October 29, customers who eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach get unlimited line-jumping privileges. Those who eat the 2- to 3- inch roach still have to pay admission fees, but after the feat is accomplished, cockroach eaters, along with four other friends or family members, get to cut to the front of the lines.

In an industry first, a top-level fashion show in Madrid has banned models who are too thin. The move has resulted in a furor among modeling agencies and increased the possibility of restrictions in other venues. Madrid's fashion week responded to protests that young women were aspiring to copy the models' rail-thin looks and adopting eating disorders by rejecting underweight models.

The Chicago police have arrested a 79-year-old woman after she attempted to hold up a bank using a toy gun. She could be the oldest person to be charged with attempted bank robbery in the city's history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the woman entered a Bank of America branch in Chicago, Illinois wearing a white visor that read "princess" and black sunglasses and told a lady cashier to come closer saying she could not speak very loud having had just come from the dentist.

A 79-year-old woman using a toy gun and wearing a visor that read "Princess" has been charged with attempted bank robbery. Melvena Cooke was set free on a $4,500 bond and is in her daughter's custody.

Wannabe newlyweds who want to get married late at night can no longer go to the county's marriage-license office in Las Vegas. The city that calls itself "the wedding capital of the world" is closing the office from midnight to 8 a. m. While most of America is asleep during these hours, partiers in Vegas are very much awake.