A British pensioner trying to withdraw cash from her savings account was denied access to it on the grounds that she was dead. Mary Welsby, 77, arrived at the bank wondering why her monthly statements had stopped coming. While there, she decided to withdraw some money and showed the clerk ID and waited.

A police officer saved a post office from an armed robbery on May 20th in Cairo, a local Egyptian newspaper reported. The assault happened during the period of the month when retirement checks are sent out. Many seniors were waiting for their checks when a woman started a fight and three other men and a woman joined her, calming to be her family members. Two of them tried to sneak into the post office employee's desks when a police officer noticed the thieves and closed the gates from within, cornering the culprits inside.

For James Taylor, a man accused of robbing a bank in central Florida, beer was more important than his freedom. Taylor, who robbed the Bank of America branch in east Orange County, Florida simply changed clothes in a van and went to a nearby pizzeria for a cold beer. The Orlando Sentinel said Tuesday Taylor was recognized by an unidentified bank customer as the man who robbed her. He then apparently change clothes inside the van and relaxed.

When a drunk German man, identified only as Wolfgang H, found no parking place for his horse, he used a bank's automatic teller machine for that purpose. The horse's owner apparently drank a bit too the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer. Talking to the Bild newspaper, the 40-year-old machinist said he had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin.

Randy Thornton's swimming adventure earlier this month was skewed after one of his fellow swimmers, a humpback whale, flipped its tail. The 50-year-old diver had to be hospitalized for a broken femur at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center in Sandy. The incident happened on March 1 during an excursion trip in the Dominican Republic. Thornton and 17 other divers were on the last dive of the last day of their weeklong trip to the reefs called the Silver Banks, an area where divers are allowed to swim with humpback whales.