n average worker wastes almost one year of his or her working life puffing away on cigarettes, a new poll revealed. Three 15-minute smoking breaks a day cost employers 195 working hours a year for each worker. That is equivalent to 8,677 hours in an average 44-year working lifetime or simply put, nearly a whole year smoking instead of working.

A man robbing a local store accidentally fired a shot into his groin Tuesday, according to police reports. The shot was fired as the robber was attempting to slide the gun into his waistband. Derrick Kosch, 25, held up the Village Pantry Store demanding cash and cigarettes, a female clerk reported to police. She was filling up the white bag that Kosch handed her when she heard a shot.

Brian Rush, 28, did not like the discipline of the seminary but he loved the perks of a priest. Rush, who quit the seminary after a month in 2006, dressed in black, wore a cross and a white strip of cardboard on his neck and went shopping at a local grocery store in Pittston.

A man disguised as a priest was arrested by police for checking out groceries, and then claiming that the bill was to be charged to the St. Rocco's Catholic Church, which actually had a tab at the supermarket. Police officials said that Brian Rush, who claimed that he intended to give help to the poor, scammed the supermarket Gerrity's out of $98 on Tuesday.

A man was arrested by police after a bank teller in South Carolina caught him trying to open a bank account with a fake $1 million bill. Alexander D. Smith, 31, simply walked up to the teller and asked for a new account, presenting the $1 million bill. When the bank teller refused to open the account and called the police, Smith reportedly started cursing the bank workers.