Police in Altamonte Springs, Florida are investigation an unusual robbery where the suspect allowed the clerk to call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack. However, the robber, who also carried a handgun while looting the Kangaroo Express store on State Road 436, also took $30 and a few cigarettes.

Two inmates who held a guard for hostage in a smoke-free prison said they would go back to their cells if the officials presented them with tobacco. Howard Carlton, warden of the Northeast Correctional Complex said the two inmates Billy Grubb, 32, and Bradley Johnson, 25, attacked the guard Monday night and held him hostage for six hours.

As the saying goes, father knows best, but unfortunately not in every case. A Polish father has been questioned by police in Warsaw for allegedly giving his young sons lessons on how to drink and smoke. Mariusz Lechniak, 35, claims that he only wanted to teach his sons the lessons they needed in order to become real men, ranging from 2 years old to 8.

Thieves in New Jersey adopted a new way of breaking into a convenient store by running their car through the front window early Thursday. Duing their crash and grab they reportedly stole an ATM machine and cigarettes. According to the Star-Ledger of Newark, one suspect was arrested a short time later when the car flipped over during the police chase.

After receiving a large amount of non emergency calls, British police have requested people to call 999 only for dangerous emergency calls in dire situations. The decision came after police in England's West Midlands region had a called that complained of not hearing the television due to a car's noise outside. According to Sky News, the 999 calls - Britain's equivalent of 911 calls in the United States and Canada - is onstantly flooded with useless and time wasting calls.