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THIS PAST summer, Cindy
Hartman, 26, startled a burglar
when, upon encountering him in
her Arkansas home, she dropped to
her knees and began to pray for
him.

The man apologized and called
to his partner outside, “We've got
to (give back) all of this. This is a
Christian home, We can’t do this.”
The two burglars brought back the
items they had stolen and even left
their gun with her.

Florida's Leesburg Daily
Commercial reported in December
on the response of shoplifting sus-
pect Darlene Oar, 25, when asked
for personal ID by Officer Scott
Gray at the station house.

When Gray asked Oar her color
of hair, Oar allegedly stood up,
pulled her pants down to her knees,
and asked, “Why don’t you look?”
Oar was warned she would face
additional charges if she continued
to expose herself.

Durham, North Carolina —
According ts convenience store
clerk Saundra Lewis, who was held
up by a man in February, the robber
almost could not stop apologizing.

The thief said he was sorry

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when he began the holdup, then
again when he rejected her plea to
think it over, then again just as he
fled. A few seconds after leaving,
he returned and said, “I’m sorry,
really, I'm sorry,” but nevertheless
kept the money.

By contrast, in March, the rob-
ber of a tobacco shop in Arizona,
not only returned the next night to
rob the clerk again but chastised
her for having been rude to him

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Reuters news service reported
last fall that a bank robbery in a
suburb of Sydney, Australia, was
thwarted when three men, aged 69,
70 and 85, pinned the 18-year-old
robber to the ground and held him
until police arrived.

Recent uses of food as a
weapon: Laurie Remillard was pelt-
ed with doughnuts in May in a
drive-by attack in Maine; Gary
Boyington, 23, was charged last
winter with a robbery in Kansas, in
which, though he claimed he had a
gun, he was armed only with a chili
dog he had just purchased;
McDonald’s restaurant employee
Greg Dean stopped a robber in
Oklahoma City in August by hitting
the man in the chest with a Quarter-
Pounder, startling him and causing
him to flee; Teresa Ann Johnson,
27, was arrested in North Carolina
in August and charged with tossing
a vat of hot crabs on the police offi-
cer who had come to break up a
fight at her home; film producer
Donald P. Borchers claimed in July
that one of his actors, Hunter Von

_ Leer, had hurled a bowl of green

Jell-O at him in Nevada, during a
break in making the movie, The
Stranger.

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CAROLE LEE (left) of Emily Murphy House accepts a cheque
for $10,000 from George Fee of A Christopher's Church.
Church members, including (back row, left to right) Stewart
Martin, San Given and Lou Rivers, raised the money through a
talent auction held at the church late last month.

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