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Resort usually has checkouts, not check-ins

By TIMES WIRES
Published February 6, 2007

Nyree Thompson was eight months pregnant, but wanted to spend a quiet morning playing the penny slots at an Atlantic City casino on Saturday. Then she had what she thought were some indigestion pains, but less than 10 minutes later her son, Qualeem, was born right there on the casino floor. Mom and baby are doing fine, but resort officials took note of the historic significance of the event. "We've had people die here," said vice president Steve Callendar, "but we've never had people born here."

This time, the Wookie didn't win

Frederick Young, 44, was arrested last week in Los Angeles on a charge of misdemeanor battery. What made it interesting was that he was dressed as Chewbacca from the Star Wars movies at the time. (Above is the real Chewie. Not some impersonator.) He was working as a street performer in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre when tour operator Brian Sapir took exception to the way Young was treating some tourists. According to Sapir, Young then said, "Nobody tells this Wookie what to do," and head-butted him. So he was arrested. "The lesson here is: You can have the force with you. You just can't use illegal force," said police Lt. Paul Vernon, who has probably been waiting to use that line his whole career.

It's better to rob in nicer weather

Police in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, were responding to a call of an attempted robbery at McDonald's. When they got there, they saw the suspect, 21-year-old Adam Greene, running away from the store toward a nearby apartment complex. He didn't run very far, though, because it was really cold. Which made the parking lot really icy. Which made it really slippery. Greene slipped and smacked his head on a car bumper, according the KCCI-TV, making it way easier for the cops to catch him.

Pot deposit

The charges of possession of marijuana will be dropped against Adrian Hilton of Coralville, Iowa. Hilton was arrested in September after dropping his stash in a bank's night deposit box with proceeds from the pizza place where he works. There was a big problem with the case, Johnson County Attorney David Tiffany told the Iowa City Press-Citizen: "The bank teller gave the marijuana back to him, so we didn't have any evidence." No evidence, no case. There was no indication what Hilton did with the pot when he got it back, but police never found it.

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