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Dateline Florida
By TIMES WIRES
Published March 8, 2007
A FASHION FELONY CAN A DISGUISE BE SO TACKY THAT AN ARMED ROBBER GETS NO RESPECT? MAYBE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED FEB. 28 WHEN A MAN TRIED TO ROB A BRANDON MCDONALD'S WHILE IN CRUISE ATTIRE: OVERSIZED SUNGLASSES, A TACKY GREEN SWEATER AND A WIDE-BRIMMED STRAW HAT. HE LINGERED AT THE BLOOMINGDALE AVENUE RESTAURANT FOR AN HOUR UNTIL A MANAGER APPROACHED HIM. THE ROBBER SHOWED THE GUN AND DEMANDED MONEY, DEPUTIES SAID. THE MANAGER REFUSED AND THE ROBBER RAN. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE RELEASED HIS PHOTO WEDNESDAY AND ASKED ANYONE WITH INFORMATION TO CALL (813) 247-8200. AND WHEN THEY'RE DONE, THE FASHION POLICE WANT HIM, TOO. NASA fires astronaut Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for a space shuttle pilot. Nowak, a Navy captain, will join the staff of the chief of naval air training in Corpus Christi, Texas, starting in two weeks. It was the first time NASA has publicly fired an astronaut. Nowak, a mother of three, is accused of confronting Colleen Shipman, the woman who had become Bill Oefelein's girlfriend, at the Orlando airport after driving from Houston wearing an astronaut diaper so that she would not have to stop for a bathroom during her 900-mile trip.
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