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By Times Wires
Published September 1, 2007

Whoops, My Bad

Burglar returns to scene of crime, to apologize

A burglar broke into Graeme Glass' home in Queenstown, New Zealand, on Tuesday, taking a computer, a camera and his wallet. That wasn't so unusual, but what was weird is that later in the day, he broke back into the house and returned everything. Plus a basketball and two pairs of gloves he bought with a credit card in the stolen wallet. He also left a note apologizing for "violating the safety and security of your home," and vowed to come back with money to replace the window he broke to get in as soon as he could get it. "I have never written truer words when I say that I wish that I had never done this to you and your family," the note said.

Blizzard babies

Colorado is more pregnant than ever

Remember the blizzards in Colorado late last December? The state was paralyzed for weeks. Well, maybe not paralyzed. Denver's KMGH-TV reports that there is an overabundance of women in the area who are ... let's see, January, February, March ... about 7-8 months pregnant right now. "It's going to be busy at the end of September and early October," said Dr. Steve Grover of the Sky Ridge Medical Center, where they are predicting a 20 percent increase in births for October. And Linde Schlumbohm, owner of a children's boutique called Studio Bini, says her sales are up. "I'm completely wiped out of blankets. I can't keep up with the blankets," she said. "I probably would have bought more infant things if I had thought about it."

Status reports

Lisa is alive

Lisa Kohlhagen of Colbert, Ga., wasn't feeling well, but it was mainly just her knee, which she hurt during basic training for the Army, leading to her discharge. But when Veteran's Affairs told her she had died, that was news to her, according to WSB-TV in Atlanta. Kohlhagen called the VA to find out why her monthly disability checks stopped coming and was told it was because she was dead. "I said, 'No, I'm not dead.' And they kept trying to tell me I was dead but I'm not," said Kohlhagen. "I was really upset." But not at all dead. She has convinced the VA that she is, in fact, alive, but the checks have not started coming again yet.

Ivan is dead

Ivan Bosanac has been missing since February 1999. According to Reuters, police in Zagreb, Croatia, conducted a brief search at the time, but couldn't find him. Thing is, they didn't look too closely in his disaster of an apartment. "The flat was full of garbage, literally up to the roof," Bosanac's nephew, Drazen Bosanac, told the Jutarnji List. Eight years later, a neighbor finally decided to go clean up the small attic flat to find the source of a bad smell. You know where this is going. "I put my gloves on and, after digging through the rubble for an hour, I found the body, bare bones covered in a winter coat," the neighbor, Sasa Mersinjak, said.

Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at jwebster@sptimes.com.

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