Bank thief by mistake Hails Cop After Heist

Bank Robber Mistakenly Hails Cop after Heist

A bank thief chose the incorrect way to make an escape from the scene of his crime - fortuitousl hailing a ride from an in secret cop. Skip related content

Having looted a Michigan bank on Wednesday, parolee Mark E White flagged down a passing vehicle a few blocks away.

The driver turned out to be local Saginaw Township detective Scott Jackson, who immediately arrested the would-be escapee.

The hapless con was slapped with charges that include bank robbery and making a false bomb threat.

He is now being held at the Saginaw County Jail on a $755,000 (£465,600) bail.

The attempted bank job came a matter of weeks after White had been freed on parole.

He was free from jail on June 16 after portion time for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and - properly - violating a former parole.

A lot of hot air comes out of the Houses of Parliament, scientists have proved.

Parliament produces lots of hot air

The building loses more heat than Buckingham Palace, the Reichstag, Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, costing the taxpayer £7,191 a year in wasted energy, new technology has exposed.

Scientists worked out the loss using infra red image study, which provides quantified C02 loss and heat loss through thermal image.

In contrast with Parliament, the Welsh Assembly leaks just £95.98 a year, researchers from IRT Energy said. Buckingham Palace loses £1,038, the Reichstag loses £599.25, while the Scottish Parliament leaks £463.40.

The least green landmark the technology recorded was Manchester Piccadilly, which loses £18,217.

The original software quantifies the data in a traditional infra red image to disclose just how "green" key landmark buildings really are.

Stewart Little, from IRT, said: "The technology behind IRT Energy is so accurate and the analysis so quick, for the first time it is now physically possible to survey and analyse every home in the country, with obvious implications for the Government's environmental targets.

"With thermal imaging technology being developed for use in everything from breast cancer detection to new car technology and IRT Energy's ability to handle millions of images, the possible for future applications is accurately boundless."

'True Blood' gets really large with new incident

Now True Blood's period has truly begun.

VAMPIRE RULES: A guide to eternal life

Not that the first three incidents haven't been great, gory, sexy fantasy fun, or that it hasn't been a delight to see new characters arrive and new stories begin. But with Sunday's episode, the first this term written by creator Alan Ball, you can just feel the show's main plots kick into another gear.

That is, by the way, par for the True Blood course: It was around this same time last go-round that Gran died, the event that jump-started the first season. Nothing quite that series-shaking happens Sunday, but major answers do arrive, including some important new information about that heart-coveting enormous, as major shifts send the characters off and running in new directions.

projected for Sookie and her much-loved blood-sucker, Bill (the perfectly teamed Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer), that means a trip to Dallas to hunt for a kidnapped vampire sheriff, with Bill's vamp ward Jessica (an amusingly petulant Deborah Ann Woll) in tow. No, the show hasn't left the backwoods of Bon Temps. But by taking a big-city sojourn, True Blood can explore a whole new humorous side of its out, loud and proud vampire metaphor, complete with comfort vampire hotels that play vampire porn. (Sample title: interaction With a Vampire.)

'Harper's Island' finale review: I now pronounce you man and...Dagger!

previous night's absurd yet amusing series finale of Harper's Island was riddled with questions -- just not the one I likely to have racing during my head for the total two hours. [Spoiler alerts ahead, DVR users!] Nope, the "Who is the second killer?" mystery was pretty much solved from the "previously on" segment, where we once again got to see Christopher Gorham's Henry trying to stop Abby from taking a shot at Wakefield. And then, of course, Gorham's increasingly unhinged performance gave us another solid tip-off that his bridegroom was the one with blood on his hands.

'Potter' opposition with Malfoy rolls impious in sixth film

WATFORD, England — In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the enduring teenager dispute among the bespectacled boy wizard and his bratty blond nemesis, Draco Malfoy, becomes something much nastier.

though the two have been at loggerheads since Harry started at Hogwarts, things have gotten downright deadly. Harry and Draco's dealings goes from annoying taunts to critical roles in a deadly battle that alters the course of their wizardly world.

And the actors, no longer boys, are up for the manly confronting in the sixth episode, opening in theaters Wednesday.

"It was youngster opposition before," says Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry. "It was playground insults. It was all pretty tame stuff. And then suddenly this time 'round, it actually gets nasty. Draco is turning into something much more meaningful and menacing."

But the aura of menace is nowhere to be found between takes on the convivial Potter set, a previous airplane hangar about an hour outside London. Longtime co-stars have come to regard one another almost as family, having starred in five earlier Potter films mutually.