Police say Parker left when the cashier refused, but was arrested a short time later based on his description.
Opossum takes a ride on N.Y. subway
NEW YORK (AP) — A suspicious passenger of the four-legged variety led to the evacuation of a New York City subway car.
Startled riders aboard a Manhattan-bound train spotted an opossum curled up underneath a seat near the train’s heating duct around 4:30 a.m. on Friday.
The animal apparently boarded the train at Coney Island in Brooklyn, where the platform is above ground. The subway car was evacuated several stops later in Manhattan as officers wearing heavy gloves tried to remove it. When the marsupial bared its teeth at them, animal control experts were called in.
Suspect threatened to spread infection
SHARON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man tried to rob a western Pennsylvania gambling parlor by threatening to spread a staph infection.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for 41-year-old Fred Parker, of Coolspring Township.
Police say he walked into Lucky’s Internet Cafe in Sharon on Monday night and began touching the walls and gambling machines, claiming he has MRSA — a serious staph infection that resists antibiotics.
Sharon police Chief Mike Menster says Parker then threatened to infect the cashier if he didn’t give Parker money.
Police say Parker left when the cashier refused, but was arrested a short time later based on his description.