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A Texan man has been arrested for trying to cash a fake cheque at a bank - for £180 billion.

Employees at the Chase Bank in Fort Worth grew suspicious after seeing the cheque for $360,000,000,000 and called the account holder.

The woman said the suspect, Charles Ray Fuller, 21, was her daughter’s boyfriend and did not have permission to take the cheque or cash it.

Fuller was arrested on suspicion of fraud, along with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana, reports the Star-Telegram.

While inside a patrol car, police say Fuller claimed he was starting his own record label and had been given the money by his girlfriend’s mother to help him start it.

source: ananova.com

Pink Floyd star Roger Waters offered a £5,000 reward after his giant inflatable pig disappeared over the horizon.

The two-storey-high pig was released during the climax of Water’s set at the Coachella Festival in California.

Waters offered a cash reward, plus four lifetime tickets to the festival, for the safe return of the stage prop.

As it drifted over Indio, California, Waters, 64, said: “That’s my pig.” It was released as he sang Pigs from the 1977 Floyd album Animals.

On its underbelly was emblazoned the word “Obama”, backing Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Happily for the former Floyd bassist, it was later found in two parts at an exclusive country club at La Quinta.

“The pig was found in a La Quinta country club by two families,” according to festival spokeswoman Marcee Rondan, who said the families would split the cash reward and each receive two tickets for life to Coachella

source: ananova.com

A religious beekeeper in Serbia has started making beehives shaped like tiny monasteries and churches “because bees have a soul too”.

Slobodan Jeftic, 58, from Stari Kostolac, said: “By doing this, I am bringing together the two great loves of my life, beekeeping and my religion.

“It means that as well as taking care of my bees so that they have a place to live and make their honey, I am also taking care of their souls.”

He has built all his hives in the shape of Orthodox churches and monasteries in Serbia.

source: ananova.com

A Czech man abandoned an armed robbery after a shop assistant invited him for a “nice cup of tea and a piece of cake”.

The man had pulled out a gun to demand money from Marketa Vachova, 59, at the supermarket in Cesky Tesin in the northern Czech Republic.

But, even though his face was hidden by a Spiderman mask, Marketa decided the robber “seemed like a nice young man”.

She said: “I asked him why he was doing this and we got talking. There was no one else in the shop so I guess he relaxed a bit, and in the end he apologised. I said if he wanted he could come and talk to me and have a cup of tea and slice of homemade cake to talk about his problems. He agreed and then walked off.”

Police are searching for the man.

source: TOI

A burglar who broke into a funeral parlour in Spain tried to fool the police by playing dead.

But he was caught out when police spotted his scruffy clothes – and then noticed he was breathing.

Police and the Crespo Funeral Home said they had no idea what the 23-year-old man was trying to steal. People in the neighbourhood alerted police when they heard the door being forced in the middle of the night. Police officers arrived with the owner, and eventually found the suspect lying on a table in a chamber used for viewing dead people during wakes.

“The custom here is for dead people to be dressed in suits, in nice clothes that look presentable. This guy was in everyday clothes that were wrinkled and dirty,” a spokeswoman said.

source: TOI