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According to police, 36-year-old Rosalean Walker of Manhattan went to a multiplex theater in Jersey City, New Jersey, in December with her boyfriend and her 11-year-old son. When the grown-ups’ movie (In the Mix) ended, the boyfriend went into the theater where the son was watching the much longer Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but soon reported back to Walker that he couldn’t find him, and they left. Security guards found the boy at 2 AM; police called Walker and told her to come back to New Jersey to pick him up, but according to police reports, she instructed them to “just put him in a police car and bring him home.” Charged with endangering the welfare of a child, Walker surrendered to Jersey City authorities the following week but apparently became agitated when she found members of the press waiting at the police station; within a few minutes she was arrested for aggravated assault on a police officer after allegedly hitting a cop with her cane.
The Continuing Crisis
After getting about $60 out of the register, the masked robber of a convenience store in Joplin, Missouri, in November had an oddly difficult time fleeing the scene: apparently failing to notice the sign directing him to the unlocked door he’d walked in through moments earlier, he tried to kick open the locked door next to it, then picked up a magazine rack and unsuccessfully attempted to smash the door glass. He eventually used the rack to break a window and crawled out. (No arrests have been reported yet.)
Thinning the Herd
