[SOC] SOC candidates

[Bill Cunningham]

.  AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked
Intellectual leadership. AT&T provided him with a $26 million severance
package.

2.  Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a
gunman, who had barricaded himself inside his home.  After firing ten tear
gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in
the police line, shouting "PleaseCome out and give yourself up."

3.  An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and
forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, where the
kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

4.  A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop, and asked for all the
money in the cash drawer.  Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up
the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until Police
showed up and grabbed him.

5.  Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just
couldn't control himself during a lineup.  When detectives asked each man in
the lineup to repeat the words "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the
man shouted, "That's not what I said!"

6.  A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her
contractions are only two minutes apart!"  "Is this her first child?" the
doctor asked.  "No!", the man shouted, "This is her husband!"...

7.  In Modesto, California, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to
hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon.  King used a thumb and a
finger to simulate a gun, but unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in
his pocket.