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Customer ends 'stupidity' bank robbery

ATLANTA, July 13 (UPI) -- A Georgia man's Marine Corps training helped him foil a bank robbery carried out by a bandit allegedly armed with a fire extinguisher.

Police said Timothy Armstead followed the suspect out of the bank in DeKalb County Tuesday, put him in a chokehold and held him for police.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Armstead, 27, was already in a grumpy mood due to a discrepancy in his account, and blew off some steam by lecturing the immobilized robber.

"What I did was something to stop all the stupidity going on," the former leatherneck told the newspaper.

Police said the suspect demanded $2,000 from the teller, pulled the pin on the fire extinguisher and threatened to blow up the building.

Tallest groom marks Mongolia nuptials

SHANGHAI, July 13 (UPI) -- The world's tallest man was married in Mongolia with a traditional ceremony and even corporate sponsors.

Bao Xishun, 56, a 7-foot, 9-inch herdsman, tied the knot this week with his relatively diminutive -- at 5-feet, 6-inches -- 26-year-old bride, Xia Shujuan, inside an over-sized yurt, The Shanghai Daily reported from the Genghis Khan Resort Thursday.

The affair outside Erdos City was big enough -- for Mongolia -- that 15 companies provided refreshments, clothing and a custom-made camel hair blanket.

The couple doesn't yet know if children are in the future but Bao told reporters he would consider a future in basketball for any offspring who share his height.

Penthouse or bust for NYC couple

NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- The sale of a posh Manhattan penthouse has led to a lawsuit by a Brooklyn, N.Y., couple who had planned to get married there this fall.

Michelle Barry and Jesse Nesmith were among eight couples who had their plans to get married in the Greenwich Village residence, known as Sky Studios, scuttled by the sale of the place to billionaire Ron Burkle.

Barry filed a lawsuit against the company that owned the penthouse, seeking not only $400,000 in damages but also the right to proceed with the Sept. 15 ceremony in the space as originally planned, The New York Post reported.

"We were hoping to have this all planned by now," Barry said. "I'm just feeling stressed, like maybe we should elope."

N.J. governor swears off e-mail

TRENTON, N.J., July 13 (UPI) -- New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine said in response to a lawsuit seeking his e-mail records that he is swearing off electronic mail in its entirety.

Corzine said -- after Republicans filed suit seeking e-mail correspondence between him and Carla Katz, the state union president and a former companion of Corzine's -- he will no longer communicate via e-mail, The New York Times reported.

The governor claims the e-mail messages sent to the leader of the Communications Workers of America Local 1034 from a private campaign account are private messages and therefore protected by executive privilege. But to prevent future problems, he said he will rely on other forms of communication.

"We'll go back to the 1920s and have direct conversations with people," he told the Times.

Corzine acknowledged that the change could be difficult for aides who rely on e-mail to communicate with the governor.

"It'll slow processes down," Corzine said. "We'll just have to find another way to do it."