Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Holdup suspect complained bank had no cash YORK, Pa., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A would-be bank robber threatened to file an official complaint after finding that a bank in Springettsbury Township, Pa., had no cash on hand, police said. Advertisement Police said 48-year-old Joseph Goetz allegedly attempted to rob a Susquehanna Bank branch office in the town this week shortly after it opened, the York (Pa.) Daily Record said Friday. After learning that the bank had no cash on hand to give him, Goetz fled the scene while vowing to file a complaint with bank managers, police allege. A bank customer who had been using the site's drive-thru services allegedly noticed the would-be robber fleeing the scene Thursday and followed Goetz as he left in his car. The unidentified customer called police, who stopped Goetz's vehicle and arrested him on suspicion of attempting to commit a robbery. Advertisement The Daily Record said the alleged robber is being held on $25,000 bail. Customers, tomatoes stop would-be robber ODENSE, Denmark, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Several customers, including a 73-year-old woman armed with a can of tomatoes, stopped a man from robbing a supermarket in Bullerup, Denmark, police said. The suspect was not identified, The Copenhagen Post said Friday. The woman, whose name was not released, apparently began striking the would-be thief with a can of sun-dried tomatoes until he started to flee after the robbery attempt Thursday. During the man's escape attempt, several other customers tried to stop him and one of them managed to restrain him until police arrived. The town is on the island of Funen. Miami sewage plant to get beauty treatment MIAMI, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Architects around the world have responded to a competition to turn a sewage treatment plant in a Miami park into a thing of beauty. The deadline for registering is Monday, but 250 architectural teams had registered by Thursday for DawnTown Waterworks '08, the Miami Herald reported Friday. Registrations came in from across the United States and from Japan, Germany and Finland, among other places. The gray windowless sewage plant is sited at a corner of Bicentennial Park, which is set to be transformed into Museum Park. When the plant was built half a century ago, the area was industrial, with an oil refinery and Port of Miami. Advertisement Architects must submit conceptual designs by Nov. 21. The winner and two runners-up are to be announced Dec. 5 during Miami's Art Basel Fair. The cash rewards are modest, $8,000 for the winner and $4,000 and $2,000 for second and third place. But some of the plans are ambitious, like an Italian firm that proposes using waterfalls to conceal the plant. "When you have a competition, especially an ideas competition, you are taking the lid off and letting people take a crack at the problem," said Terence Riley, director of the Miami Art Museum and a juror for the competition. "They will see it in ways that will surprise you." Ice bomb singles out man's car WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis man visiting the Canadian city of Winnipeg lost his 2-month-old used car when a freak load of heavy ice and snow crushed it on a city street. Marcus Montana, 28, said he parked his 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva near a large intersection around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and went to a restaurant with friends, the Winnipeg Sun reported. When he returned, he said he was shocked to see a mass of ice and snow where the roof had once been. Advertisement "It was pushed all the way down to the seat," he told the newspaper. "There was no snow and no ice anywhere else except on top of my car." Montana told the newspaper he can only speculate wind blew the ice from the roof of a nearby high-rise building but said he's puzzled about its pinpoint accuracy. "If somebody was sitting in the back, they would have probably died or had severe injuries," he said. Montana said he hoped to have travel arrangements home in place by Friday.
