Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Johnny Cash song fails to sway jury PROVO, Utah, April 1 (UPI) -- A Utah jury was not persuaded by a prosecutor's attempt to use a Johnny Cash song to make his case, and acquitted a man of aggravated assault. Advertisement Fidel Quintana, 43, of Orem, was cleared Tuesday by a Provo jury in an October incident involving a drunken fight with two other men, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday. Prosecutors said Quintana used a knife to stab a man under the chin, cutting his mouth and tongue. The defendant's attorneys said he took the action in self-defense. Prosecutor Randy Kennard said he used Cash's ballad "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" in his closing argument because he felt made a point about the case -- the song and the case both involve people under the influence of alcohol taking actions they might have avoided while sober. Advertisement "Some people who heard (the song) thought it fit well, but at the same time, the jury found we didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt," Kennard said. Man calls 911 when strippers don't show FRANKLIN, Wis., April 1 (UPI) -- Police in Wisconsin said a man who visited a gentlemen's club called 911 to report a pair of strippers had failed to show up at his motel room as promised. Franklin police said the 37-year-old Illinois man told them he spent $1,000 on lap dances from two exotic dancers at On The Border gentlemen's club Sunday night, and the women promised to visit his room at a local motel later in the morning for "on the house" lap dances, Wauwatosa (Wis.) Now.com reported Thursday. The man called police at 1:26 a.m. Monday to report the strippers hadn't shown up and he felt he had been cheated. Bronx cobra recaptured in reptile house NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- The Bronx Zoo's fugitive Egyptian cobra turned up Thursday exactly where officials with the New York zoo predicted, in a dark corner of the reptile house. The reptile house had been closed to the public and kept quiet with lights out since the deadly snake slithered out of its enclosure six days ago, the New York Daily News reported. Zoo workers surveyed the reptile house three times a day. Advertisement The cobra was discovered coiled in a corner at about 9 a.m. and quickly returned to captivity with handling tongs. Officials said the snake would be kept under observation to make sure it suffered no ill effects. While late-night comics speculated about the cobra's doings and someone set up a Twitter feed in which the snake described its travels around New York, Jim Breheny, the zoo director, insisted there was little risk to the public. He said the snake almost certainly stayed close to home. "We knew it was going to be a game of patience. We set the place up to make it easier to search," Breheny said after the capture. "We wanted to just let her feel comfortable. We did everything we could to help her feel secure." The zoo said security in the reptile house enclosures is being examined. Poorly written-note robber pleads guilty MINNEAPOLIS, April 1 (UPI) -- A Minnesota man admitted in court to robbing a bank using a confusing demand note reading, "Give money, I gun." Joe Nathan Michael, 48, of Fridley, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Minneapolis federal court to the May 20, 2010, robbery at the TCF Bank inside of Cub Foods in Fridley, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Thursday. Advertisement Investigators said the teller was confused by Michael's note until he verbally demanded money and put his hand inside his jacket pocket to indicate he was armed. Michael left the bank with $1,991 in addition to recorded bait bills and a concealed electronic tracking device. He was arrested at a bus stop a short time after the robbery and the money was recovered. No weapon was found. Michael has previous felony convictions for robbery and domestic assault and gross misdemeanor convictions for assault and domestic assault.
