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  • Halloween fancy dress results in unsuccessful robbery

    Wearing Halloween fancy dress may have sounded like a good idea for a man who tried to rob a restaurant in the US this week - after all, it should have scared everyone enough to result in plenty of money being handed over.

    However, this is not what happened to the bungling burglar, according to the Colorado Daily.

    Although he got all dressed up in a black cape, Halloween mask, gloves and a scary wig, a quick-thinking young cashier refused to be cowed and quickly pressed the panic button behind the counter.

    The unknown man mumbled something

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  • Star Wars fancy dress stunt is internet sensation

    A Star Wars fancy dress stunt carried out in New York's subway earlier this month has become an internet sensation.

    Guerilla theatre group Improv Everywhere dressed up in Star Wars costumes to reenact the scene from the first film of the original trilogy in which Princess Leia meets Darth Vader onboard the Death Star.

    New actors joined the subway train at various stations to help recreate the action, with bewildered members of the public encouraged to participate too.

    According to the Telegraph, the YouTube video created of the 'mission'

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  • Man robs bank in Star Wars fancy dress

    A robber successfully pulled off a daring bank raid last week by wearing Star Wars fancy dress, it has been revealed.

    The baddie went into the Chase bank in Long Island, New York on Thursday (July 22nd 2010) wearing a Darth Vader fancy dress costume and proceeded to threaten staff and customers.

    Unfortunately for him, it took quite a long time to convince the cashiers that the incident was a real heist and not just a reality TV show

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