Nashville cops trade fire with leprechaun

Tennessee cops yesterday shot dead two fugitives - one dressed as a leprechaun - after the pair robbed a branch of the First State Bank in Nashville. According to AP, one of the men, dressed in "a green top hat, vest and shorts and a fake brown beard and wig", first walked into a Fifth Third Bank in the suburb of Gallatin, …

[Anonymous Coward]

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Are they eligible for a Darwin?

Cos they sure were dumb as F...

[EvilTweety]

End of the rainbow...

That pot o' gold don't fill itself you know...

[Anonymous Coward]

A Rainbow in Nashville ???

pull the other one...

obviously picked the day the weatherman got it wrong again...

[Bruce Cook]

Where's

the play mobile recreation???

[Robert Carnegie]

They killed a leprechaun.

It puts not having the "correct" colour of website banner on St Patrick's day into perspective.

(Do you do holidays of other religions besides Irishness? I think Muslims like green as well?)

[h 6]

I think Muslims like green as well?

You mean the opposition movement in Iran, yes.

[Anonymous John]

Well it was St Patrick's Day

The one day in the year when a leprechaun might not attract attention.

I for one, welcome our new gun toting supernatural overlords. Come and try and rob our banks if you're 'ard enough.

[Tom Maddox]

Sounds like they got . . .

. . . way more than his Lucky Charms.

[Mark 65]

Lesson is

If you want to trade fire with the po-po make sure you're better armed and a better shot. What's the bets at least one of them was firing his gun tilted over to the side like some twat gangster in a movie?

[Robert Carnegie]

Re Islam and the colour green

I don't want to go further than

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_in_Islam

"Islam" is different things to different people.