Today is the day to be the bad guy.

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I read with some frustration the article Man swinging a flaming torch fashioned from a T-shirt robs bank in Alaska. Now I am not a detective but I do watch a lot of "Law and Order" (the original is the best). It seems clear that what we have here is a copycat criminal.

It started in in 1990, when a man in Iceland entered a bank wildly swinging a pitchfork and demanded that the tellers give him everything they had. Then, in 1994, a man, perhaps the same one, perhaps not, robbed a bank in Siberia with a spiked mace. He made off with everything in the safe. Things were quiet until 2000, when a trading post in Greenland was raided by a fellow with a sharpened spike. In 2001, it happened again, this time in Antarctica. You guessed it--another bank robbery, this time by a man carrying a cauldron of hot oil managed to hold up the only bank on the continent. It's unclear how he managed to empty out the entire bank while holding the cauldron, but he did it. Finally, our last encounter with this thief was in 2004, when Guenther Oontog was finally arrested trying to stick up a bank in Oslo with a double headed war axe. Tellers were able to notify the police when the now notorious felon accidentally got the blade of the axe stuck in the floor. Guenther is now spending 300 years in the gulag, so clearly, we're dealing with someone who liked his style. I would keep an eye out for anyone wielding a cannon at any banks in areas with a frigid clime, because he's only going to get more sophisticated as he continues, people.