Police in Iowa are looking for a would-be bank robber who showed up at two West Des Moines branches before they even opened.
A security recording shows a man wearing a bandanna over his face trying to enter a Marine Credit Union branch at around 8.15am, nearly three hours before it opened. Sergeant Tony Giampolo said employees in the car park watched the man yank on the doors before fleeing upon realising they were locked.
A similarly dressed man then tried to enter a nearby First National Bank branch at around 8.45am, but it was not scheduled to open until 9am. The man fled when he spotted an officer inside who was alerting staff about the earlier robbery attempt.

SKIRT SALE
A Wimbledon and internet star who squeezed into Kim Clijsters's skirt after shouting advice from the crowd is to auction it for charity.
Chris Quinn, 46, captain of Greystones Lawn Tennis Club in Ireland, was pulled from the stands to tackle the former grand slam champion's serve after heckling players and borrowed Clijsters's spare whites when she realised his outfit would breach the dress code.
Mr Quinn, who swapped American Football for tennis seven years ago, is to raffle the former gear for the Gavin Glynn Foundation which helps terminally ill children.

AUCTION ERROR
Soap star Gary Lucy has some of Madonna's old rugs stored in his father's garage after accidentally buying them at auction.
The Hollyoaks actor called the carpets his "biggest waste of money" and admitted he had been trying to bid for Paul Weller's guitar, but got confused between lots.
He told The Sun: "I came back into the room just as they mentioned that as the next lot, so I eagerly put my hand up but it wasn't for the guitar - now I've got Madonna's rugs rolled up in my dad's garage."

PARTY OVER
The deputy leader of an Australian political party has been forced to end his nine-year career in parliament after discovering he had technically never been a senator.
Scott Ludlam, the 47-year-old deputy leader of the Greens party, said he was "personally devastated" to learn that he was a citizen of New Zealand as well as Australia, which made him ineligible for the senate job he has held since July 2008. The constitution says a "citizen of a foreign power" is not eligible to be elected to the Australian parliament.
Born in Palmerston North in New Zealand, he moved to Perth, Australia, when was three, and became an Australian as a teenager. He said he had not realised New Zealand citizenship "might be something that sticks to you in that way", adding: "I apologise unreservedly for this. This is an oversight that was avoidable and it's something I should have fixed up."

STADIUM STAND-OFF
Police were called after hundreds of jobseekers flooded a board meeting for a new American football stadium in Las Vegas and became angry when they discovered they had been had by a hoax.
A flyer promoting "pre-job recruitment sign-ups" attracted more than 700 people to a meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board discussing the new arena for the relocating Oakland Raiders. Tensions flared after officials explained there were no jobs yet on the 1.9 billion dollar (£1.5 billion) project.
The fake flyer specifically targeted black men and women, and executives promised they were working on an agreement to address minority hiring. Police had to close off access to the building's car parks after the size of the crowd ballooned.

SPECIAL DELIVERY
Two police officers in Kalamazoo, southwestern Michigan, have helped to safely deliver a baby after the mother started giving birth on her way to hospital.
Authorities say the driver pulled over after the woman's waters broke.
Kalamazoo Public Safety officers were sent to the scene and delivered the baby boy.