Have you tried chocolates and flowers?

[House of Mustard]

From CNN today:

EDMOND, Oklahoma (Reuters) -- An Oklahoma man desperate to save his marriage by appearing like a hero to his wife ended up in police custody on suspicion of staging a crime. He hired "burglars" and foiled their fake robbery attempt, police said on Friday.

Trent Spencer, 27, of Edmond, north of Oklahoma City, was charged this week with the misdemeanor crime of filing a false report, said police spokeswoman Glynda Chu.

According to police, Spencer, a high school teacher, paid two students $100 each to break into his house and try to make off with a stereo.

The masked students tied his wife with duct tape and her husband was in the house just in time to foil the supposed crime, police said.

Police said Spencer attacked the two in a choreographed fight, even hitting one with a board that he had cut to break in half. The plan was going well until his wife freed herself and called police, something Spencer did not anticipate, police said.

[stacer]

Yeah, those damsels in distress, they know better than to just stand to the side and scream nowadays.

[Maxwell]

that was a dumb idea...he shouldnt have cut the board.

[Skar]

What a complete idiot.  I often wish that stories like this one would come with a picture.  I have a deep need to know what people who do things like this look like.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

hmm...I dunno, pretty creative!

[Archon]

Yeah, creative, the only problem is that any plan you might have that doesnt work entitles people to call you a dunce. You may or may not deserve it, but who said life was fair?

[Master Xaio]

Archon, Please Don't.  When you say things like that, you sound like my mother.

[Archon]

Your mom tells you that if you try something and it doesnt work out that you are a dunce?