When Percy Honniball, a San Francisco carpenter, was abruptly fired from a contract job last October, his concern was for the half-built bookshelves he was about to leave behind.

The 50-year-old man, however, appeared unfazed by the fact that his preference for working in the buff was the cause of his termination.

He was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure on April 21.

According to the newspaper The Enterprise Record, the employer's neighbors saw the naked carpenter walking back and forth to collect tools and, at one point, sawing wood in the backyard. They alerted the homeowner, who was out of the house at the time. The man returned to his home and ordered Honniball to leave.

The incident was not Honniball's first brush with nude carpentry, the report said. He has been cited three times for public nudity since 2000, and was placed on two years probation in 2003.

Honniball was not arrested until April 10 because investigators needed to gather more evidence for a warrant. When Oakland police arrested the man, the report said he told officers that working sans clothing improved his range of motion and made him a more efficient worker, and that it also prevented his clothes from getting dirty.

The nudist carpenter posted $5000 bail and reportedly apologized to the homeowner.

Two things we're pretty sure Spider-man wouldn't do: Smoke cigarettes, or attempt to rob a store to get his hands on a pack.

So, when the comic book hero acted out of character on January 19, it was because his alter ego was not Peter Parker, but Robert Williams of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Williams, 24, was charged with attempted armed robbery on April 27 for allegedly trying to steal a pack of cigarettes.

According to Lt. William Graham of the Waukesha Police Department, Williams was wearing a Spider-man mask when he entered a gas station store and asked for cigarettes. However, after the clerk placed the merchandise on the counter, Williams told the clerk he had no money.

When the clerk returned the pack to the shelves, Williams reportedly retrieved a large piece of asphalt from his pocket and hurled it at the man. The rock missed the clerk and the suspect fled the store.

Investigators got a description of Williams from video cameras at another service station, where the suspect was observed walking around with the mask pulled more than halfway off his face. After media reports of the robbery, Lt. Graham said the management company of Williams' apartment company contacted investigators to say that the man had moved out of his apartment and that they had located a Spiderman mask.

Williams was later located with the help of his girlfriend, the lieutenant said. The newspaper The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Williams admitted to the robbery attempt after a detective contacted him by phone; Lt. Graham would not confirm or deny the report.

One robber's grocery store stickup left him without a leg to stand on.

Justin Damani Radcliff, who wears a prosthetic for a partially amputated leg, broke the femur of the same leg as he fled the scene of an alleged robbery.

According to a document from the Goldsboro Police Department in North Carolina, Radcliff, 30, armed with a gun, entered a convenience store on April 24 and demanded money from the clerk. After he forced the clerk into a back room, he fled on foot through a nearby field to meet Kellee Bavo, his waiting accomplice and their car.

Radcliff, however, failed to notice a 10-foot-deep drainage field in the field and fell into the hole, breaking his leg. Sergeant David Kelly said the suspect called out to investigators when he heard them conducting a search of the area. The city's rescue squad and fire department later retrieved Radcliff from the hole and transported him to a hospital for treatment. His gun and the stolen money were recovered from the site.

Officers found Bavo waiting in the car and placed her under arrest. She was charged with being an accessory to armed robbery and held at the Wayne County detention center under $75,000 bond.

Damani was released from the hospital on May 2 and transported to the detention center, where he was charged with armed robbery. He is being held on $150,000 bond.