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April 23, 2000

    WELL, THAT WAS FUN: An 11-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her brother and friends in her Somerset, Mass., home hid in the washing machine, but became stuck inside with her legs around the agitator and her back wedged against the side.
    When a repairman couldn't get her out, the Fire Department had to come and rip the machine apart with the Jaws of Life. She is OK.

    THERE GOES THE BRIDE: Miriam Oxedine, 48, quit her job as a North Carolina music teacher and went to California for a sexual rendezvous with a 16-year-old girl she met in an Internet chat room.
    Prosecutors said the two had exchanged ``marriage vows'' by phone and called each other ``my wife.''
    But before their relationship could be consummated, the cops moved in and arrested Oxedine. She has pled guilty to soliciting a minor for sex and faces up to 15 years in jail when she is sentenced in July.

    GOBBLE! GOBBLE GOBBLE! YIKES! Allen Sherwood, with shotgun in hand and dressed in his camouflage hunting togs, hid under a fallen tree in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico and made noises like a turkey in hopes  he would fool a real turkey who would become his dinner.
    Instead, he fooled a mountain lion. The beast, thinking Sherwood was  the turkey, leapt upon him, inflicting scratches on his face and back before Sherwood elbowed the animal and yelled, scaring him off.

    HEY, THANKS FOR THE TIP: Helpful officials in the Netherlands have published a guidebook to Amsterdam's red-light district not only to keep  foreign tourists safe, but to help them make any embarrassing mistakes.
    The book suggests looking very carefully at any ladies willing to entertain them there.
     ``Lots of tourists are taken by surprise when the lady they are visiting turns out to be a gent,'' it says.

    NERVES OF STEEL: A masked bandit stormed into a convenience store in  Davenport, Iowa, pulled a gun and demanded money.
    The clerk responded with just two words: ``Don't even.''
    The would-be robber said, ``OK,'' and left.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it at bostonherald.com.

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