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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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June 25, 2000 AS LONG AS WE STICK TO THE ISSUES: This week's Republican
primary runoff election for state representative from Goose Creek, S.C.,
is getting downright nasty. Shirley Hinson, 50, who currently holds the
seat, is facing a challenge from Jimmy Hinson, her husband of 32 years,
now estranged. The most interesting thing about the campaign is his
accusation that his wife had an affair with James Law, a fellow
Republican Rep., whom Jimmy Hinson allegedly threatened to kill two
years ago. A private detective followed Law and Mrs. Hinson and reported
seeing them at night in a car on a dirt road. IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ... Police in Las Vegas say they
saw Juliano Rosado driving a new car stolen from an auto dealership, so
when he parked in front of his house and went in, the cops got a
duplicate key and drove it back to where it belonged. Sometime later,
Rosado came out of his home, looked in vain for the car, and then went
to another dealership and stole a pickup truck, followed this time by
the cops. When he went into a pawn shop, the police drove that vehicle
back too. Rosado came out and saw that his vehicle was gone again, so he
went to yet to yet another dealership and stole a sport utility vehicle.
This time the police arrested him. They let him go when he agreed to
testify in another case, and made him promise not to steal any more
cars. SO, BOYS, HOW DO I LOOK? An exotic dancer in Florida sued her
plastic surgeon because he enhanced her buttocks with breast implants.
Mary Gale, 43, said this made her bum look funny, so she can no longer
do her hootchie-kootchie dances at men's clubs where she earned $500 a
night. She is now a bartender. The doc countered that there were no
commercially available buttock implants at the time, and Gale knew what
she was getting. WE DON'T COTTON TO THAT STUFF HERE: A deputy sheriff thought
it odd to see a California taxicab in the middle of Kansas, so he pulled
it over to ask a few routine questions. All seemed to be on the
up-and-up when the driver explained that his fare had agreed to pay him
$2,500 to drive him 2,200 miles from Los Angeles to Cincinnati. But
then, the deputy discovered that the passenger had hidden 10 pounds of
marijuana in a television set in the back seat. NOW, THAT'S A COOL MOM: After being thrown out of a hotel
where she was hosting a 13th birthday party for her daughter and six of
her friends, a Manchester, N.H., mother took the kids to to the birthday
girl's father's house where the celebration got even better. Police say
that, since it was a special occasion, Tamara Dennis, 41, allowed the
children to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana. According to court
records, she told them, "If I give you guys this and let you do
this, you can't tell anybody."
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