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July 16, 2000

ASSAULT WITH A HOME APPLIANCE: A mugger, who apparently couldn't afford a gun, confronted his victim on a London street, and ordered him to turn over his valuables or he would hit him on the head with a toaster. 
The robber fled with $18 of the victim's money and a gold chain.

WATCH YOUR STEP, FOLKS: A man stole a 20-seat city bus from the Aurora, Colo., Transit Department garage and proceeded on a joyride around town. But he did pick up several passengers at bus stops and drove them to their destinations. 
The man abandoned the vehicle a few hours later and was still at large.

JUST HANGING AROUND: A group of old folks with no place to gather thought it would be perfectly legal to hold their card game/gab sessions in a vacant Pittsburgh building. It isn't. Though they were orderly and caused no harm to the premises, police arrested the 14 men and two women for defiant trespass. 
The building's sympathetic former owner paid their fine.

PROGRESS AT LAST, WHIRRR, POP! The small California desert town of Chiriaco Summit, population 65, has been powered by diesel generators since 1938, so it was a big day when they finally changed to electric power. 
When the switch was flipped in a solemn ceremony in the main cafe, the air conditioner immediately died.

MEN, YOU FORGOT YOUR BAG: Police in Des Moines, Iowa, stopped a car for a traffic violation. They discovered that the two men in it could not speak English; neither had a drivers license; and the 1994 station wagon was not registered to either of them.    So the cops seized the car, but, trying to be nice, let the two guys go. A subsequent search of the car turned up a duffel bag containing 22 pounds of marijuana. 
The two men have not been seen since.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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