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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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August 6, 2000 WELCOME, HAVE A PLEASANT STAY: A man took a $1,000 deposit
from two women for an apartment for rent in Manchester, N.H., and told
them they could move in any time. But he also took more than $20,000 in
deposits from at least 15 other people and told them they could move in
too. The scheme came to light when people kept showing up at the
apartment which the initial two women had moved into, expecting to move
in themselves. WELL DONE, NOW BEAT IT! When a woman brandishing a sawed-off
rifle tried to rob the 7-Eleven convenience store in Martinsburg, W.Va.,
the clerk, Antonio Feliciano, foiled her plan, bravely wrestling the
weapon away from her and holding her down until the cops arrived.
Unfortunately, 7-Eleven has a policy for robberies that must be obeyed:
Just hand over the money. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Though it was in a well lighted area
and in full view of a Chinese restaurant and several stores in a
shopping mall, three young men tried to noisily break open a soda
machine with a crowbar in Haverhill, Mass. Many people called the police
who arrived just as the three were putting the crowbar into the back of
their car. DON'T WORRY, WE'LL GET THERE ONE DAY: American Airlines Flight
39 from San Francisco to Hawaii was three hours out over the Pacific
Ocean when engine trouble forced the jetliner to turn back to
California. TAKE THAT, YOU SWINE! Fifteen-year-old Amanda Albrecht's
250-pound hog won the title of grand champion market hog at the Lincoln
County Fair in Nebraska, and was resting in its pen afterwards when
someone came in and assaulted the animal.
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