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August 27, 2000

NOW, THIS GUY LOOKS SUSPICIOUS: Danny Morts escaped from custody after being charged in a Van Buren, Ark., courtroom with loitering, and then shed his black-and-white striped jail uniform because he didn't want to attract any attention. But the fact that he was then stark naked defeated his purpose, and he was arrested a block away. 
Police Lt. Tony Kaman said that the arresting officer found it easy to spot Morts: "He kind of stuck out to officer Green.''

HONEY, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PICTURE: A surveillance camera in a Colorado video store filmed a young man breaking in after hours and robbing the place, and the Denver Post ran a photo of the burglar. Then came something no one expected. The burglar's parents saw the picture of their son in the paper and ordered him to turn himself in. David Allen, 19, went to the police station and admitted everything. 
He was charged and then released, ironically enough, on his own recognizance. 

LEAVE THE DRIVING TO HIM: Seeking to visit his grandfather, 9-year-old Ronnell Blakeney went down to the Trailways bus station in Washington, D.C., found an empty bus with the door open, jumped in and started driving. e was arrested after crashing the bus while trying to make a U-turn onto I-395. 
His mother, Louise Blakeney, said the boy is in a heap of trouble at home. "Ronnell is already punished through November,'' she said, "and now this is going to take away his Christmas.'' 

ISN'T THERE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON THIS? Adonia Basalirwa, 97, who married his wife, Florence Mpakibi, in 1935 when he was 32 and she was 12 years old, filed for divorce in a Ugandan court to end their 65-year marriage on the grounds that his wife had been unfaithful to him. He claimed that Florence, now 77, had adulterous relationships with several men between 15 and 25 years ago when she was in her 50s and early 60s. Adonia didn't say why he waited so long to go to court. 
Anyway, his suit was dismissed for lack of evidence.

THEY THOUGHT IT WAS BONNIE, BUT IT WAS CLYDE: What appeared to be a buxom woman with a black ponytail and silver lipstick robbed a bank in Pittsburgh and then led police on a high-speed chase through the city before abandoning the getaway car and attempting to make a run for it. Police caught up with her, only to find that she is a man named George Keith Williams Jr., 22, dressed in women's clothes. 
He was arrested.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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