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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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September 17, 2000 RIGHT ON GIRLS, WE'RE WITH YA': Salinas, Calif., High School
girls staged an angry protest because they thought the dress code barred
them from wearing skimpy thong underwear. It doesn't. The code does
prohibit attire that "disrupts the effective functioning of the
school,'' but the notion that thongs were specifically banned was merely
a rumor. Nonetheless, while they at it, the girls also asserted their
right to wear low-cut tops. KA-BOOM! LET'S HAVE THE MONEY: Bandits intent on robbing the
Colorado East Bank and Trust Co. kidnapped the bank president to force
him to open the vault, but first firebombed the La Junta elementary
school to create a diversion. The whole plan fell apart when the
hostage/president couldn't get the bank vault open. TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMIC PLAN: Criminals in Ohio who are ordered
by a judge to pass drug tests, are supposed to urinate in a cup while
being watched by an employee of Tri-State Phlebotomy, a testing company.
Police say one such employee was helping the criminals pass the drug
tests by selling them his own drug-free urine at $20 a cup. THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE: A sting operation in Miami in
which female police officers posed as prostitutes soliciting sex netted
a surprising suspect: Miami Police Maj. Juan Garcia, a top candidate for
the job of police chief. When arrested for solicitation, he said that
the hooker/cop misunderstood what he said. CALL OF THE WILD: Eight years ago, Margaret Hershberger began raising a baby deer at her rural home in Mapleton, Kan. It eventually grew into a 200-pound, six-point buck, named Mojo, and, one day when she went out to feed the chickens, it gored the 75-year-old woman to death. "This is a horrible example of what can happen when you try to tame wild animals,'' said Sheriff Harold Coleman.
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