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November 19, 2000

THAT WAS NO LADY: Kesaraporn Duangsawan, was named first runner-up in the Miss Media beauty contest in Ratchaburi, Thailand, but her terrible secret soon came to light. Kesaraporn is a man. Pageant organizers discovered this when other contestants, who were in a position to know, lodged complaints. 
He was disqualified.

IS THERE A MERIT BADGE FOR THAT? A 12-year-old Boy Scout got into a sexual affair with his scoutmaster's 38-year-old wife. The woman pleaded guilty to having sex with the kid nine times, and is serving four years in a Barnstable, Mass., jail. 
Her husband was accused of setting the whole thing  up, but he was acquitted.

CALL OF THE WILD, SUBURBAN-STYLE: Two deer, deep in the mating season in Colorado, saw their reflection in the window of Kathryn MacGregor's Boulder home, mistook it for a challenge from another deer, and charged. MacGregor was upstairs when she heard the animals crashing around in her family room, desperately seeking a way out of the house. She fled and called animal control officers who subdued them. "They pretty much left me with a big mess," she said.
 "There was blood everywhere."

KEEP DEMAGOGUERY ALIVE: W. Michael Altman formed a new church in Munhall, Pa., which he called "a new ministry reaching a new generation," and then, police say, swindled his parishioners senseless, using church money for limousines, vacations in Florida and Cancun, Mexico and other luxuries. He was also charged with forcing a secretary to have sex. Altman denies all unpastor-like behavior.

TAKE THAT, COPPER! Someone picked up a Holyoke, Mass., police cruiser with a bucket loader from a nearby construction site and dropped it on a police pickup truck at the municipal garage. 
Both police vehicles were totaled.

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