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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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December 3, 2000 THE BLUE SUEDE SHOES CAPER: Marque Love, 19, would sometimes
wear distinctive blue-gray suede shoes while he worked at the North
Community Bank in Chicago. After he left the bank's employ, he came back
wearing a mask - and the suede shoes - to rob the place. The teller
remembered the shoes. The cops went to see Love and found $1,586 in his
pockets. LOOK, A DEER! HEY, HE SEES ME! AIEEEE! Paul Cheatham, age 61,
was taking a walk in the woods in Herrin, Ill., when he was charged by a
male deer sporting a six-point rack of antlers. Cheatam held on to the
animal, pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed him to death. YOU MEAN THIS ISN'T BALTIMORE AIRPORT? Allegedly after
drinking whiskey as he flew along in his Cessna airplane, David
Nickerson descended over Edgewater, Md., skimming the treetops and then
landing on a road which he had mistaken for a runway. After getting out
and moving the aircraft off the road, he asked bystanders to stop
traffic so he could head back into the wild blue yonder. He beat the rap
on drunken flying and pleaded guilty to having an open container of
alcohol on a public road and negligent driving. ALL IN ALL, AN EXCELLENT TRIP: A 54-year-old Swedish
government employee went on a business trip for the city of Malmo with a
travel agent, who submitted a bill for expenses which included visits to
nightclubs, lots of champagne and the services of prostitutes. Eyebrows
were raised. OK, I ADMIT IT! MY DOG IS A DRUG ADDICT! Since animals are not
allowed on British Airways flights, customs officials in Bogota,
Colombia, found it odd that German tourist Uwe Randhahn was headed to
Europe with five cans of dog food in his luggage.
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