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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 24, 2000 I SUPPOSE ANOTHER DATE IS OUT OF THE QUESTION: Claire Swire, a
young British businesswoman, had a lovely London date with Bradley Chait,
an attorney, which had a very passionate ending. A few days later, she
e-mailed him with a complement about the pleasure she received from
their tete-a-tete, graphically describing one of the acts in which they
engaged. Flattered, he forwarded her e-mail to six of his buddies, who
in turn forwarded it to others. And so on. And so forth. Then it hit the
newspapers. At least 10 million people have now read the intimate
correspondence, and Claire and Brad have been featured in all the
British tabloids, along with their photographs. CRIM DUZ NOT PAY: A group of stupid, would-be thieves posed as
soldiers and tried to trick the Boston-based Stern-Leach Company into
shipping them gold. Suspicions were raised when one of them, calling
himself Sergeant Michael Jeffries, misspelled his own rank as "Sargent."
The authorities were immediately alerted. AHHHH! JUST FEEL THAT BREEZE: Retiree Charles Stitzer, 62, was
in the habit of gardening on warm summer nights in the back yard of his
Pleasant Gap, Pa., home wearing only shoes and a watch. His neighbors
took exception. He testified in court that he had done this many times
before, and that it was too dark and too far away from any people for
him to be seen. But Pam Watkins, 20, and Heather Watkins, 15, had a
clear view of him, and they did not like what they saw one little bit.
They told the court they were appalled and offended. LET'S PLAY BY THE RULES, SHALL WE? Two rivals for the same
woman in the Dutch town of Best agreed to settle the matter the
old-fashioned way - with a duel. But no weapons were to be involved. The
contest was to be in the form of a fistfight. But one of the men started
to pull a gun, so the organizer and overseer of the affair drew his own
gun and shot and wounded him. The duel was called off. I REALLY AM THE QUEEN MOTHER: Adelaide Abankwah told a
harrowing tale about how she fled her native Ghana, and, that, since she
is "queen mother" of her tribe and no longer a virgin, she
would face genital mutilation of she is forced to return. Support for
her request for political asylum came from Hillary Clinton and other
politicians as well as actresses Julia Roberts and Vanessa Redgrave and,
of course, feminists. Turns out, she's lying.
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