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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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January 21, 2001 CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS: After their car - which contained their checkbook - was stolen, a couple raced to their Woodstock, Ga., bank to close their account. Upon arriving, however, they were surprised to see their stolen car in the drive-through lane. And inside was a couple trying to cash one of the stolen checks. The victims called 911, and the police stepped in. But even if the thieves hadn't been spotted, the cops wouldn't have had much trouble catching them. One of them used his own driver's license to cash the check, which he made out to himself, using his real name. Sheriff Roger Garrison said, "Obviously, he was doomed from the start." I CAN'T SEEM TO LOSE THESE COPS: A man robbed a credit union
in Vancouver, British Columbia, then jumped into a cab to make his
getaway, unaware that the taxi was equipped with a global positioning
device that tracks vehicles by satellite. HONEY, I TOLD YOU A LITTLE FIB: Anthony Starita's wife
tearfully told him that she was raped in an alley as she walked home
from a bar in Redondo Beach, Calif. She named Ali Sina Sharareh as her
attacker. Enraged, the husband went and shot him, but he survived. Then,
the wife changed her story. She now says she had consensual sex with
Ali. Then he raped her. The bottom line? TALK ABOUT BAD LUCK: At 33, Jimmy Burkhead was overwhelmed by
life, and so ended it all by jumping off a highway overpass in Salina,
Kan. As an unintended consequence, he took Lyndon Gurtner, a total
stranger, with him. WELL, THANKS EVER SO MUCH: Cori McCain was forced to resign as
councilwoman in Castle Rock, Colo., after she was convicted of
defrauding a local bank of $269,000. Speaking to the press, she tried to
illustrate her devotion to the town by the sacrifice she had to make in
order to do her job. "I gave eight years of my life to this
community," she said.
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