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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 28, 2001 YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME, COPPER ... AIEEEE! With sheriff's
deputies in hot pursuit, Ernesto Acosta drove his stolen car into a
California campground, jumped out and made a run for it in the dark.
When he came to a three-foot fence, he made the decision to leap without
looking. He was unaware that just beyond the fence was the edge of a
64-foot cliff. REAL COOL CATS: Mike Lalley was out walking his Labrador
retriever, Jessie, one cold morning in Cedarburg, Wis., when the dog
suddenly started sniffing and digging in a hard-packed snowbank. Lalley
looked over to see what the animal was so agitated about, and discovered
a live cat beneath the frozen crust. He quickly dug the kitty out. There
were four others huddled beneath it for warmth. OH, THE PAIN! Construction worker William Bartron, 25,
accidentally cut off his hand with a power saw while on the job at a
home in Bethlehem, Pa. His pain and agony were so intense that he picked
up a pneumatic nail gun and repeatedly shot himself in the head in an
attempt to end his life. He survived. COME ON, BABY, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO: Reindeer in the Seward
Peninsula of Alaska are being swept off their hooves by their wild
cousins, the caribou, and are leaving their farms and running off with
them. Reindeer farmers have asked for federal disaster funds, because
the Western Arctic caribou herd has been migrating to the east, luring
reindeer on farms there. Once the reindeer go with the caribou, they
don't come back. THANKS FOR DROPPING IN, PINHEAD: Wayne Starkey, whose
girlfriend is locked up in Florida's Volusia County Correctional
Facility, was apprehended as he tried to climb up into a guard tower
from the outside. He explained to arresting officers that he was trying
get some letters that the girlfriend says she mailed to him but that had
not yet received.
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