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April 8, 2001

DIVORCE IS SO DISTASTEFUL: Wed to two woman at the same time, a Rhode Island man wound up trying to end his marriages by murder rather than divorce. 
His first wife discovered that her husband was a bigamist and announced she would leave him, but he chose instead to rectify the situation by planting bombs beneath her car. She survived the explosion. 
While he was in jail, he found out that his second wife was going to testify against him, so he had a hitman kill her. 
He has been imprisoned for life.

FOILED BY A DAYDREAMING CLERK: Two men went to rob a Veterans Administration Credit Union in Connecticut, but were caught because they showed their hand too early. 
The plan was to use surgical masks to hide their identity. Alas, they put them on in the parking lot in full view of a clerk who happened to be looking out the window. She locked the door and called the cops with a description of them and their car. 
They fled, but were soon apprehended.

HEY, I WAS JUST TRYING TO COMFORT YOU: An airline employee sent to assist the survivors of a 1990 plane crash in Little Rock, Ark., embarked on an eight-month sexual relationship with one of the victims. He was forced to resign over this, and now she has filed a lawsuit against American claiming that she suffered anguish not only from the crash but from the affair as well. 
She says he took advantage of her even though it was consensual.

NOW, IS THAT A CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE? A Colorado Baptist Church pastor had been counseling a parishioner for about three years when she began telling strange stories, and, when he expressed skepticism about their veracity, she overreacted a bit, police say. 
They arrested her after a long campaign of harassment and daily death threats against the pastor which culminated when she convinced two teenagers to roll a bottle of gasoline under a car in the church lot to set it ablaze.

HAPPY FEET: Seven folk musicians who had come from Bolivia were arrested at the airport in Rio de Janeiro when officials discovered that the soles of the 21 pairs of shoes in their luggage were filled with cocaine. They explained that they were taking the shoes to refugees in Yugoslavia, and had no idea that they contained coke. 
Since the drugs weighed a whopping 41 pounds, police were skeptical.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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