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May 13, 2001

NOT ONLY THAT, IT HURTS WHEN I BARK: A golden retriever named Boomer suffered second-degree burns when he tried to run through the invisible electrical fence around his yard in Dayton, Ohio. 
His owners, Andrew and Alyce Pacher, are suing the fence company for the emotional distress suffered by the dog.

YOU KNOW, HE DIDN'T ACT LIKE A TEACHER: A 17-year-old Milwaukee high school student took an unauthorized leave from his classes and spent a week at the Hartford Avenue Elementary School, posing as a teacher. He claimed to be a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee education student, and fooled the principal into allowing him to sit in on classes. 
The ploy fell apart when he took some seventh-graders to the university on a day trip, and was caught stealing a sandwich in the cafeteria.

GRANDMA, HOW COULD YOU!? After hitting a lottery jackpot worth $100,000, a woman hid the winning ticket under the birdcage in the Iowa home she shares with her 85-year-old grandmother, figuring it would be safe there. Imagine the woman's surprise when who gets caught stealing the ticket and trying to cash it in the very next day? Granny, that's who. 
The old lady is charged with felony theft.

I SAID, 'FORE!' Tempers flared on the golf course in East Manatee, Fla., when Robert Jacobs, 62, hit a drive a bit too close to Robert Borkowski, who responded by kicking Jacobs' ball into a lake. Jacobs then tried to take a ball from Borkowski's bag, and, when the Bork-man resisted, attacked him, say police who arrested Jacobs on misdemeanor battery charges. "It probably sounds kind of funny." Jacobs said. 
"If I opened up the paper and read about this, I'd probably have a laugh at it too, but it happened to me."

WE'VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO HE IS: A would-be armed robber demanded that the clerk in the Post Office in Bordeaux, France, hand over $6,800 in cash, but the clerk refused, saying he had nowhere near that amount on hand. So the man, who had an account there, asked to withdraw a small amount legitimately, (French Post offices are like banks) and handed over his identity card to perform the transaction. 
Police had no trouble locating him for arrest.

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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