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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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June 3, 2001 THIS BABY HANDLES PRETTY GOOD: A 48-year-old man took a car
out for a test drive from a New Hampshire dealership and then went to
Vermont where he attracted the attention of state troopers by roaring up
and down I-91, at speeds of more than 120 mph. The cops finally put an
end to the joyride by ramming the 2000 Ford Mustang. SO, IS THIS YOURS? Employees of a dry cleaner in Chattanooga,
Tenn., routinely going through the pockets of some shirts to be
laundered, found a holdup note from a bank robbery. They turned it over
to FBI agents, who went to the home of the man who owned the shirts, and
he confessed to three robberies. I WAS THERE, BUT I FORGOT: An employee of the New York City
Transit Authority, told police he couldn't possibly have strangled his
ex-girlfriend because he was miles away, on the Staten Island Ferry, at
the time. However, a check of his computerized transit pass showed he
boarded a bus heading toward the woman's apartment just before the
murder, and later boarded another bus toward his home after the
murder. SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP: A Chicago woman stole almost $250,000 from
her employer over three years by padding her expense accounts and then
spending the money on extensive shopping sprees. She admitted she did
it, but, in hopes of avoiding jail, she invoked the shopaholic defense,
saying she had to shop to fight depression. It worked. IS THERE A MERIT BADGE FOR THAT? During a Girl Scout sleepover
at a Manchester, N.H., church, a 19-year-old scout leader allegedly
solicited sex from one of the 12-year-old scouts.
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