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June 17, 2001

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, IT WAS PROBABLY WORTH IT: An Ohio high school baseball team, staying in a Cincinnati hotel while on a road trip, decided to have a little fun. They pooled their money and hired strippers, who were advertised in the telephone book, to drop in and strut their stuff. Alas, school officials found out, and retribution was swift. 
Fourteen players were kicked off the team and suspended from school for a week.

AND BAD GIRLS GET LOVE BITES: Sai R. Maddi, 26, wed his 23-year-old bride in an arranged marriage in his native India and then went to live with her in Morristown, N.J., where police arrested him for biting her more than 30 times. 
Police contend he admitted it, saying, "She was bad."

I'M COMING HOME, JESUS: A 72-year-old woman drove up on the shoulder of the road to get around a Missouri traffic jam, perhaps not realizing that one of the vehicles she passed illegally contained the police chief. He went after her, and she wound up leading the cops on a 14-mile, high-speed chase that ended when she rammed a deputy's car which was put across the road to block her. 
She explained to arresting officers that she was headed to "eternity."

SEE IF YOU CAN HOLD ONTO THIS ONE, JIMBO: Here's a twist on the usual lost-class-ring-found-years-later-and-returned-to-owner story. Minneapolis seventh graders digging a garden for a science class project turned up a 1973 St. Margaret's High School ring, and soon located its owner, 45-year-old James Clifford. Come to find out, when he lost that ring in '73 he got a replacement - which he also lost. That one was also recovered ten years later, when city workers found it while they were cleaning sewer lines in Edina, Minn. They returned it to him. 
Asked where the replacement ring is now, he replied, "Gosh. I have no idea."

BUT HOW WILL I GET HOME? A woman was arrested for drunk driving as she was leaving a meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Albuquerque, N.M. 
As a result of a previous drunk driving conviction, she had been ordered to attend a victim-impact panel which MADD was conducting, but was thrown out because she showed up intoxicated.

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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