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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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July 8, 2001 BUT WE'RE PRETTY SURE IT'S HIM: An armed bandit on a bicycle
robbed two men in Philadelphia then shot at his victims, but one of them
returned fire with his own gun, hitting the robber in the chest. Later
that night, Nathan Pailin, 18, appeared at the hospital for treatment of
a gunshot wound, moving him right to the top of the police's list of
suspects. But the doctors didn't remove the bullet fragments, and Pailin
later refused to have an operation to have them taken out and used as
evidence against him. CANCEL THOSE INTERVIEWS: A 56-year-old man with a wife and
four children lost his job, so you would figure that he would have to be
a real nitwit to be playing the slot machines at the Mystic Lake Casino
in Minnesota. That is, of course unless he hits the jackpot, which he
did, for almost $2.9 million. He paid half of that in taxes and walked
away with $1.5 million. CARLOS, I DON'T SEE ANY PALM TREES: Three young men in the
Dominican Republic stowed away on a cargo ship for a free ride to
Florida where they intended to start a new life. To their surprise, the
ship docked in Tilbury Docks in southeast England 40 days later. OK, MARIO ANDRETTI, HANDS UP: A man leapt into an automobile
and pulled a gun on the female driver in an attempted carjack at a
drugstore parking lot in California, but soon discovered the vehicle had
a manual transmission with a clutch, which he didn't know how to
operate. So he made the woman shift gears for him. The car coasted past
some police officers who gave chase when they saw him struggling with
the controls. The carjacker tried to get out and run, but was dragged
several feet by the seatbelt. THEY'LL NEVER EXPECT THIS: Even though he was a resident of
East Jersey State Prison for 15 years before escaping last January, a
man and his three ex-con buddies in need of a car decided to steal one
from that very institution's the staff parking lot.
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