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August 12, 2001

    BUT IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA:  A Sri Lankan man whose wife was having an affair realized that he could do nothing about it, but, instead of seeking relief in divorce court, he went to the other man with legal papers and arranged to ``transfer'' his unfaithful wife to him as if she  were property.
    The man paid two rupees (two cents) in state taxes and the lover agreed to the deal. However, the police invalidated the transaction ruling that it was not legal.

    THEY SAID THEY WERE BUDDIES, BUT ... :   A North Carolina woman claims that her 11-year marriage was destroyed by her husband's extramarital affair _ with another man.
    The homewrecking dude _ who is also married, no less _ sent email messages and made phone calls expressing his love for her hubby, and carried on with him behind her back.
    She is suing the guy for alienation of affection.

    THIS YOUR BOAT, KID?  When the owners of a 52-foot yacht discovered it had been stolen from a marina in Tacoma, Wash., they assumed that it had been taken out to sea for drug smuggling or up to Canada to be dismantled and sold in pieces.
    But it turned out that it was taken by six not-too-bright young people who, instead of going far from the scene of the crime, spent the day sailing around and having fun on the $300,000 vessel and never left Puget Sound.
    The boat, equipped with a 40-foot-tall ``tuna tower,'' wasn't hard to spot. Deputies soon boarded the yacht and took everyone into custody.

    WWW.I AM HISTORY, AMIGO: Things are bad in Venezuela _ poverty is widespread, crime is rampant _ and entrepreneurs have come up with a way to cash in on this.
    They have set up a website for citizens who wish to seek a better life elsewhere. It's in Spanish, but the English translation is www.I_want_to_leave.com.

    WHATEVER YOU SAY, MA'AM: A woman who said she was from the prosecutor's office called an Arkansas jail, and ordered two young robbers released. So jail officials immediately turned them loose.
    The woman, it was discovered later, was not from the prosecutor's office at all. A new, more stringent, policy governing prisoner releases  has been instituted.

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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