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August 19, 2001

WHAT'S THIS, CABLE? Thinking he was communicating with a 15-year-old California girl whom he had befriended on the Internet, a middle-aged Massachusetts teacher directed her to his website where she could see him via live-action camera cavorting about in the nude. 
He would soon discover, to his dismay, that it was the girl's mother on the other end of the line. 
His antics, which were of a masturbatory nature, lasted for almost three hours, enough time for the mother to call the cops, who came to her home and watched the show with her. 
Bay State authorities were alerted, and the man was arrested for open and gross lewdness.

IT'S ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING: Pregnant with another man's child, a woman hired a hitman to kill her 80-year-old millionaire husband because she feared he would cut her out of the will when he found out. 
She apparently was not very discreet about her plans, because an acquaintance had enough info to rat her out to the feds. 
The 40-year-old woman married the old geezer only three weeks after meeting him last year. 
Her attorney said that, due to her addiction to booze and painkillers, she wasn't thinking clearly when she tried to get her hubby whacked.

AT LEAST SHE PICKED UP THE CHECK: Suspecting that a California man had raped two women but unable to prove it, Det. Susan Hanna invited him to lunch at a fast-food restaurant. 
When he wasn't looking, she took the straw from his drink and later sent it to the lab for a DNA test on his saliva. It matched evidence from the crime scenes. He is now in prison for life.

PROVING THE CASE SHOULD BE PRETTY EASY: Three teen-age nitwits vandalized a whole bunch of cars with a baseball bat in Holyoke, Mass. They probably would have gotten away with it if they hadn't made a videotape for their friends of themselves talking about it. 
They are seen holding up the bat and saying things like, "Man, I really broke that last window, didn't I? That was a grand slam.'' 
The tape can currently be seen in the police evidence room.

CHOMP! OUCH! CHOMP! OW! A man arrested for dealing crack cocaine attempted to chew off his fingerprints in an effort to keep police from learning his identity. It didn't work. 
The cops were still able to fingerprint him and so learn his real name and that there were warrants out for his arrest from another state. 
West Bridgewater, Mass., Police Sgt. Victor Flaherty said, "Your prints are pretty deep.''

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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