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September 16, 2001

BUT HE'S SUCH A GOOD BOY: A young man talked his 88-year-old aunt into giving him $129,000 for cancer treatment. He doesn't really have cancer. She should, perhaps, have realized that the kid was bogus. 
At the time, he was on probation for stealing $3,600 from his grandmother in 1998.

A DETERMINED MAN: A man fleeing police near Syracuse, N.Y., crashed the stolen van he was driving, but immediately stole another vehicle and continued the chase. He crashed that one, too, and fled again. 
He was caught only after he tripped and fell.

HERE, CATCH! OOPS! A group of men in Zamboanga, Philippines, were drinking heavily and passing around a live hand grenade, puling out the pin and then putting it back again. Then someone dropped it. 
Four dead five wounded.

JUST THOUGHT I'D DROP IN: A woman patiently and painstakingly cut a hole in the wall of the closet in her Tokyo apartment into the closet of her next-door neighbor so she could steal video games and videotapes. It took about two weeks to make the hole big enough to fit through, and she covered her work with cardboard to keep her victim from catching on. 
She was ultimately caught anyway.

REMEMBER ME? WHAP! There must have been some simmering resentments during the election campaign of Trenton, N.J., Mayor Douglas H. Palmer. 
While Palmer was attending a funeral, a former campaign worker came up to him and punched him in the face.

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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