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October 28, 2001

HONEY, I HATE TO COMPLAIN, BUT ...: Andrew Nyoka told a court in Zambia that he had a good reason for leaving his wife, Catherine for another woman: She served him a cup of tea that had a frog in it. He didn't say whether she did this on purpose or had simply not noticed the frog when she poured the tea. 
In any event, the judge granted a divorce because the marriage was clearly beyond saving.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: A New Jersey man who murdered a woman during a carjacking has appealed his conviction because his mother was having sex with his lawyer during his trial five years ago. He says his attorney wanted to break up with the mother before his wife found out, and so got mom to talk him into pleading guilty. Once the case ended, so did the affair. 
A hearing on the matter has been ordered.

SO THEY COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN NOISIER: A landlord evicted the tenants from a third-floor apartment in Waterbury, Conn., because they were making too much noise. 
Workers cleaning the place out sometime later found a three-foot-long anti-tank missile in the apartment.

SO, WHERE'S YOUR GUN? A deputy sheriff in Doylestown, Pa., had a crack cocaine habit so bad that used his police-issue credit card to buy drugs and gave his gun to a drug dealer to buy more. 
He was fired and arrested.

THOSE ZANY COLLEGE KIDS: Police in Boulder, Colo., have banned couches from being put in yards and on front porches, because 103 of them have been set afire in the past five years.
 It is not seen as coincidental that most of the couch fires have taken place in the University Hill neighborhood near the University of Colorado.

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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