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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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November 11, 2001 WHO, ME? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING: A man robbed the U.S Bank in
Longview, Wash., and, instead of making his getaway, decided to blend in
with the local scene, pretending nonchalance. It didn't work. He
strolled from the bank to a convenience store where he bought a beer and
then sat drinking it on a park bench a short distance from the police
station. A police sergeant looked out the window and immediately
realized that the guy fit the description of the robber. MOVIN' ON UP: Despite the fact that they have no money, no
prospects and live in an Indiana homeless shelter, a 22-year-old woman
and her 30-year-old boyfriend got married. JUST TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING: Salesmen for undertakers in the
Philippines have been known to loiter outside the hospital rooms of
dying patients in order to sell funeral packages to the relatives when
the inevitable happens. OH NO, IT BELONGS TO US NOW: A man defrauded the First Utah
Bank of $12.9 million and used $4.3 million of it to pay his back taxes.
The man was caught, and the bank asked the Internal Revenue Service to
give back the money. AN EXPENSIVE OUTBURST: A man tried to evade a three-dollar cab
fare in Szczecin, Poland, by running from the taxi - with the driver in
hot pursuit - climbing a tree and then throwing bananas from his
shopping bag at the crowd that soon gathered. Firefighters and a police
psychiatrist came and talked him down after a two-hour standoff. Mike Pingree
writes another Looking Glass column
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