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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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December 2, 2001 NOW THAT'S A WAR STORY: Infantryman Donald Morehouse was shot
in the chest during the Korean War, and was later told by doctors that
the bullet just missed his heart. Nearly 50 years later, surgeons doing
a heart bypass operation discovered that the bullet didn't miss his
heart at all, but went through it so cleanly that the wound immediately
closed itself. Morehouse, who had to walk three miles to safety after
being wounded, was surprised that he had come so close to death. OK PAL, TIME TO VACATE THE PREMISES: A man bought a
Pennsylvania condominium, sight unseen, at a sheriff's auction and then
went to inspect the property. In the living room, he found the dead body
of the previous owner. The deceased, described as a kind of a hermit who
taped plastic over the inside of the windows, had been lying there for
about three years. I HARDLY RECOGNIZE YOU: Being sentenced to two years in an
Oregon prison for stealing from her employer may be the best thing that
could have happened to Edna Lue Mitchell. She weighs 648 pounds. While
investigating her crime, police searched her home and found ``chunks of
chocolate all over the place,'' but now she's geting exercise and three
square meals a day. TRY TO ACT MORE NATURAL: A 32-year-old woman posed a teenage
high school student in order to collect aid from the state of
Washington. She was convicted of felony theft for this. NO TAKE MONEY! GO GET JOB! Two masked bandits who tried to rob
a mom-and-pop convenience store in Augusta, Ga., never expected mom and
pop to attack them. Byung Hui Kwon beat one of the would-be robbers over
the head with a golf club while her husband, Sim Chong, hit the other
with a mop until they fled. Mike Pingree
writes another Looking Glass column
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