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December 23, 2001

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME: Tammy Felbaum, 43, who used to be a man, lost her sixth husband to a botched castration operation in their Butler, Pa., trailer.
She claimed he performed the operation on himself to prove he wouldn't cheat on her. But prosecutors said it was Tammy's doing, a repeat of an operation she performed on herself before receiving a sex-change. 
Tam will be going to jail soon for involuntary manslaughter and unauthorized practice of medicine.

NEED A RIDE, DEAR? A woman was caught stealing $900 worth of clothes from the Dadeland Mall in Miami, but managed to slip out of her handcuffs and escape from security guards. 
She ran out of the mall and snuck into an open car in the parking lot, not realizing it belonged to a married couple of police officers, who were loading the trunk with their purchases.

GULP! THIS TASTES FUNNY: A Norwegian woman slipped a gold ring into her boyfriend's porridge at a Christmas party as a unique way to propose marriage to him. Alas, he swallowed it. 
They are waiting for the ring to reappear naturally.

WELL, HE DIDN'T NEED IT ANY MORE: According to a credit card receipt, a Maryland man purchased gasoline and auto parts the day after he died.
This sparked curiosity among law enforcement officials who determined that a policeman, sent to the man's apartment, found him dead and stole his credit card.

WHO YOU CALLIN' IRRATIONAL!? An inmate at the Autry State Prison in Georgia felt that his chicken dinner was not properly cooked and said so in no uncertain terms. 
His vociferous complaints sparked a two-hour inmate uprising which ended only after officials locked down the entire prison population. 
"These are tough people. They're not in prison for making rational and evenhanded decisions," a spokesman said.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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