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January 13, 2002

NOT A GAL TO BE TRIFLED WITH: A 55-year-old Connecticut woman became more and more irate that someone was stealing the newspaper from her driveway every morning. 
So she and her daughter-in-law did a pre-dawn stakeout from her neighbor's yard. At 6:12 a.m., a white van pulled up. A man got out, swiped the paper and drove off. The two women gave chase in their car. They blew the horn and flashed the lights, but the guy wouldn't pull over. They videotaped his license plate, and the cops charged him with sixth-degree larceny. 
The police were said to be very impressed with the woman's determination.

HEH! HEH! THE COAST MUST BE CLEAR BY NOW: A man stopped by police after midnight in Lexington, Ky., really did not want to be taken into custody. After arousing suspicion by giving several different aliases and birth dates, he fled into a nearby swamp where he eluded the cops and their dogs for more than four hours. 
He was caught after he exited the swamp near a Denny's restaurant.

THIS TIME WE MEAN BUSINESS: A 72-year-old Florida grandmother was arrested for dealing marijuana from her home - for the third time. She has been put on probation twice previously - in 1995 and 1999 - and police are tired of it. 
One said, "Maybe a little jail time will send a stronger message to her, because probation isn't working."

DOWN, DOGGIE, DOW ... ARGHHH! A man went out into the back yard of his Colorado Springs home where he saw his little Scottie in a fracas with another dog. A really big dog. 
It was only after he jumped on the back of the really big dog that he realized it was a mountain lion. After a brief struggle, it ran away.

 BUT THE GUYS SAID THEY WERE SORRY, YOUR HONOR: In separate cases, two woman asked a Kentucky judge to issue emergency protective orders against the men who were abusing them to force the men to stay away from them. In less than two weeks, however, both of them returned to the men. 
The angry judge lectured the women harshly and fined them both for contempt of court. They were very surprised.

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