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February 24, 2002    

IF IT'S NOT YOU AND IT'S NOT ME, THEN WHO? Boots and Bandit, 18-month-old cats , have learned to flush the toilet of their home in Whitewater, Wis.     
The couple that owns them discovered this when they were surprised to hear the unmistakable sound coming from the bathroom while the wife was in the kitchen and the husband in the living room.     

SACRE BLEU, WHAT A SURPRISE! French Police escorted a prisoner to Toulouse to visit his sick mother and then left him in her home while they went to lunch even though he had tried to escape before. You see, the lunch hour is considered sacrosanct in France.     
But not to this guy. When the policemen returned, he was gone.     

SO LONG, SUCKERS, OOPS! A coyote being chased off the runway at Portland International Airport hopped a nearby train. 
Unfortunately, the train was pulling into the station, not out, so he was soon captured.     

ALL THAT TROUBLE AND FOR WHAT? A man crashed his car into the entryway of the High Plains National Bank in Wiggins, Colo., before dawn and broke open the cash machine.     
He was apparently unaware that the machine was brand new and wasn't even plugged in. It contained no money.     

HERE I COME, MY LOVE ... SQUISH! Lovesick toads were getting run over by the hundreds as they crossed a heavily-trafficked woodland road to get back to their breeding pond in Shaldon, England, every February.     
So local villagers built a metal ramp to make their journey safer. Problem solved.

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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