E-Mail
Mike Pingree

Site design by
Mike Hanlon 

March 3, 2002     

TRY TO HELP PEOPLE AND WHAT HAPPENS? A judge in Sweden has ruled that a man who donated his sperm to two lesbians ten years ago so they could have children is the legal father and must pay child support now that the lesbians have parted ways.     
Igor Lehnberg says his now-former girlfriend talked him into it, and the lesbians promised that he would have no parental responsibilities. The judge didn't see it that way and ordered him to pay $280 a month to support the three kids.     

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT CONGENIAL! WHAM! A Kentucky college beauty pageant official roughly pulled aside a contestant at a dress rehearsal in a confrontation that erupted into a fistfight. The contestant was Miss Congeniality.    
There had been tension between the two ladies.     

SOMETHING WRONG, OFFICER? A 45-year-old man led Massachusetts police on a 100 mph chase in a stolen Cadillac which ended only because he ran out of gas.     
But his first remark to cops who then surrounded his car was a classic: "Hold on a minute, let me finish my beer."     
He then tossed the empty Budweiser can on the floor with the other empties.     
The officers hauled him out of the car and handcuffed him. He faces numerous charges.     

IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED: After an Ohio landlord committed suicide, it was revealed that he secretly videotaped about 650 people using the showers and bathrooms in the apartments he rented to them over the past five years.     
He shot himself as the cops were closing in.     

HE WAS PRETTY EASY TO SPOT: Loose fitting clothes and the requisite low-slung baggy pants worn by young people today may look fashionable, but shouldn't be the outfit of choice of those fleeing the police. 
A young man about to face trial for punching his girlfriend in the face broke away from deputies in Sanford, Fla., and ran, leaping over hedges and shrubs and losing not only his pants but his shoes in the process.     
He was caught three blocks away in his boxer shorts.

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

Top  |  Past Columns (The Archives)