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March 17, 2002     

THAT'S SOME PLEA BARGAIN: An 18-year-old Muslim woman is being held in a Nigerian jail awaiting trial for having sex outside marriage which resulted in a child.     
She told authorities that she had been married for two years but has been divorced for a year. That could make a big difference in her sentence.     
If she were married, she would be charged with adultery and be stoned to death if convicted. Since she is not married, it's only fornication. 100 lashes.    

DEATH TO WEIRDOES! A seventh-grade student in Boulder, Colo., wrote a hit list of people he wanted to kill. He targeted people who "irked" him or "looked weird."     
He was given a ticket and sent home to his parents.     

GO BACK, IT'S A TRAP! Dozens of pigeons and seagulls have been roosting on the courthouse in Everett, Wash., and have been driving the employees crazy by making dive-bombing runs at them as they at lunch on the lawn. The birds have also been leaving unmistakable evidence of their presence splattered all around the building.     
To fix the problem, the authorities have installed a device that broadcasts shrieking bird distress calls over loudspeakers.     

THEY CAME IN TOGETHER; THEY WENT OUT TOGETHER: Two 71-year-old twin brothers were killed in separate accidents in western Finland when the bicycles they were riding were hit by trucks two hours and a half-mile apart on the same road.     

HOW DID THEY KNOW!? Would-be robbers made their way through the sewer system of Naples, Italy, and entered the Banco di Roma from underneath with the intention of robbing it.     
Since the Banco di Roma was robbed via the same method a month earlier, guards were on alert, something these nitwits did not anticipate. They had to flee back down their hole when police opened fire.

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