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March 31, 2002     

PLUS YOU CAN ALWAYS BLOW ON IT: A judge in London threw out a claim of 36 plaintiffs who sued a McDonald's restaurant there because they claimed they were scalded by the fast-food chain's coffee.     
In his ruling, High Court Justice Richard Field said people should expect coffee to be hot.     

REPEAT AFTER ME: `I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE ...': A band of scam artists got money from Korean and Filipino immigrants by pretending to make them U.S. citizens.     
They set up bogus swearing-in ceremonies at a California home presided over by one of the con men wearing a judge's robe.     

WELL, WELL, WHAT HAVE WE HERE? A woman went to court in Vancouver, Wash., to testify that her boyfriend should not be jailed for failing to pay court fines because the check was in the mail.     
Then, a packet of methamphetamine fell out of her pocket. She was locked up for possession.     

CALL ME A BAD SPORT, WILL YOU? A fan at a children's soccer game in Southwick, England, got so angry that his team lost that he followed the opposition's coach into the parking lot and bit off part of his ear.    

CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL, CRASH! After a storm weakened a large birch tree in his garden, a 66-year-old man in Berlin decided to cut it down because of a possible danger to passers-by.    
The tree fell on his wife, killing her.

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