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April 21, 2002     

AND FOR DESSERT: LAWSUITS FLAMBÉ: Seeking to imitate a flaming bar stunt often seen in Acapulco, bartenders at a college hangout in Iowa City poured a stream of rum down the bar and set it on fire.     
To everyone's surprise, six people were burned. A team of attorneys rushed to the scene.     

IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? A man fooled a couple at a Florida convenience store into thinking the Baby Ruth candy bar in his pocket was a gun by gesturing toward them with it and then stole their car. He was arrested a short time later.     

I`VE GOT TO HANG UP NOW, HON: Police stormed the home of a robbery suspect's girlfriend in Watsonville, Calif., but he fled through a back window. While the cops were still in the house, the guy telephoned from a nearby phone booth.     
They noted the number on the woman's caller ID box, determined where the call was coming from, then went there and arrested him.     

SHE LIKES ME! NO, SHE LIKES ME! There have been a series of violent brawls in Tunceli, Turkey, involving men fighting over the waitresses at the beer halls.     
Residents say the flirting waitresses sparked jealousy among customers that caused a riot that left two men dead.     

ZEN, ZEY RAN AWAY: A bus driver in Marseilles, France, told police that two men boarded his bus in a poor neighborhood, threw gasoline on him and set him on fire.     
The cops were skeptical as the man suffered no burns, which he explained by claiming he quickly tore off his flaming jacket.     
Finally, he admitted he made the whole thing up to obtain a transfer to a better route.

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