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April 28, 2002     

AHHHH, THAT BREEZE FEELS SOOOO GOOD: A 63-year-old man enjoys doing his gardening in the back yard of his Pennsylvania home on hot summer nights while wearing only a thong. Or, even better, just sitting on his back porch completely nude.     
A neighbor, who could see him 65 yards away, objected, and he was convicted of indecent exposure.     
But that conviction was overturned on the basis that his yard is private, and the offended neighbor lives too far away to object to what he does there.     

HE FELT IT WOULD CUT INTO HIS PROFITS: A schoolboy selling chrysanthemums from a stand in front of his home in Wonthaggi, Australia, to earn money for a skateboard has been ordered to shut down by the town council.     
It seems he failed to take out the mandatory public liability insurance policy for $2.7 million.     

I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN, YOUR EXCELLENCY: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has written a romance novel called "Zabibah and the King."     
The Iraqi media, which is controlled by Hussein, gave it rave reviews.     

OK STINKY, HANDS UP: Lewiston, Maine, police chased a domestic assault suspect into the woods where a skunk sprayed him in the face. This slowed him down enough for the officers to catch up with him.     
After the arrest, the police car had to be fumigated.    

IT MUST BE AGAINST SOME LAW: Two men rode horses through a supermarket in El Dorado, Ark.     
Since there is no specific law against this, they were arrested for disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

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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