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May 5, 2002     

ROB FROM THE RICH AND GIVE TO MY FRIENDS: While out on a one-day furlough, an prison inmate in Aranjuez, Spain, robbed a bank of $230,000, bought $7,000 worth of money orders (signing them "Robin Hood") and mailed them to his fellow prisoners before returning to the lockup.     
When the police found out that his jailhouse nickname was Robin Hood, they followed him on his next furlough. They arrested him at the Post Office where he was filling out more money order forms.     

MODESTY ABOVE ALL, NOW LIFT UP YOUR SKIRT! As adults and male students looked on, a female vice principal looked under the skirts of the girls at the door of a high school dance in San Diego to make sure they weren't wearing thong underwear. Only fat girls escaped scrutiny.     The episode caused an uproar and made national headlines. 
Lawsuits are threatened.     

TEACHER'S PET: A 33-year-old California high school science teacher fled with her 15-year-old student when police sought to ask her about their alleged sexual affair.     
The woman and the high school freshman were arrested three days later in Las Vegas.     

WE DON'T KNOW THEM CITY FOLK'S WAYS: The two guys who got drunk and rode their horses through an El Dorado, Ark., supermarket appeared in court where they pleaded guilty to public intoxication and expressed remorse for their tomfoolery. 
In their condition, one said, "We shouldn't have been uptown."    

THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS: Church officials in Tampa, Fla., faced a moral dilemma when they found out that some of their donated toys came from the Deja Vu strip club where the dancers flashed their breasts for patrons to entice them to participate in the charity drive.     
In the end, the church -- while not condoning the way they were collected -- accepted the gifts.

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