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May 12, 2002     

I GUESS YOU HAD TO BE THERE: Playing a little prank, a Maine high school student on a field trip put a sign in the bus' rear window that said, "Help, we've been kidnapped."     
A motorist called the cops, and, as the driver was parking the vehicle after dropping off the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, eight police cars surrounded him.     
The matter was soon cleared up and the prankster was suspended for 10 days and barred from riding school buses until further notice.     

NOW I CAN MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE: A plumber was still seething three years later about a story in the Kernersville, N.C., News that, he claims, implied he stole $440 while working in a customer's home and caused the ruination of his business.     
So he finally got into his pickup truck and rammed it through the front of the newspaper office. He was arrested a short distance away, and showed no remorse.     

THE LOCATION WAS JUST SO CONVENIENT: Faced with mounting debts, a high school history teacher robbed the Farmers & Mechanic Bank in Mount Laurel, N.J., three times, police say.     
Indicating his inexperience in criminal enterprise, the alleged perpetrator is a customer at the bank which is less than a mile from his home. He wore a mask, but the cops said a teller recognized his distinctive voice.     

IT'S STOLEN!? YOU'RE KIDDING ME, OFFICER! An 8-year-old boy in Temple Terrace, Fla., missed his bus so he drove the mile and a half to the Riverhills Elementary School in a stolen car.     
The car - a 2002 Ford Focus - has been parked in his driveway. His uncle taught him how to drive it during the previous week. The police are seeking an explanation from the uncle, who is in their custody.     

OOPS! During a debate featuring candidates for governor of Massachusetts, Steve Grossman asserted that most city politicians are so out of touch with voters they don't even know how to spell the word "accountability."     
In response, his opponent, Shannon O'Brien, jokingly stood up to prove that she could spell the word. She spelled it wrong.

 

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