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May 26, 2002

IN FACT, HE DIDN'T COMPLAIN AT ALL: A 43-year-old New Jersey teacher who had sex with one of her seventh-grade students for six months was given probation instead of jail time.
The judge said the boy, age 13, suffered no ill effects from the liaison.

A MOST UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCE: A husband and wife met up at a bar in Burns, N.Y., where they drank until 1:30 a.m. and then headed for home in separate cars.
Once on the road, the husband drove over an embankment, so he got out to flag down his wife who was following him. She ran him over. He is dead. She has been charged with drunken driving.

A PRETTY SWEET DEAL: A counselor at a Pennsylvania woman's prison traded cigarettes to inmates who would expose their breasts, write him sexy letters or perform oral sex on him. He is looking at a long prison sentence.

BUT HONEY, I THOUGHT OUR VOWS MEANT SOMETHING: After committing an armed robbery at a motel in Minnesota, a man and a woman got married so they couldn't be forced to testify against each other.
But when the man was charged with killing a witness, his wife decided to take the stand. He was convicted.

USE THIS GIFT AT YOUR OWN RISK: Consumer Reports magazine, which tests and reports on products in the marketplace, gave flashlights as gifts to new subscribers, which, it was later discovered, tend to overheat and start fires.
Federal regulators suggested that recipients remove the batteries and throw the flashlights away.

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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