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June 30, 2002     

PAY UP OR I'M DEAD .... I MEAN 'HE'S' DEAD: The parents of a Lyndeborough, N.H., man missing for a month received emails that their son had been kidnapped and was being tortured and would be killed unless they paid a $300,000 ransom.     
A trace of the emails led the FBI to Nebraska, where it turned out that the son himself was the one who sent them. He was arrested.     

HOW ABOUT 'THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED PERSON OF NOTRE DAME'? Oddsocks Productions, a theater company in touring England, has removed the word "hunchback" from the title of the play "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." There was great fear someone would be offended.     
"Bellringer" has been substituted.     

IT WAS KNOWN AS THE 'CHECKING-YOUR-OIL' STATUTE: Lithuania has abolished a law that required women to undergo gynecological examinations to get driver's licenses.     

OH, SO THAT'S WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS: During an examination for a kidney infection, a 29-year-old Davenport, Iowa, woman discovered she was seven months pregnant. She gave birth three days later.  

WHERE THE HECK AM I? An eagle named Elsie disappeared from The British School of Falconry in southern Vermont while on her daily flight, apparently because strong winds may have blown her so far north that she is having trouble finding her way back.     
People in the region are asked to be on the lookout for the 19-year-old chestnut-brown bird with a 6-foot wingspan and wearing a leather strap and bell on each leg.

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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