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July 7, 2002     

OK THEN, SLEEP WELL: A New Hampshire woman tried to hire her former boyfriend to kill her husband, but the ex wore a wire to record their conversation for the cops, who arrested her.     
Despite evidence that she wanted him dead, her loving hubby paid her bail and took her home with him.     
Before releasing her, the judge asked the husband if he feared for his personal safety. He said he didn't.     

COULDN'T GET A SITTER? A man broke into his neighbor's house in South Fork, Pa., to steal a cashbox, and he brought his two toddlers with him, police say.     
But he claims he was trying to prevent a burglary when the homeowner arrived while everyone was still in his domicile.     
Police said they considered the suspect's scenario "very unlikely."     

AT LAST, VINDICATION! Prosecutors say a man scammed a retired Minnesota elementary school principal out of $395,000 she entrusted to him, spending the money on living expenses, and such items as a houseboat, ski boat and motorcycle, returning only $17,000 to her.     
Just as he was about to go on trial years after the alleged offense, the lady died. The charges were dismisssed.     

NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH: The health inspector who examines oversees the sanitary conditions at the restaurants in Saddle Brook, N.J., has been eating for free at these establishments for years, prosecutors claim.     
Police arrested him in 2001 for eating for free since 1993.     

YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MY WHAT? As a joke, a Florida radio personality, pretending to be a doctor, called a woman while on the air and told her that her ex-boyfriend had probably given her a sexually transmitted disease.     
Then he started to ask about her sexual history, and she answered the questions until they became graphic and impertinent. Then she heard laughter in the background and realized it was a hoax.     
She has filed a lawsuit.

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