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July 28, 2002     

OK, ARE YOU SCARED NOW? ARE YOU!!? A middle-aged couple got into a heated argument while drinking at the bar of their Fort Myers Beach, Fla., hotel and continued the fight in their fifth-floor room.     
Once there, police say, the husband dangled the wife from the balcony by her ankles and then dropped her to her death in the sand below. He was charged with murder.     

HI! WANT SOME COOKIES? A young man, dressed to resemble country star Dolly Parton in a big, blond wig and red skirt, was going door-to-door in Manchester, Conn., taking orders for Girl Scout cookies. Someone called the cops who discovered the fellow was taking part in a summer camp initiation.     
A camp counselor apologized and told the police he would put a stop to it.     

PRESS 'TWO' WHEN HEART ATTACK BEGINS: The Bank of America sent a 71-year-old New Mexico woman a letter saying that her assets were being frozen beacause she was dead.     
She called to inform the bank that she is alive but this turned into an hours-long ordeal of responding to automated phone messages. The stress caused her to be hospitalized with chest pains.     
She said later, "There was no message that said, 'Press 'one' if you have been declared deceased and your assets frozen'."     

GO VAGS! Because of the unfortunate association with the female genitalia, Beaver College in Glenside, Pa. changed its name to Arcadia University. As a result, enrollment has gone up.     

HE HAD A VERY GOOD WORK ETHIC: Police arrested a 16-year-old Texas boy for masterminding 600 break-ins of homes and cars carried out by his gang made up mostly of other teens.     
One cop said it would normally take an older burglar an entire career to pull off so many capers.

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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