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August 11, 2002

HE LOOKED OK TO ME, OFFICER: An 83-year-old man died sitting in a recliner in his mobile home in Ocala, Fla. Police said the woman who took care of him covered him up with a blanket and spent the next year looting his bank accounts.
Acting on a tip, police discovered the mummified body and arrested her.

HELLO, OFFICER, HOBO JIM HERE: Two men smashed through the front window of a store in Lincoln, Neb., and were making off with 30 cartons of cigarettes when a homeless man spotted them and called the police - on his cellular phone.
Police Chief Tom Casady said, "It just goes to show you how much our culture has changed."

HE'D ALWAYS THOUGHT OF HIMSELF AS PLUMP, UNTIL NOW: A 660-pound man took ill and had to be removed from his Stuttgart, Germany apartment through the window and lowered to the roof of a fire truck by a crane.
It took 16 firemen to do the job.     

EVERYONE'S A CRITIC: Neighbors called the cops when they heard ungodly screams coming from an apartment in Offenbach, Germany, but it turned out to be a 76-year-old woman practicing her yodeling.
Police said in a statement, "The officers weren't able to judge whether the neighbors were unfamiliar with Bavarian folk music or whether the lady still requires a lot of practice."

NOW THEY CAN DATE OTHER BIRDS TOO! To get revenge on her boyfriend for dumping her, a woman in Bredene, Belgium, released 350 of the bird-loving man's canaries from his aviaries and watched in glee as they took to the skies.

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