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August 25, 2002     

A PATTERN SEEMS TO BE EMERGING: A Maryland woman's husband was shot to death in 1974, and she collected $16,000 from his life insurance policy despite the fact that she and her boyfriend were suspected in the killing.     
She married the boyfriend and he was shot to death in 1990. This time, she collected $50,000 in insurance money, though she and her new boyfriend were suspected in that murder.     
Anyhow, she married this boyfriend, and guess what happened to him. She collected $96,000 in insurance money this time.     
Authorities said she had never gone to jail because she intimidated witnesses with voodoo. She was finally convicted of mail fraud this month because of the insurance payments.     

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN' AT, WHEEL BOY!? A Vermont lawyer was ordered not to drink alcohol and stay out of bars after a judge determined that he tends to get into fights outside them. The attorney had been convicted of hitting a man in a wheelchair in front of a Burlington watering hole.      
The judge said the lawyer "seems to be an angry drunk."  

I'M, UH, HOLDING IT FOR A FRIEND: A Canadian man seemed very nervous when he was pulled over for speeding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, so the cops searched his car and found two duffel bags containing $307,000 in the trunk.     
He offered no credible explanation as to whose money it was or what he was doing with it, but a police dog indicated it had been around drugs.     
In the end, the cops didn't give him a ticket but also confiscated the money. He is suing to get it back.     

MOVE WHEN I SAY MOVE: Bloomington, Ill., police finally charged a driver who crashed his car in February with drunk driving, driving without a license, improper lane usage and failure to wear a seat belt.     
The thing is, the guy had been killed in the accident.     

IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME, YOUR HONOR: A 71-year-old Florida businessman said he got amnesia in a traffic accident and could not remember cheating on his taxes.     
He decided to plead guilty anyway, and, when the judge asked him who he could admit to something he couldn't remember, he said, "My memory has been refreshed."     
Doctors concluded the amnesia was a hoax.

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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