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September 1, 2002     

COULD HAVE FOOLED ME: A 32-year-old former Minneapolis police officer hooked up with a couple of young ladies on a chat line an wound up having some sexual encounters with one of them. She said she was 18. She wasn't. She was 13.     
As a result, he was hauled before the bar of justice, but the Court of Appeals dismissed a charge of soliciting because the girl's words and conduct led to the sexual activity.     

OK GOLDILOCKS, RISE AND SHINE: A man entered his home in Hancock County, Maine, to find that a drunk had broken in and fell asleep wearing a pair of pink panties belonging to the homeowner's daughter.     Upon being rudely awakened, the startled interloper fled into the nearby woods where he was later arrested still clad in the scanties.     

CAREFULLY PLANNED AND EXECUTED: Three men stole an Automatic Teller Machine from a restaurant in Chicago. They later discovered that the ATM had been out of service for two years and contained no money.     

SO, IS THIS YOURS TOO? A man went to the police in Lopatcong Township, N.J., to report that his fannypack stolen and wound up arrested himself.     
A Good Samaritan found it and turned it in. The police looked through it and found some marijuana, so the arrest followed.     

NO, THAT'S ARM ... THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW: A group of Austrian policemen from the nation's most elite unit posed nude with strategically placed guns, handcuffs and nightsticks.     
They have been reassigned to routine street patrol.

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