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September 8, 2002

YOU'RE UNDER ARREST, SMOOTH TALKER: A 36-year old scam artist known as the "Casanova Con Man" was able to talk women into taking out second mortgages on their homes and emptying their bank accounts to invest in his fraudulent schemes.
He kept very busy at his work, compiling a 50-page rap sheet under 30 aliases and is a wanted man in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin.
Alas, his life of crime may be put on hold for a while. One policeman said that when he was finally arrested in Syracuse, N.Y., "cops across the country breathed a sigh of relief."    

ALMOST, BUT NICE TRY: Despite being handcuffed behind her back, a woman in the front seat of a Colorado sheriff's department sport utility vehicle got behind the wheel and managed to drive off at a high rate of speed. A mile down the road, she crashed into an oncoming vehicle.     

PLUS THE MARKSMANSHIP AWARD: A police officer spotted a man using a metal detector to look for artifacts he could steal from the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia. He ordered the man to freeze but he ran, so the cop shot him in the testicles.
The policeman was given a reward of a year's pay.     

NOW YOU REALLY CAN'T HAVE MY DAUGHTER: A man and five of his friends attacked a father who refused to let him marry his teenage daughter in a remote village in Bangladesh. They set upon him late at night, beat him unconscious and buried him in a makeshift grave.
When daylight came, his neighbors saw his foot sticking out of the ground and dug him up. He survived.     

THEY GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR: The Tennessee prison system now forbids inmates to possess nudie magazines. One of them is suing to overturn the police on the grounds that it violates his Constitutional rights. He is on death row.

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