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October 13, 2002     

OH SURE, WE'LL HELP YOU: Two armed men stormed into a Pizza Hut restaurant in Boston, tied up the employees and waited for the time-delayed safe to open. But it turned into a hostage situation when the cops closed in.     
The hapless robbers then tied themselves up with the hostages and pleaded with them to pretend they had left and that only hostages remained behind. They real hostages immediately turned them in.   

YOU MIGHT CALL THEM GUARD BEES: A man set up a marijuana-growing operation in his barn in Kirkville, N.Y., and surrounded it with beehives to protect it, police said.     
Undeterred, state troopers raided the place and arrested him.     

RACIST? WHO, US? A group holding an anti-racism conference in Barbados threw out all the white people at the meeting.     

SUDDENLY, I FEEL HAPPY: A sofa filled with cocaine was transported from Texas to New York in a U-Hail trailer attached to a pickup truck, and then the vehicle, trailer and sofa was abandoned on a Manhattan street where it sat for more than two months.     
Sanitation workers - finally called in to dispose of the sofa - discovered the coke when a cloud of powder worth millions of dollars spewed forth when they heaved it into the trash truck.     

ONE DETERMINED DRUNK DRIVER: A man was stopped for speeding and drunk driving in Sweden as he drove home to Norway, but police only confiscated his drivers license and let him go.     
So he continued his drive and was stopped again. Police released him, and he, once again continued to drive.     
He was stopped and arrested a third time. This time the police seized his car.

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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