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October 27, 2002

THE STOLEN-CAR CAPITAL OF CANADA: Two Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen went for their lunch break at a sandwich shop in Surrey, British Columbia where they spotted a stolen car outside. They followed it and arrested the driver.
They went back to the restaurant where they saw a well-known car thief getting out of a stolen pickup truck. They arrested him.
They finally got inside the sandwich shop, but one of them looked out the window and saw two suspicious-looking men carrying golf bag into a nearby pawn shop. The policemen checked and found their car was stolen too.

NOW THAT'S A PUBLIC SERVANT: Instead of delivering junk mail to the people on his route, a Colorado postman stored tons of it in his shed and dumped tons more in landfill. Nobody complained.

IS THAT AS FAST AS YOU CAN GO? A robber ran out of a bank in Davenport, Iowa, just as a former University of Iowa track athlete was passing by. Though he was dressed in a business suit, the ex-track star gave chase and had no problem staying with the robber who finally ran into the arms of a policeman on patrol in his cruiser.

DOC, I'M HAVING TROUBLE THSPEAKING: A California man was shot in the face and was taken to the hospital where he initially refused medical treatment.
He later changed his mind and returned there to have the bullet removed from his tongue.

THEY'RE PLAYING MY SONG: A man pretending to be a police detective frisked two teenagers in a Singapore park and stole a cell phone belonging to one of them. He didn't know that the kid had programmed in an unusual song played as the phone's ring.
A short time later, the victim heard the tune and discovered that the man with the phone had just bought it from the thief who was still nearby. Arrests resulted.

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