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November 3, 2002     

SACRE BLEU! ZIS IS, HOW YOU SAY, AN OUTRAGE! As an Indiana airport screener attempted to scan the upper torso of a 56-year-old French woman with a metal detector, the woman kept putting her hands up inside her sweater over her breasts, forcing the screener to scan her repeatedly.     
The woman finally got mad and stripped to the waist to show her displeasure. Then she resisted arrest when the police came for her and fell to the floor, refusing to get up. It was quite a scene.     

BANG! OUCH! Police said a man charged with murder in Brockton, Mass., shot his victim in the head and managed to wound himself in the side with the same bullet.     
This is because he had the other man in a headlock when he shot him.     

IT WAS INEVITABLE, MAN: A drunk led police on a very slow-speed chase through Green Bay, Wisc., and then drove directly to the county jail's parking lot where he smoked a cigarette before getting out of his vehicle and lying face down on the ground.      
He explained later that he knew that he was going to be arrested, so why fight it.     

ANYONE SEEN TRIGGER AND CHAMPION? The commander of the Philadelphia Police Department's mounted unit sold two horses to a slaughterhouse for $1,100 - even though they were perfectly healthy - and pocketed the money, the district attorney says.     

A MIGHTY BIG WITHDRAWAL: A thief in Melbourne, Australia, stole an Automated Teller Machine, money and all, from a public market place with a forklift in broad daylight.     
He told the few people who challenged him that he was removing it for servicing.

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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