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December 1, 2002

OH MY! HOW DID THAT GET IN THERE? A former pastor turned businessman was giving a slide show presentation at work when he accidentally flashed some child porn on the screen from an extensive collection he had allegedly stored in his laptop computer.     
He blamed a virus, but the cops didn't buy it. He was fired and arrested.

HEY, I WAS JUST BEING PHILOSOPHICAL! Dr. Mohammad Al-Fallouji, a London surgeon, has earned a well-deserved reputation as bizarre. He groped female colleagues, maligned junior doctors, tried to date a young patient without her parents finding out and generally acted like "a walking terror in a white coat."     
The final straw came when he diagnosed a patient with cancer, telling him "You have cancer, I have asthma, we all have to die some time." He has been suspended from medical practice.     

SOMETIMES, A MAN'S GOTTA DO WHAT A MAN'S GOTTA DO: A squirrel apparently went crazy and started attacking people in Knutsford, England, terrorizing the town to the extent that the people wouldn't let their kids out to play.     
After the little beast bit his granddaughter, a 61-year-old school caretaker tracked him to a wooded area and shot the rodent just as it was about to attack him. The man has been hailed as a local hero.

SO, YOU SEE, HE REALLY WAS CRAZY: A severely psychotic man was ordered executed for a 1986 Georgia murder. But he was so crazy (he thought, among other things actress Sigourney Weaver was God) that his death sentence was later commuted to life in prison.     
He hanged himself in his cell.

A LAW-AND-ORDER KIND OF TOWN: To publicly humiliate five young petty criminals, a court in Tehran ordered them paraded through the neighborhood on donkeys facing backward. Afterwards, they were publicly whipped.

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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