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December 15, 2002

IT WAS ALL PERFECTLY INNOCENT, OFFICER: The Fire Department had to rescue a 16-year-old boy who became stuck in the chimney of a home in San Ysidro, Calif., in the dead of night.     
When police asked him what had happened, he said he had been up on the roof, uh, stargazing, yeah, that's it, stargazing, when he, uh, fell into the chimney, yeah, that's the ticket.     
He was arrested.

THIS OUGHT TO IMPROVE FAMILY RELATIONS: Because they discouraged shoppers, the city of Merrill, Wisc., took down the parking meters on Main Street and sold them for $50 apiece.     
One guy bought one and installed it in his driveway where his in-laws park.

PLEASE FON'T FORGET ME: A love-sick teenager wanted to say goodbye to his girlfriend before she flew from Fiji to Australia, but her parents were seeing her off at the Nausori Airport terminal and they disapproved of the relationship.     
So he hopped a fence and ran out onto the runway toward her plane.     
Security officers stopped him before he could be sucked into the engines.

OOPS! A would-be thief driving a crane attempted to use it to rip out an ATM in a Sydney, Australia, office building.     
But he accidentally demolished the building, leaving the ATM intact.

YOU CALL THIS REVENGE? When his live-in girlfriend was fired from her job at a radio station in Norway, a man got revenge on his woman's ex-boss.     
He placed a sex ad in the female boss' name. She was very surprised when she got 50 offers of "secret love affairs" in two days.

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