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January 5, 2003

CONGRATULATIONS, DIRTBAG, NOW FREEZE! A Florida deputy sheriff read a newspaper article about the first baby born in 2003 in Hernando County, and realized that the father was a wanted man: Violation of probation. So he went to the hospital and arrested him.

IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU'LL LET ME GO: A Pennsylvania bank robber waited in line for a certain teller - his former girlfriend - and then handed her a bag and a note demanding money. She filled the bag and he left.
He apparently thought she wouldn't turn him in. That's where he was wrong. She told the cops everything.

A PRETTY GOOD CLUE: A man opened his wallet, took out a bill and asked the clerk in a Lantana, Fla., gas station to give him change. Then he pulled a gun and robbed the place. He fled, leaving the wallet on the counter. The arrest was swift.

WANTED: MAN WHO SMELLS LIKE MEXICAN FOOD: A man smashed open the cash register at a fast-food restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, and took the money. One employee tried to stop the robber by throwing a container of hot Nacho cheese at him, but to no avail. He escaped.

IT WORKED ONCE, LET'S TRY IT AGAIN: Two men managed to pass a phony $500 Traveler's Express money order at their hotel in Overland Park, Kan., using it to pay for their room and taking $365 in change. But then they got greedy.
When they repeated the transaction two nights later, the clerk decided to check and found that the money orders were stolen. One of the guys was arrested when he returned to claim a $20 room deposit. They are looking for the other one.

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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