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January 19, 2003     

I PROMISE NOT TO LOOK: To protest what she calls U.S. military aggression in Iraq, a California woman is urging women across the country to strip naked and pose for "peace photos" like she herself did last month. She is 72.     

NOT ONLY ROBBERY BUT LITTERING TOO: A man entered an Arkansas bank after hours by smashing the glass door, but, upon discovering that the money was not accessable, instead stole a fistful of Dum Dum lollipops that the bank gives away to the customers' children.     He started eating the treats as he strolled home, leaving a trail of wrappers to the trailer park he lived in for the police to follow.     
The cop who arrested the man, said only, "It's a classic."     

I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL: An Oregon man immediately fell in love with a woman he met at a New York gathering of aficionados of the vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows."      
They subsequently had a long-distance correspondence during which he sent her almost $100,000 she desperately needed to buy a home. But he became suspicious and hired a private eye who told him that he was the victim of a scam.     
So he flew to New York, took her out on a date, and returned to their hotel room where he shot her to death, police said.     

LARGE PIE FOR J. WENTWORTH BUCKINGHAM: Three men kidnapped a Connecticut multi-millionaire in hopes of making an easy $5 million, but got cold feet before the ransom was paid and let him go.     They were caught when they used their victim's credit to order a pizza.     

EXCUSE ME, 'OFFICER': For about a month, a man pretending to be a plainclothes cop came into the Starbucks in Bluffton, S.C., and flashed a police badge in order to get free coffee.     
It went OK until a real policeman saw him do it and arrested him.

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