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February 2, 2003

LET'S SEE, MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY: An armored car was found abandoned in San Diego after its last pickup, and $100,000 was missing. The FBI found the money in Mexico the next day. They also found the driver in Mexico. Police are currently putting two and two together.

HE WON'T NEED MONEY WHERE HE'S GOING: Thieves entered a funeral home in Mericourt, France, in the dead of night, and stole some furniture and stereo equipment. Before they left, they frisked the corpse of a 78-year-old man to see is he had any money on him. He didn't.

BUT WE WERE JUST EXPRESSING OUR LOVE: A 40-year-old Egyptian man and his wife, in her 20s, made graphic nudie photos and tapes of themselves in action and posted them on the Internet. This is frowned upon in Egypt. The couple will be in jail for the next six months.

ANYTHING TO KEEP THE PEACE, DEAR: A couple in Haifa, Israel, came to the verge of divorce over the recent national elections, so they brought their dispute to a rabbinical court. It seems the husband wanted to vote for the right-wing Likud party, but she said she would vote for the center-left Labor Party.
If she did that, he said, he would divorce her. The rabbis settled it by advising her not to vote. So she didn't. It wouldn't have made any difference. Her party lost big.

NO WONDER THERE'S NO TOURIST INDUSTRY IN BAN TAN: This year, storks migrated south to the village of Ban Tan, Thailand, in such huge numbers that they have produced mountains of droppings and are making life there intolerable.
Citizens have been forced to wear face masks and to seal their doors and windows to protect themselves from the towering stench. They are not allow to kill the birds because they are a protected species.

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