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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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February 9, 2003 THIS WON'T LOOK GOOD ON THEIR RECORD: A 16-year-old California
boy, who was on probation for burglary, broke into a state facility and
stole a probation officer's uniform and a county car. Then he drove to
the homes of 11 other teens on probation and told their parents he was
taking their kids to an amusement park as a reward for good behavior.
(At one point he and the others returned to the probation office to
steal another county car.) SHE'S HAVIN' MY BABY ... OR IS SHE? A pregnant, unwed,
Wisconsin woman offered her baby for adoption upon birth to a childless
woman for a fee. She also sold the adoption rights to at least one other
woman. THINK YOU SCARE ME? In an effort to keep the thousands of seagulls from loitering on their rooftop, the owners of a restaurant near the harbor in Ventura, Calif., installed fake, foot-tall owls up there. Alas, the gulls didn't fall for it at all, and now treat the phony birds with contempt. "Some of the gulls will actually go up to the owls and peck at them," one owner said. SO, HAVE YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON? The town president of
Cicero, Ill., was convicted of swindling the town out of $12 million,
and then using the money to go on massive gambling binges. She was
ordered to pay restitution and to report for her eight-year prison
sentence in the spring. MISTAKE NUMBER ONE: A man committed a robbery and kidnapped a
woman. He then tried to carjack a van in at a Los Angeles gas station,
not knowing that the young men inside were members of a college judo
team from Florida in town to teach a self-defense class. There was
fight, but it didn't last long.
Mike Pingree
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