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February 23, 2003

OH COME ON, PULL OVER: After an intoxicated man ran his pickup truck into a ditch near a farm in western Minnesota, he stole a nearby tractor and continued on his journey.
Police were called and tried to pull him over, but he refused to stop, leading them on a 20-mile slow-speed chase into South Dakota. He finally crashed into a police car.     

MADE FOR EACH OTHER: When Deputy Gary Beans joined the Shelby County, Tenn., Sheriff's Department, the chief know just the man to pair him with: Deputy Mike Franks. He just couldn't resist.     

WHO, ME? A woman crashed her car near a Kmart in Stuart, Fla., and then tried to avoid arrest by running into the store, stealing clothes, hair dye and makeup, and then attempting to disguise herself in the bathroom. It didn't work. Police came into the bathroom and arrested her.      

DYNAMITE? EXPLODE? REALLY? Construction workers in Nakatsu, Japan, had to  dispose of five sticks of dynamite. They assumed that the dynamite could be burned with the other rubbish as long as the detonators were removed. Their assumption was incorrect.
The resulting blast blew out the windows of seven nearby homes.     

NOT TO MENTION BAD MANNERS: Early in their marriage, a wife in Coburn, Germany, gave her husband a gift of $21,000. But eventually their relationship deteriorated. There were heated arguments in which the husband told the wife that he thought she was insane and threatened to have her institutionalized. He said she was "crazy and belonged in the funny farm."
Adding insult to injury, he refused to give the money back when they finally separated.
A court ordered him to return the money, saying he did not deserve it because of his poor treatment of his wife, and finding him guilty of "gross ingratitude."

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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