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March 16, 2003

THE BRIDGE OF THIGHS: A busy public street cuts through a sprawling Palm Springs, Calif., nudist resort which made it necessary for clients to put on clothes in order to go from one side of the facility to the other. But no more.     
The owners spent $500,000 to build a 110-foot pedestrian bridge the nudists can now use to pass over the street au naturel without being seen by curious passers-by.

SO IT DIDN'T SEEM ODD TO YOU? A very strange prankster went into a shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, and asked the female clerk, who was there alone, if he could smear baked beans and syrup on her bare feet to raise money for Comic Relief. She fell for it.     
After putting the gunk on her, he took some pictures and left. The woman didn't suspect anything until she went home and told her roommates, who said "What on Earth were you thinking?"

GENTLEMEN, PLEASE! Lawmakers in India's parliament registered their objections to a bill to raise the price of fertilizer by screaming for four hours.
The proposal was withdrawn.

THE PERFECT CRIME ... KA-BOOOM! A 19-year-old woman rented a cottage in San Francisco. She didn't have to pay much because appliances were not included. She then broke into a vacant apartment and stole the stove, but she forgot to disconnect the gas.     
Two hours later, the water heater kicked on, igniting the gas, and the apartment building blew up.

RIGHT, WE'VE HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE: A Haitian immigrant in Albany, Ga., explained in court that he shot three men because they put a voodoo curse on him, and he couldn't afford to return home and get a witch doctor to cancel the hex. The man got life in prison.

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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