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April 13, 2003

I NEED SOME ATTENTION! Upset at her husband's obsession with computer games, a housewife in Nagoya, Japan, told police she had been slashed by a knife-wielding assailant when she took out the trash, a chore that hubby used to do before his computer fixation.     
She said she did it in hopes that "he would turn his attention to me if I was in trouble."

WHEEE, THIS IS FUN! Police determined that a woman school bus driver in San Jacinto, Calif., was high on methamphetamine after she made several U-turns in the middle of the street and drove around in circles in vacant lots as she transported the children home.

STICK 'EM UP, I MEAN IT! A 23-year-old man tried to rob  the Pine Bluff, Ark., bank by using the old pointed-finger-in-the-pocket-to-look-like-a-gun trick.     
Far from being fooled, the tellers found it amusing and just laughed at him, refusing to hand over any money. Humiliated, he fled, and was arrested a short distance away.

YOUR TUITION DOLLARS AT WORK: After The University of Bradford and Bradford College merged, officials at the two British institutions hired consultants to determine what the new entity should be called.     
The experts came up with three choices: The University of Bradford, University of Bradford and Bradford University. The bill: $30,000.

NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT: A Pennsylvania man went to court to terminate his alimony payments to his ex-wife because she had moved in with another woman in Kentucky, violating, he claimed, their agreement that she would stop receiving money if she were to "cohabitate."     
Pennsylvania law has generally regarded cohabitation as involving a man and a woman living together as husband and wife, so he is trying to break new legal ground. But the ex-husband has failed to prove that a sexual relationship exists between the two women.     
The state supreme court is considering the matter.

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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