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May 18, 2003

I WAS WHAT!? A woman, thinking she was having an anxiety attack, went to the emergency room of a Lakeland, Fla., hospital, where she promptly gave birth to a baby girl. She didn't know she was pregnant.

BOUNCED FROM THE FORCE: A Florida policeman caught two teenagers kissing in a parked car, and ordered the girl to do jumping jacks while topless in order to avoid arrest. She told her parents. The officer was forced to resign.

HAVE THE BEARS FORMED AN ALLIANCE? A man went into the Kenai Peninsula near Kasilof, Alaska, to hunt black bear. He was attacked by a brown bear.

HEY WHERE'S ALL THE LADIES? A European species of carp has invaded the rivers in Australia and have become so prodigious that they are endangering native fish.
So scientists there are introducing genetically modified fish which will mate with the carp and produce only males, causing the carp to die off naturally in a generation.

BUT I DIGRESS: A man on trial for murder in Arizona, acting as his own attorney, launched into a rambling, 40-minute opening statement.
When he started in on the subject of his sexual prowess, the judge reminded him to use his remarks to refute the considerable evidence against him.

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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