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June 1, 2003

I'M NOT SAYING WE DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS: A man in Lapao, Brazil, has reconciled with his wife who cut off his member when he told her he was divorcing her. It was reattached at a hospital, and he subsequently decided to stay in the marriage, saying his wife had mutilated him because "she was stressed."

REMOVE YOUR HANDS FROM MY POCKETS, NOW! An ambulance medic in Munich was picking up extra money by robbing unconscious patients as they were being transported to the hospital.     
In response to complaints of missing money, an undercover policeman was put on his ambulance on a stretcher and caught him in the act.

WHY NOT? THE COPS WILL NEVER KNOW: A man who fled Ireland for England to avoid trial on charges involving a fatal auto accident, thought nothing of appearing on a live television game show.     
He won the top prize, but was arrested and sent back to Ireland.

LOOK, IT'S OFFICER HOBO: Police officers posing as vagrants have been catching traffic violators in Kissimmee, Fla. When they see drivers running red lights, they radio ahead to uniformed police who spring into action.     
The undercover officers' tattered clothes are the perfect disguise. It seems nobody pays any attention to them.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS: Three young boys broke into the Purina Mills pet food factory and drove the company's forklifts wildly throughout the place, ramming each other in a game of bumper cars, tipping over hundreds of feed sacks and smashing the vehicles into other machinery. They caused $1 million worth of damage. They are in police custody.

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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