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June 22, 2003

IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH THESE? Two men presented fake Federal Reserves notes to try and scam a New Jersey brokerage house.     
Their plan had many flaws. Among them: The phony notes had a face value of $100 million, but the highest denomination the government ever printed was only $100,000. There was also a misspelling: "one hundred million dollar" instead of "dollars" was printed on the notes. They have been arrested.

I JUST WASN'T THINKING, OFFICER: A college kid, walking home from at a party in St. Cloud, Minn., where he had had a few drinks, came upon an unoccupied ambulance with the motor running. He jumped in and started to drive home, but regretted it almost immediately so he pulled over. Too late, alas. Police involvement resulted.

UH, OK, HERE'S THE REAL STORY: A 39-year-old female politician from Alberta, Canada, vanished during a trip to Great Falls, Montana, and turned up disoriented in Las Vegas three days later. She later gave several versions of what happened.     
First she claimed to have been drugged, abducted and sexually assaulted.     
The married mother of three later changed her story, saying she met a married man from Alberta who offered to drive her to California, but instead took her to Las Vegas, where he raped her.     
Montana police didn't believe either story, and charged her with making a false police report.

FOOD FIGHT! A delivery truck left 600 eggs on the sidewalk outside a supermarket in Haltern, Germany, a short time before a group of teenagers happened by. The teens couldn't resist. They got into a gigantic food fight that left egg yolks smeared across the front of neighborhood buildings "everywhere you looked."

IS THAT A DEAD ALIEN? Motorists in the state of Queensland, Australia, have been running over koala bears at an alarming rate as they drive through the marsupials' breeding grounds.     
Authorities have resorted to shock tactics to get drivers to slow down: they paint the dead animals fluorescent red and leave them on the roadside for 24 hours.

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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