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July 13, 2003

OH, OF COURSE, NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN: A Wisconsin teenage girl broke off a brief relationship with a boy shortly after going with him to a Valentine's Day high school dance in 1971. Eight years ago, after having no contact since high school, he began stalking her, police say.     
Hang-up phone calls, unsigned cards and gifts, flowers left on the porch, things like that. He was caught when she noticed a car driving past her home and got the license plate number.

BANG, BANG YOU'RE DEAD: Feeling she had been cut off in traffic, a woman in Jensen Beach, Fla., pulled even with the other car and flashing the driver an obscene hand gesture.     
When she saw that he was a cop on his way to work, she rolled up her window. But her passenger was unfazed, pointing his hands at him like a gun and pretending to shoot. The policeman didn't like this at all and arrested him.

HEY, I'VE BEEN FRAMED: A man in Harrislee, Germany, who didn't like his neighbor's dog, planted a speaker in the neighbor's hedge and played recorded barking so the animal would respond in kind and he could report the dog for excessive noise.     
The plot fell apart when the neighbor found the speaker and the cord leading back to the man's house.

HELLO, IT'S ME AGAIN: Exasperated because a telemarketer for an auto glass company was calling him up to three times a day even though he was on a "do-not-call" list, a Minnesota man started bombarding the telemarketer with phone calls - more than 100 in two days. They got the point. The calls have stopped.

CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE? Angered that his father stopped him from attending art school, an artist in Bad Ems, Germany, refused to speak for 29 years until the old man died.

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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