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August 17, 2003

GOOD, CLEAN, WHOLESOME FUN: Four teenagers drove around Cleveland in the wee hours of the morning and used a stun gun to shock homeless men as they slept on the city sidewalks. They also videotaped their adventures.     
Alas, their car broke down, and then they fled when a passing motorist stopped and called the police to assist them. In their haste, they left the videocamera behind.

OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS: A man robbed the First American Bank in Abilene in Texas, but was caught after witnesses gave his license plate number to the cops. When they caught up with him, the discovered the robber was 91 years old.     
The man embarked on his life of crime at age 80. When he was almost 87, he robbed a bank in Biloxi, Miss. For this, he was given three years probation and was ordered to leave Mississippi. He did. He went to Pensacola, Fla., and robbed another bank.

DO NOT SCANDALIZE OUR HOME: A man who lived with his mother and sister in Lecco, Italy, got engaged to a divorced woman, prompting the mother and sister to lock him out of the house. (Divorce is taboo in Italy.)     
He took the women to court, but the judge asked them to try and resolve the matter themselves.

OUCH! HEY, I WAS JUST KIDDING: During an angry disagreement over what color to paint the walls of their home in Hamburg, Germany, a 53-year-old man handed his wife a kitchen knife and sarcastically suggested that she use it on him. She did. He is dead and she is under arrest.

ZZZZ! ZZZZ! ZZZZ! BANG! A 300-pound Largo, Fla., man kept a pistol under the cushions of his couch because he was afraid of intruders. Apparently, his weight pushed on the gun in a certain way causing it to go off, killing him.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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