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September 28, 2003

WHAT, AGAIN!? An inmate, who was in custody at a Des Moines, Iowa, facility on an escape charge, escaped.

A MAN WITH A PLAN: A mustachioed man wearing a floral dress with a floppy hat robbed Regions Bank in Rome, Ga., and then stripped off the women's clothes to reveal men's clothes underneath. He was arrested in the parking lot across the street.
He was homeless and told police he needed the money to buy drugs.

A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE: A man who was running for a seat on the school board in South Mississippi failed to get any votes even though his was the only name on the ballot. He says he tried to vote for himself, but his polling place was closed.
It was the first time in history that an entire precinct failed to show up at the polls.

THAT'S HER 'MR. RIGHT,' THE ONE IN THE HANDCUFFS: After extending the prison sentence of a Pennsylvania convict who hid marijuana in his underwear, a judge then officiated at the man's wedding, marrying the inmate to his 19-year-old girlfriend.
The judge asked the bride several times if she wanted to go through with it as her new husband was serving time for hitting a man on the head with a beer bottle during a bar fight and then opening fire on him with a gun.

AT LEAST THE HORSE HAD NO CELL PHONE: Enforcing the law that prohibits people in Australia from talking on cell phones while driving, police in Melbourne pulled over a horse-drawn buggy traveling 2 m.p.h. and charged the driver.
The judge threw out the case, calling it "a bit silly."

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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