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October 5, 2003

WE SUSPECT THE WORST: An animal rights group freed thousands of minks from a farm in Sultan, Wash., not realizing that, while the animals behave well when they are caged in pairs, they become vicious when in the wild and often resort to eating each other.
Some 10,000 minks were set free, but only 9,000 have returned.

HEY, THAT'S FIGHTING DIRTY: A woman in Wellega, Ethiopia, had a furious fight with her husband because he spent too much money on booze, and was so mad that she refused to sleep with him.
A police report said, "The husband was so angered by this affront by his wife that he tried to beat her. In the melee that followed, the wife grabbed and twisted his testicles causing serious damage."
The man was so embarrassed at the nature of his injury and how it had been inflicted that he refused to seek medical treatment and died a few days later.

GOD PROTECTS THE IDIOTS: A man stripped down to take a shower at a car wash in Fuerth, Germany, but he was unable to start the machine. Had he succeeded, police said, he might have been scalded to death.

BUSINESS MUST BE PRETTY GOOD: A Florida stockbroker lived in a $360,000 home, owned a Beechcraft airplane, owned $21,000 worth of jewelry and a 31-foot boat.
Unfortunately, police say he was financing his lifestyle with almost a million dollars he stole from the account of a wealthy 82-year-old man.

ODDLY, IT ISN'T VERY HOT: Instead of regular programming, videotape of a log burning in a fireplace runs from three until six in the morning on a television network in Germany.
A woman in Luebeck woke up in the middle of the night and thought her television set was on fire. She called the fire department.

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