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October 12, 2003

AND HE HAD SIX MARTINIS, SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: After chasing a drunk driver down Interstate-5 at more than 125 m.p.h., police in San Diego managed to bring him to a stop by throwing a spike strip across the highway.
Officers who charged him with drunk driving and resisting arrest were somewhat surprised when they read the man's name on his drivers license: James Bond.

HELLO OFFICER?, YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS: In a stunning bid for freedom, a pet crocodile flung itself off a second-floor apartment balcony in Prague and then went for a stroll around the Czech capitol. He was soon recaptured.

TOUGH LOVE: To keep her party-loving, 13-year-old daughter from going out and staying out all night long, a mother in Cambodia nailed the child's foot to the floor.
The authorities have been called in.

TO HELL WITH NEW YORK, I'M FLYING THIS BABY TO THE MOON: A Taiwanese pilot was stopped from flying a China Airlines jetliner from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York because he was drunk.     He had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, and was carrying, in his carry-on luggage, a container of booze that had been opened.

QUICK, CALL FOR BACKUP: Police work in some less civilized places isn't all squad cars and high-tech equipment. Sometimes it's like the Wild West. Six armed rustlers stole 375 sheep from farms in the Darfur region of Sudan, and were herding them across the desert when the cops caught up with them.
In the ensuing gunfight, 11 people were killed including two police officers.

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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