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October 26, 2003

NO, NO, THAT'S STIFF 'UPPER LIP': Six 13-year-old schoolboys, responding to a dare, took the erection-enhancing drug Viagra, and were taken to the hospital as a precaution until the effects wore off.
A source at Forest School in Winnersh, southern England told The Sun newspaper that the lads ingested the Viagra at lunch, and "by the time the afternoon lessons began, there was no hiding what they had done."

DRUGS? FROM AMERICA? Normally, drugs are smuggled from Colombia into the United States. So police in Bogotá were surprised to find 180 pounds of cocaine hidden aboard a commercial airliner that had just come in from Miami.
Apparently, traffickers loaded the drugs on the plane in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and planned to remove them in Miami before the plane flew onto Bogotá, but missed their chance.

PEEK-A-BOO, I SEE YOU: Responding to widespread police bribery, officials in Mexico City have installed closed-circuit television cameras on city street corners.
The press has dubbed the new system "hermano grande," or Big Brother.

BUT WAS IT FUN FOR HIM? A man walking to a bus stop in Edinburgh, Scotland, at about 11 p.m. was attacked by four teenage girls. They knocked him down and kicked and stomped on him until they were confronted by another man who lived nearby.
Several of the girls were later arrested and said they assaulted the man for the fun of it.

POSING FOR HIS 'WANTED' POSTER: A masked man burst into a betting parlor in Manchester, England, grabbed a bunch of money from the safe and headed for the door. But, he was a bit to quick at removing his mask, pulling it off as he fled, and found himself standing barefaced in front of the last surveillance camera near the door.
Officers burst out laughing when they saw the video: "It's one of the clearest pictures of a suspect you'll ever see," one said.

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