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November 23, 2003

FREEDOM! FREEDOM! HEY, WAIT! NO! After demonstrators were arrested in Miami at trade talks there, their fellow demonstrators went to the jail to protest the arrests. They were immediately arrested.

EXCUSE ME, SORRY, CAN'T SEE: A man robbed the Oak Valley Community Bank in Modesto, Calif., disguising himself with a checkered cloth mask over his face and under a hat. But he lacked a certain grace because he forgot to cut eyeholes in the cloth, and had to keep holding up a corner of it in order to see.
He crashed into the doorframe on the way out, but managed to get away with the money.

LAUGHING? WONDER WHY? A man tried to retrieve 50 cents from the coin return slot of a pay telephone in East St. Louis, Ill., and got his middle finger stuck inside for three hours. He dialed 911 with his free hand. Police rushed the man - and the telephone - to the hospital where he was extricated.
The phone was near a busy bus stop.
"People on the bus who know me were laughing at me," he said later.

SAY THAT TO MY FACE! Four young men felt they had been shown disrespect by a fast-food restaurant employee of their acquaintance while they were proceeding along the drive-through lane of the establishment in Saginaw Township, Mich.
So they got out of their car and walked into the restaurant where they started a brawl with workers and other customers. Punches, food trays and other things were thrown. Arrests followed immediately.

CHEAP RENT, LADIES ONLY: A man in Virginia Beach, Va., installed a hidden video camera in his bathroom so he could watch his two female roommates in the shower. One of them discovered it and called the cops. The man has been jailed.

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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