E-Mail
Mike Pingree

Site design by
Mike Hanlon 

January 4, 2004

HERE IT COMES NOW: A woman was spotted on a surveillance tape in a Florida jewelry store swallowing a $20,000 diamond ring. She denied it, but an X-ray proved her wrong. Police took her to jail and waited for nature to give up the ring.

LATER, HE COULD CLAIM HE WAS DELIRIOUS: A motorcyclist crossed the center line and crashed his bike into the side of a pickup truck on Pilot Mountain, N.C., impaling himself on the handlebar six inches into his stomach.
After fellow bikers disengaged him, he turned to his girlfriend, who had been riding on the back, and proposed to her. She said yes.

HE'S BASICALLY HARMLESS UNLESS HE COMES UP WITH AN IDEA: A drunken man, intent on burglary, got up on the roof of a book store in Minneapolis, and stripped off all his clothes so he could fit down the chimney. Alas, he got stuck inside the 12-by-12-inch shaft, and had to be rescued by police.
A cop told reporters, "He doesn't appear to be a hard-core criminal, just stupid.''

IT WAS THERE FOR THE TAKING: At Christmastime, residents of Forks Township, Pa., leave tips in envelopes taped to trash cans for members of the garbage and recycling crews.
A clever thief was apparently aware of this and stole the envelopes from hundreds of homes. The trash men noticed the theft when they found empty envelopes or just tape on the barrels.

WHA... WHO, US? A 63-year-old man and his 32-year-old son were walking home after getting good and drunk at a bar in Independence, Mo., when they passed a Pizza Hut and decided to rob it.
The father stayed outside as a lookout, as the son went in and, armed with only a power drill, demanded money. The cashier refused him, so he left and the two men continued walking home as if nothing happened. The cops soon caught up with them.

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

Top  |  Past Columns (The Archives)