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Want more? Mike Pingree also writes a separate Looking Glass column for the Boston Herald. Past Columns (The Archives)
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February 15, 2004 ONE SMALL TOWN IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER: An insurance company wanted to make a commercial depicting life on the streets of small-town Wisconsin. Alas, there were 16 inches of snow on the ground in Wisconsin. So they filmed it in Florida. A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET QUICK MONEY: A 71-year-old man robbed a bank in Gainesville, Fla., with his 66-year-old wife acting as getaway driver. They were caught. Dye-pack explosion. He said it was to pay his wife's medical bills. But he has a criminal history dating back to 1954, and has robbed banks before. GET A WHIFF OF THIS! A veterinarian investigating an odor complaint in a rural area in southwest Sweden found 20 cats in an abandoned house. The fumes from their feces knocked him out cold, and he was hospitalized for three days. NEXT TIME, BE READY: A guard in the control room of an
Arkansas prison pressed the wrong button causing the cell doors of 26
death-row inmates to spring open. GOOD, CLEAN FUN: A group of young men were having fun playing a parlor game called Taboo at a home in Conway, Ark., when two of them got angry because they were losing. They pulled guns and, cursing and screaming, threatened the others. Police involvement ensued. Drugs may have been a factor.
Mike Pingree
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