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March 7, 2004

WELL, IT'S ABOUT TIME: A Jordanian woman, whose husband had left her, received divorce papers from him 42 years later. When he took off in 1962, he simply said, "I divorce you'' three times in keeping with Islamic custom, and did not file papers until he was required to in order to get an ID card.
The woman wasn't exactly waiting for the paperwork to get on with her life. She has long since married someone else with whom she has several children.

CALL THIS GUY `MR. SMOOTH:' A thief, trying to break into an ATM at the Omaha Civic Center with a forklift at 4:30 in the morning, accidentally broke a sprinkler line in the ceiling, releasing thousands of gallons of water and setting off the fire alarm.
When the firemen got there, they found the ATM hanging from the forklift. The money was still inside.

A BLOW TO THE PROSECUTION'S CASE: A Connecticut woman, charged in an auto accident that killed the man she was riding with, said in court that there is no way she could be guilty. She said it was the victim who was driving. They were going home from a party in his Mercedes-Benz convertible, and she was performing a sex act on him at the time when the vehicle hit a tree. 
Her attorney noted that the man's pants were down when police arrived.

SSSSSSS, FLASH, KA-BOOOOOM! A gopher apparently chewed through an underground polyethylene gas line in Royalton, Minn., causing a leak that seeped into a home. Then a spark. Then an explosion.
The house was destroyed.

COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ANYONE: A Gary, Ind., police officer had sex with the police chief's secretary on a desk in the office, as they had been doing for about 10 years.
But this time, he says, she hit her head on the desk as he was helping her up afterwards. She later died. The officer is being charged with manslaughter.

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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