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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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April 18, 2004 OH, WAS THAT TODAY? At the beginning of the year, a Nebraska state senator set aside a specific day in April for everyone in the legislature to wear patriotic scarves and ties. The day came, and almost everyone forgot - including him. YOU PICKED THE WRONG BAR, ACE, WHAP! A would-be robber, brandishing a shotgun, walked into a Kokomo, Ind., bar at closing time and ordered the owner and the three patrons onto the floor. But the owner would have none of it. He knocked the guy down, and then everybody proceeded to beat him senseless with fists and bottles. YOU'RE A WHAT!? An Indiana man discovered that the "woman'' with whom he was having what you might call an "intimate encounter,'' was, in fact, a man. Murder followed. ADAPTING TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT: Train engineers noticed small rocks on the tracks in Northeastern England, and assumed kids were putting them there to see the trains smash them to bits. But it turned out that it was birds who swallow the crushed stones to help them digest their food. ANYTHING BUT THE PHONE: A mother in Hong Kong took away her teenage daughter's cell phone, prompting the girl to grab a knife and chase her mother around the apartment. The mother locked herself into her bedroom and called the cops, who arrived to find the girl slashing away at the bedroom door. They had to use pepper spray to subdue her.
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