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May 9, 2004

OH YEAH, WE'VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE: Security guards opened up an abandoned duffel bag a year after they discovered it at a shopping mall in Blaine, Minn., and found 25 plastic bags of marijuana and the ID of the supposed owner. Police confronted him when he came down to claim it, but he protested that only the bag was his; the contents belonged to his brother.
So they searched him and found he was carrying 10 more similar bags of marijuana.

SAY AGAIN? A Texas man, who was so moved when he saw "The Passion of the Christ'' that he confessed to killing his girlfriend, was brought to court to be charged. He pleaded innocent.

I HAVE ARRIVED, GIRLFRIEND! Crossdressers in Alabama have been stealing flashy new cars from dealerships, and driving them to pageant-type competitions before abandoning them. A police sergeant told the Birmingham News "I guess they just want to look good when they get there.''

ALMOST A CLEAN GETAWAY: A few hours after he reported his car stolen in Springfield, Mass., the owner saw the thieves driving his vehicle into a downtown car wash.
He called the cops again, and they were waiting when the car came out the other end.

I KNOW THIS LOOKS BAD, OFFICER, BUT ...: Indiana state troopers stopped a pickup truck that was filled with so much marijuana that they didn't need the services of their drug-sniffing dog.
One of the troopers said, "Once you first stopped it, it was obvious - you could smell it.''     The bed of the truck was crammed with 900 one-pound bricks of pot piled so high that it blocked a temporary license plate in the rear window.

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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