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June 20, 2004

I'M GETTING OUT ANYWAY! A man boarded a Santa Maria-to-Los Angeles Greyhound bus not realizing that it didn't stop in Ventura.
After the driver informed him of this, as they sped through the city on the Interstate, the man removed an emergency window and jumped out. He survived.

THERE APPEARS TO BE A TRAFFIC PLANE ON THE HIGHWAY, CHET: A radio station's airplane ran out of gas as it was reporting on the morning rush hour traffic in California's Castro Valley and had to land on the Interstate. The landing backed up traffic.

THAT SOUNDS SOOOO ROMANTIC: A woman on parole for welfare fraud in New York moved with her boyfriend and two-year-old child to North Carolina where officials agreed to take over supervision of her probation.
But cohabitation is illegal in North Carolina, so the woman and the boyfriend may be forced to marry.

HE ENJOYS BEING A GIRL: A manly man working the manly job of tractor parts  salesman at a Des Moines, Iowa, dealership for a quarter-century wasn't as manly as you might think. He always felt he was actually a woman.
So, he had doctors put him on the road to becoming a woman. The tractor dealership put him on the road to becoming unemployed. He (or she) is suing for wrongful termination.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING: A New Orleans judge was brought before the state's Judiciary Commission for being so drunk in his courtroom that he was unable to read arrest warrants, and once had to be carried from the chamber by deputies.
He argued that the fact that he is an alcoholic was well-known to voters who elected him anyway, indicating that it didn't bother them in the least. The Supreme Court didn't buy it and removed him.

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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