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September 5, 2004

FANCY MEETING YOU HERE: Police arrested a man in Glendale, Calif., for stalking his ex-girlfriend by attaching a global positioning system to her car, enabling him to show up unexpectedly wherever she was: a book store, an airport and dozens of other places.
After she broke up with him,he attached a cellular phone to her car that activated when the car moved, and transmitted a signal to a satellite and then to a Web site he could monitor.
She learned how he was following her when she discovered him under her car attempting to change the cell phone's battery.

YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND OUR LOVE: Shoppers at a busy mall in Stuttgart, Germany, were shocked to see a man having sex with a blow-up doll, oblivious to those bustling by him. He was heavily intoxicated.
After a spirited struggle to separate man from doll, police escorted him from the scene.

ZOLTAN, THEES DOES NOT TASTE RIGHT: Authorities in Budapest had to destroy  60 tons of tainted paprika imported from Spain and Brazil. The hot spice is an essential ingredient in the national dish, Hungarian goulash. Without it, BLECHHHH!

IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE NO MOOSE HERE ... WHAM! Tourists in Norway are stealing the distinctive moose-crossing signs - triangular, red border, picture of a moose in the middle - from the roadsides at a record rate.
As a result, motorists drive through these areas blissully unaware of the ``unusually high moose danger.''

AND IF WE REFUSE? After many complaints that they are rude and surly, Russian border guards have been ordered to smile more.

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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