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October 17, 2004

SNIFF, I SMELL DANGER: Railway workers have been spreading lion dung along the tracks of a mountainous line in Japan to keep critters away lest they be hit by locomotives.
There have never been lions in Japan, but local deer, raccoons and other such animals seem instinctively to sense the smell of a beast that would do them harm. As a result, train-critter collisions have been cut to zero.

I GOT IT, NO PROBLEM, FZZZZZT! A man was nearly electrocuted when he tried to steal a copper cable from an electric company in Hawaii while it was still attached.
He crawled into an underground junction box and tried to cut through a live 12,000-volt distribution line, causing third-degree burns to his upper body and singing his hair. He also knocked out power to 1,600 homes and business in West Maui.

NO, YOU CAN`T HAVE IT! VROOOM! When authorities converged on a man's home in Helbra, Germany, to repossess his car, he greeted him with a chainsaw. They wrestled him to the ground.

NYAH, NYAH! A would be robber walked into a bank in Zagreb, Croatia, pointed the gun at the teller and demanded she turn over the money. Since she was standing behind bulletproof class, the woman laughed in his face and called the cops. The man fled.

NOT ONLY ARROGANT, BUT STUPID TOO: Two masked men broke into a store in Everett, Wash., and stole the cash machine. After they loaded it into their pickup truck, they took off their masks and looked directly into the security camera. Police are looking for them.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
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