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October 31, 2004

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!? Just as a retiree had cracked open a Budweiser in the screened-in porch of his mobile home in Safety Harbor, Fla., the large aluminum door that covers the an airplane landing gear fell off of a jetliner passing above and hit the roof just over his head.
The man said he was so shocked that he couldn't move from his lawn chair for more than five minutes.

SURE, LADY, WE BELIEVE YOU: A Nebraska woman applied for an absentee ballot for her mother, who is deceased.
She said she wanted the ballot for a memorial scrapbook and had no intention of using it to vote. Skeptical authorities charged her with fraudulently attempting to obtain an absentee ballot, a Class I misdemeanor.

SHAKE YOUR FIST AT ME, WILL YOU!? A 62-year-old man shook his fist at another driver who had cut him off on a California highway.
In response, the other guy followed him into a shopping-mall parking lot and beat the crap out of him as he was calling the cops on his cell phone. Broken arm. The other guy got away.

BUT IT SEEMED TO MAKE SENSE AT THE TIME: While quaffing down nine or ten beers, a man in Cordelle, Ga., watched the cataclysmic natural disaster movie ``Day After Tomorrow'' and then set a fire on his bed that burned down the trailer in which he was living.
The sheriff who arrested him for arson said, ``The whole thing just doesn't really make sense.''

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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