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November 21, 2004

HONEY, I DID IT FOR US! Desperate for money, a Connecticut man staged a burglary of his own home so he could steal his fiancé's engagement ring and pawn it.
Detectives got wise when, as a routine part of the investigation, they saw pawn shop records indicating that he recently did business with the good people at an establishment called "Hock It To Me.'' He confessed. Wedding plans are on hold.

PULL OVER HERE: A California Department of Motor Vehicles employee fondled seven teenage girls while conducting their drivers license tests. He was arrested.

DID YOU WANT ME FOR SOMETHING? A 500-pound black bear ripped his way into the Colorado home of a paralyzed man and spent about two hours ransacking the kitchen as the man lay helpless in his bedroom down the hall.
The guy used his intercom to contact his two caretakers sleeping upstairs, but each of them thought it was the other's turn to listen and slept through the commotion. The bear eventually left.

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ...: A Ukrainian woman met an American man through an Internet dating service, and married him three months later, but did not live happily ever after. She says he beat her after they wed. Divorce followed. She sued the matchmaking service and was awarded $434,000. She's now engaged to another American man.

AND THAT REACTION WAS STRONG INDEED: A man was arrested for stroking the buttocks of three women at the Wal-Mart in Knoxville, Tenn. He wanted to see their reaction.

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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