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February 20, 2005

HEY, YOU SMELL FAMILIAR: An attacker broke into a woman's home in Quincy, Mass., and raped her. Even though he was masked, the woman told police the guy was her boss who she recognized by his bad breath. DNA evidence proved her right.

YOU DON'T SCARE ME, COPPER, BLAM! A mountain lion killed two pet goats in the back yard of a rural California home, and was eating them when a wildlife warden came and tried to scare the animal away with bright lights and noise. But the lion refused to leave his dinner, so the warden killed him.
"Most of the time ... when faced with that kind of noise and visual disruption, most animals will leave,'' Fish and Game Lt. Don Kelly said. "This one held its ground.''

THIS'LL STOP THEM: A scorned lesbian burst into her ex-girlfriend's bedroom in Leeds, England, saw her ex and a new lover under the covers, and set the bed on fire. She told arresting officers she did it to keep them from making love. It worked.

SHE DIDN'T THINK IT THROUGH: After her boss found out she was stealing from him, a Florida woman put rat poison in his soda. But the man noticed the drink tasted funny and went to the emergency room. He is OK.
She said her aim was not to kill her boss, but to disable him long enough to cover her tracks. She got 20 years.

IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED: A 39-year-old Oregon girls' softball coach took off with one of his players, who was 15 at the time, and headed for Tennessee where they lived together for almost a year. She went willingly, but, alas, the law doesn't care about that.
The cops caught up with them after a minor traffic accident and he was sent to jail for six years.

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