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March 27, 2005

THAT LITTLE DEVIL JUST KEPT COMING: A Florida woman killed her neighbor's Chihuahua with a shotgun, and claimed that she did it because the little pooch frightened her greatly.
She said that, after the dog came into her yard, she grabbed the shotgun and fired two warning shots to scare off the two-pound beast, but to no avail. So she fired the fatal shot.

PAY PHONES? REALLY? I'M AS SURPRISED AS YOU: When a North Carolina man brought home a big bag of change, he explained to his wife that he had won the money playing poker with his buddies.
Then she read in the papers that someone had been ripping out pay phones at night all across the state. When she went out to the garage and saw a bunch of pay phones there, she called the cops. She said her husband, who was out of work, used the coins to feed a cocaine habit.

AND MAKE IT IN SMALL, UNMARKED BILLS: Three Florida teenagers kidnapped another teen who owed one of them $50, and demanded that his father pay a $50 ransom and drop it off at a local Taco Bell. He called the cops instead.

OH, NEVER MIND: New Jersey casino regulators fined the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa $25,000 for letting a mobster, who had been banned from the city's casinos, stay overnight and gamble at the gaming tables.     The casino argued that the mobster in question has been serving time in a federal penitentiary in Colorado for more than 10 years. The fine was rescinded.

IS IT WARM IN HERE OR IS IT ME? OH: A man driving across the San Francisco Bay bridge flicked his cigarette out the window, but it blew into the back seat and set fire to the interior of his $30,000 SUV.
He pulled over and leapt out of the vehicle, escaping with singed hair.

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