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April 3, 2005

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP: A gas company worker, dispatched to a Connecticut home to investigate reports of a gas leak, accidentally punctured an underground pipe, causing the house to explode.

LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE: A convicted robber escaped from prison in North Carolina and broke into a vacant electronics store where he lived for the next four months, eating stolen baby food and spending his time watching DVDs and shooting hoops with a mini-basketball set. He even rerouted water from an adjacent toy store and installed a smoke detector. Police eventually caught up with him.

MAKING TROUBLE, WERE WE? A man was so obnoxious as he was boarding a Denver-to-Anchorage flight, that he was shut off even before he took his seat. The crew's instinct was correct.
Even without booze, the man acted like a raging bull, breaking tray tables, throwing his food on the floor, spitting, swearing, smoking several cigarettes, ripping the in-flight phone off the seat, and urinating on the floor of the lavatory. He was arrested as soon as the plane landed.

THIS IS YOUR CAR ON DRUGS: When his family car, purchased from a used car lot in 1997, began to spontaneously decelerate, a Louisiana man took it to the shop. A mechanic soon discovered the problem: two bricks of cocaine worth $40,000 had been stashed in the gas tank, apparently for years, and the wrapping was beginning to come loose. Police are looking for the previous owners.

THIS DIRT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS HERE: Two men took the excess dirt from the driveway of the home they were repaving in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and dumped it under a big fir tree in the forest. They spread the soil with rakes to make it look nice.
Alas, it is illegal to dump anything - even dirt - on federal land, so they were arrested.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/columnists

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