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April 10, 2005

SO, DRUG ADDICTS CAN BE MOTIVATED: A group of drug addicts dismantled an unoccupied three-bedroom brick house in Lindale, Tex., over a period of three months in broad daylight, and sold the building material for drugs.
They got away with it because there was legitimate construction work going on nearby, and people assumed it was part of that project.
"It's the strangest case I've ever worked in my life,'' said County Constable Dennis Taylor. "Everybody drove by and waved at them.''

UH, HI, YOU'VE BEEN ON MY MIND LATELY: While arresting a 25-year-old woman for drunken driving, a Texas police officer examined her cell phone and found that she had stored nude photos of herself on it.     Investigators say the officer downloaded the photos to his computer, and, two weeks later, called her and asked her out on a date. He denies wrongdoing.

I THINK WE'VE CRACKED THE CASE: Burglars broke into a store in Appleton, Wisc., one snowy night, and stole $785, mostly in coins, put the money into a milk crate and fled. But they failed to notice that the coins were spilling out and leaving a trail, and making no noise because they were landing in snow.
Police noticed the trail, however, and followed it four blocks west and one block south, right to the home where the perpetrators reside.

HA, SHE'LL NEVER CATCH ME ... WHA? A man snatched a woman's purse in Chengdu city, China, and took off running, but was surprised to see that she matched his speed and was gaining on him. It turns out that the woman was the running champion of Shandong province.     Frustrated, he threw the purse toward her, and she gave up the chase.

I'M SURE IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE: Television cameras filmed a lawmaker sound asleep in the New Zealand Parliament while the nation's business was being conducted.
The New Zealand Parliament is ordering that all cameras be removed.

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