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April 17, 2005

AND PLAN A WAS PRETTY SHAKY TOO: Three 11-year-old boys - one armed with a knife - and a 10-year-old girl in Punxsutawney, Pa., tried to hijack their school bus to Las Vegas. They demanded that the female driver pull over and get out, because they were going to drive the 2,000 miles themselves. She refused, ordered the boy to give up the weapon, made them sit back down, and drove them to school. Once there, she had administrators call the cops.
Asked why she thought the kids backed down, she said, "Apparently, they did not have a Plan B.''

HEY, KIDS, LET'S PARDEEEE! Ten Florida kids hired a limousine on prom night to ensure their safety, but the female driver ran stop signs, cut people off and crossed the center line. They had her arrested for drunk driving.

A MARRIED WOMAN'S FANTASY: Apparently believing her husband would never find out, a woman allowed her lover to live in a large closet of their upscale, Nashville, Tenn., home.
He was there for about a month, when the husband heard him snoring. Rather - than go quietly, the lover bludgeoned the husband to death.

BUT ISN'T SOCIETY REALLY TO BLAME HERE? A man in Massachusetts appealed his conviction on a charge that he tried to poison a friend. He said his conviction was the result of his attorney's incompetence.
Ironically, he had acted as his own attorney in the case.

PROVIDING A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR THE KIDS: A middle school teacher in Dallas ordered a student to stop loitering at her locker and go to class. The student's mother, who is also a teacher, was informed of this and became angry.
She stormed into the first teacher's classroom, grabbed her by the hair, dragged her across the room, and punched her in the face. Police involvement resulted.

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