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May 15, 2005

NOW, COULD I LOOK AT THIS CAR IN BLUE? As she was about to take a new car for a test drive in Fort Myers, Fla., an 81-year-old woman stepped on the wrong pedal and hit her husband, the salesman, another car, a tree and a wall.

OH, TOO BAD, I WAS GOING TO TAKE THE MAGIC BUS: While on a domestic airline flight, a 37-year-old West Virginia man got into a quarrel with his boyfriend that got so violent that the pilot landed the plane in Denver.
When a judge ordered that he stay off airplanes, the man asked if it would be all right if he took a bus from West Virginia to Colorado for court appearances.
The judge replied, "As long as it doesn't leave the ground, you're in good shape.''

WHEN ON THE RUN, A LOW PROFILE IS BEST: After killing one police detective and wounding another in Battle Creek, Mich., a man carjacked a vehicle to make his getaway. His choice of car wasn't exactly perfect for someone who wouldn't want to attract attention: A Ford Thunderbird with an easy-to-remember vanity plate FLYNFUN.
Once these particulars were broadcast, police got a tip from someone who recalled seeing him.

SOUNDS HARDER THAN A REAL JOB: Two women in Tucson, Ariz., shoplifted about $50,000 worth of women's clothing from department stores every month for five years, with one stuffing the goods into a large shoulder bag, and the other into a specially-made girdle under her skirt.     They sold $600,000 worth of clothing every year to secondhand stores for about 3 percent of its value.

WELCOME BACK, LOSER: While he was out on bail, a California man's girlfriend got locked up in the same jail he had been released from, prompting him to try and come to her rescue.
He threw a Molotov cocktail into the facility, then crashed a van through a security gate and tried to ram open a jail door. He then fled the scene, but was caught seven hours later and brought back to the jail.

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