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May 22, 2005

SO YOU SEE, I HAD A GOOD REASON, YOUR HONOR: During jury selection in a Tennessee assault case, a potential juror was dismissed when he told the prosecutor that the police once took him to a mental hospital after he almost shot his nephew.
He said he was provoked because the nephew refused to come out from under the bed.

HEY, I GOTTA BE ME: A Japanese Olympic Gold medalist was arrested after she got drunk at a Tokyo nightclub and then went berserk when a bartender tried to stop her from having sex with a foreign man whose pants were down on the sofa in the VIP room.
She was suspended from her job at Fuji Television ``for anti-social behavior and lacking any form of adult discipline.''

OK, JUST TRY TO BLEND IN: Two men who robbed a bank in Bangor, Maine, used as their getaway car a purple Ford Ranger with red sport flares and pinstripes down the side. They were promptly apprehended.

YOUR HOUSE?! THIS IS MY HOUSE! After a woman failed to pay a $420 assessment fee on her $250,000 Houston home, the local homeowners association, unbeknownst to her, sold the house in a foreclosure auction
The woman says she never received notices alerting her to the delinquent bill, and has sued to get her house back.

GO TO YOUR ROOM AND STAY THERE! When his tenants got behind in their rent, a Lakeland, Fla., landlord swung a sword at them and then imprisoned them in their bedroom, sealing off the doorway by screwing a large piece of plywood over it.

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