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July 3, 2005

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR NITWITS: Two thieves who burglarized city offices in Fort Smith, Ark., did so while wearing skateboarders' shoes that make an unusual footprint.
Detectives found that only one store in Fort Smith sells these particular shoes. And that store had sold only a few pairs, two of them to two likely suspects who work near the store. Arrests were swift.

HMMMM, WHAT'S THIS? FZZZZZT! Field mice, so hungry that they gnawed through a telephone cable in central Sweden, caused a 20-hour shutdown of phone service for 1,500 homes in Jamtland and Medelpad.

THAT'S DIFFERENT: The student newspaper at the University of Calgary printed a picture of a female student which showed her bare breasts and much of the rest of her. The woman said the episode left her feeling "marginalized and humiliated.''
Come to find out, the picture was taken as she was strutting her stuff as an exotic dancer - stage name, Honey Houston - with the Nasty Girls Entertainment Group.

WHAT HAPPENS IN PERU, STAYS IN PERU: Four Ecuadorian legislators, attending trade talks in Lima, Peru, got drunk and smashed up their hotel, damaging a room and the lobby and assaulting a bellboy and a receptionist.
And one of their female colleagues said one of them tried to engage in sex with her. They have been expelled from Congress.

THANKS OFFICER, I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT: A burglar broke into a house in Oklahoma City, and, before making off with the owner's air compressor, eight tool boxes, a television and a stereo, he made himself right at home.
To add insult to injury, he ate a meal and soaked in the hot tub before making his leisurely getaway. He would have gotten away with it had he not left his driver's license by the hot tub.

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