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July 10, 2005

ARE YOU SURE HE'S THE RIGHT GUY? FBI agents in Chicago, who had been searching for a bank robber dubbed the Bandaged Bandit, couldn't believe their luck when he showed up at the federal courthouse to check on a lawsuit he had filed.
He was hard to miss: The suspect weighs 320 pounds, shaves his head and has severe scars on his face.

I DIDN'T KNOW, HONEST: A 16-year-old Canadian boy, in an attempt to humiliate the girl who dumped him, posted naked pictures of her on the Internet.
He is facing a whole bunch of charges including one he may not have anticipated: child porn. This is because the girl is only 15.

WINK, WINK, NUDGE, NUDGE: Danish intelligence services are recruiting spies via newspaper advertisements, but the ads don't actually say they are recruiting spies. Instead, the ads seek people with ``extraordinary talents'' willing to work under ``risky conditions,'' and who can understand Arabic.

I LOVE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE: A vagrant was found inside a venerable museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, which houses a priceless collection of antiquities when he set off a burglar alarm.     Workers asked him what he was doing there, and he said, ``I live here.'' He was arrested.

AND TRY AND FEEL BETTER, FATTY: An overweight 17-year-old boy in Italy was convicted of vandalism and disturbing the peace, but, instead of jail, he was sentenced to go on a diet. He weighs 220. The judge said the lad was acting up due to low self-esteem related to his heft.

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