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July 17, 2005

HOPE I'M NOT IMPOSING: A burglar, apparently hopped up on methamphetamine, broke into the home of a Baptist minister in Wichita, Kan., during church services, and made himself right at home. He stayed for two hours during which he watched the movie "The Karate Kid,'' spent time in the hot tub, and tried on several outfits, settling on sweatpants.
Even when the minister's wife arrived and frantically called the police, he continued to rummage around. The minister came home and took a pistol form his safe, and, with the help of several parishioners, managed to subdue him.

A LIKELY STORY, MA'AM: A woman stuffed $46,950 in cash in her bra and tried to board a plane to Texas from Boston. She told authorities who questioned her that the money was for plastic surgery on her buttocks and breasts.
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent didn't believe her, because, he said, she had a nice body, He then seized the cash, claiming it was drug money. She is suing to get it back.

GIVE 'EM A GOOD SWATTIN', MATE: In order to fight the spread of the thousands of poisonous cane toads that have infested Australia's Northern Territory, a politician has urged citizens to take up their golf clubs and cricket bats and beat them to death at every opportunity.

SAVING FACE: A man in Meiningen, Germany, won a national lottery of $921,000 in 1997, but had blown it all by 2003, so he began burglarizing homes and looting cars to make money because he was too ashamed to go to the welfare office after the money ran out.
"He didn't want it known he'd spent it all,'' a court spokesman said.

WARNING! UNAUTHORIZED PERSON! Four-foot-tall robots may soon be patrolling offices, shopping malls and banks in Japan at night. "Guardrobo'' is designed to patrol along pre-programmed paths and keep an eye out for intruders.

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