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JULY 31, 2005

HE’S CALLED “SILENCER OF THE BIG CAT:” 
Daniel M'Mburugu, a 73-year-old farmer, was tending his crops in a
rural area of Kenya when a leopard suddenly came charging out of the jungle at him. M'Mburugu had a machete in his hand, but, he said later, God
whispered to him to drop the weapon and thrust his hand into the animal's
mouth, which he did. He then pulled out the leopard's tongue, killing it.
He is currently being hailed as a hero in his village.

CHANCES ARE, HE’LL BE PARDONED: 
A butcher was convicted of the murder of a waitress who disappeared in
China's Hunan Province in 1987 shortly before six pieces of a woman's body were found floating in a river.
The good news: she turned up alive 18 years later. The bad news: he was
executed in 1989.

OUR PLAN CAN NOT POSSIBLY FAIL: 
Thieves tried to steal a power cable from atop a tower near a highway
in Huayin, China. They cut the cable, but it caught up in a passing truck
which then pulled seven steel towers, stopping traffic for nine hours and
leaving 80,000 people in the dark.

HE THOUGHT HE’D GET, MAYBE, A FEW CALLS:
In a bid to become closer to his people, Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono made his mobile phone number public, and invited anyone who had a complaint about government services to call him. The deluge of calls overloaded the line and it crashed.

WE’RE TOUGH ON CRIME HERE:
A horned African cow killed a bus driver who was urinating on the side
of the road in Lagos, Nigeria. Police arrested the animal.

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