A response to a car alarm isn’t something you hear about every day
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Bruce Stark of Seal Beach was amazed at the recent item here about the Ontario police chief who responded to his own car alarm and arrested a would-be thief in the middle of the night.
Stark said he didn’t think anyone responded to car alarms anymore.
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Not that kind of circus
The Cirque du Soleil’s “Corteo” show is in San Diego, a few months removed from the circus’ successful engagement at the Forum in Inglewood. Well, not completely successful. One nonspectator who lives near the Forum did phone The Times to complain about the animal smells wafting through the neighborhood. One problem with the complaint: The Cirque du Soleil doesn’t use animals.
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Rain checks
In case you’re wondering whether it’s rained in Southern California before this year, here are some archival Only in L.A. shots (see photos) that show:
* A shop that claimed it could deal with Southern California’s special blend of precipitation
* A resident who thought she’d wash off the acid rain herself (by Edwin Parsons Jr.)
* An emergency sign for those seeking to sail away during El Nino (by Lisalee Wells)
* A “rain or shine” guarantee that proved to be pretty soggy (by David Boone)
* And an ad for some pooch protection (submitted by Atilio de Bihar)
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No need for the SWAT team
The police and fire departments in Laguna Beach are occasionally asked to perform some special services for the affluent residents. The town’s News-Post reported the other day that a woman dialed 911 and asked “for a ladder to help her climb into her bedroom after locking herself out.”
Sometimes the caller is too far from home to deal with an emergency. On another occasion, the News-Post carried this item:
“A Laguna Beach woman called police from Los Angeles to say she had left a pie in the oven and asked to have an officer go to her home and turn off the circuit.”
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Stupid Criminal Tricks
I’m just guessing here, but it seems to me that it isn’t a good idea to be seen drunk in public by police when you have a New York birth certificate containing a suspicious number of spelling errors and a New York ID card that also appears to have been forged. The chap also had three additional pieces of identification from Ohio -- all in different names -- hidden in one of his socks. (Tough to whip out those ID’s very quickly!) The Santa Monica Mirror said a computer check revealed that the mystery man was a wanted parolee. From Minnesota. I hated to drag you into this, Minnesota.
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miscelLAny
I’m hurt and I’m angered over reports that Sylvester Stallone has taken human growth hormones. And I want my money back -- I bet on Mr. T to knock him out in “Rocky III.”
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Steve Harvey can be reached at (800) LATIMES, Ext. 77083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by mail at Metro, L.A. Times, 202 W. 1st St., L.A. 90012, and by e-mail at [email protected]
