Sappy Ending

Once upon a time, the governor of California said that he would put a prison in downtown Los Angeles on property commonly known as the Crown Coach site. The Legislature of California resisted because residents on the city’s Eastside did not want a prison that close to their neighborhood.

The governor and the legislators dug in their heels, said nasty things about one another and refused to compromise by, say, writing an environmental impact report on the prison project. While that was going on, other prisons, already filled to overflowing, just got fuller.

Then one day the owners of the Crown Coach site got tired of waiting and sold the property for an industrial park, and the governor and the Legislature had to start all over. The moral of the story is that if you leave any coach site sitting too long it will turn into a pumpkin.