The Los Angeles Police Department is so...

The Los Angeles Police Department is so well-known these days that it even inspired a float in the 4th of July Parade hundreds of miles away in Lake Bluff, Ill.

“We were trying to think of something relevant to spoof and we thought of the LAPD,” explained float organizer Kraig Moreland, an advertising sales rep. But we think Moreland’s pranksters went too far. They depicted uniformed cops in two old, repainted LAPD black-and-whites slugging it out with . . .

Zsa Zsa Gabor.

We thought everyone knew that Zsa Zsa’s sparring partner was a Beverly Hills cop.

Moreland won’t be able to cover up this gross historical error, either. It was videotaped by numerous spectators.

Don Savage of Thousand Oaks points out that on the Ventura Freeway in Agoura Hills there’s a pair of familiar-looking arches atop a McDonald’s billboard--a McDonald Motor Car Co. billboard. Owner Ed McDonald notes that he was there first. Then the hamburger of the same name parked around the corner.

Introducing the Bunker Hill Fox, L.A.’s sequel to Orange County’s Freeway Foxes.

The gray critter was spotted darting into a storage room at California Plaza II, an office-hotel complex under construction.

“He just ran across here, about 25 pounds, medium size, gray,” said pipe fitter Carolo Aguirre. “He was just scared. So we shut the door on him. He was just running away from everybody.”

The city Bureau of Animal Regulation, which fetched the animal, wonders how the intruder wound up in the village of glass-and-steel skyscrapers.

“It appears to be on the tame side,” said spokesman Dyer Huston. “It might even be a registered pet. I’m not sure we would release it into the wilds again. If no one comes forward to claim it, we might send it to the Wildlife Way Station.”

And, now, the latest on the Freeway Foxes, whose home alongside the Costa Mesa Freeway attracted nationwide attention a few weeks ago.

You may recall that in our last installment, the seven red foxes were taken to the L.A. Zoo, no doubt so they could be near the reassuring sounds of the Golden State Freeway.

Two of the female pups have since been transferred to the Orange County Zoo and two others will soon be sent to a zoo in Merced.

The remaining three--Mama Freeway Fox, a female pup and a male pup--are still at the L.A. Zoo. Members of the public will have an opportunity to “adopt” them and to name them for a fee at a fund-raiser later this year.

The Orange County Zoo, meanwhile, is holding a contest to rename its new foxes now. Among the entries, so far: Off-ramp and On-ramp.

MiscelLAny:

Survey Sampling Inc. says that 59.9% of the phones in the L.A.-Long Beach area have unlisted numbers, the highest rate in the nation. Las Vegas (58.3%) and Oakland (58.2%)are next. The national average: About 33%.