Indecent Exposure Incident Has Rangers Seeking Victim

Ways to get noticed.

* When a woman in her 20s complained to rangers at Torrey Pines State Beach that she had been flashed by a bearded guy wearing a raincoat (and nothing else), rangers flew into action.

They spotted a guy carrying what turned out to be a gym bag full of, well, plastic marital aids. A chase ensued as the suspect tried to escape by scaling the cliffs (which is against the law).

The rangers finally got their man: a 29-year-old with a history of indecent exposure.

But in the hubbub, the woman left without leaving her name. No victim, no case.

Rangers now are putting out the word. Any woman who was flashed last week should call 755-2063.

* The old cooler flambeau trick.

At 1:30 on a recent morning, San Diego lifeguards got a 911 emergency call from a guy who said breathlessly that he had just spotted a boat on fire about half a mile off the Crystal Pier.

Lifeguards jumped into their fireboat at Mission Bay. The Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter.

Did they find a burning boat? Not really.

What they found were two guys in a 16-foot boat with a conked-out motor. As an SOS, they had put their beer cooler adrift on a rope and set it aflame.

Their first words to their rescuers: “Call our wives, please.”

* North County bumper sticker: “Eat Beans, Not Beings.”

* Last week was student government election week at San Dieguito High School in Encinitas, with slogan-bearing banners everywhere you looked on campus. Some displaying a unique approach to politics.

Like this one from Jessica Allen, running for “commissioner of clubs”: “If You Like Silly Putty, Vote for Someone Who Likes It Too.”

* There’s a move at the San Diego City Council to get the Legislature to name a portion of California 56 in the city’s northern reaches--if it’s ever built--after baseball great (and San Diego native) Ted Williams.

* Yes, Channel 8 did finish a segment on learning disabilities by flashing a help number on the screen beneath the words “ Learing Disabilities.”

Keeping Close Tabs on Classifieds

The employment picture.

* How many jobless people are out there?

Enough that the Escondido library now puts the classified ad sections of the Sunday newspaper behind the reference desk and makes people ask for them.

That way the help-wanted ads don’t disappear.

This from retired Navy Cmdr. David L. (Matt) Dillon, who signs himself “another of the job-seeking legions.”

* Robin Leach (“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”) is fronting for the Micro Diet put out by Carlsbad-based Uni-Vite Inc.:

“The diet I’m following is very tasty. I don’t feel like a Medieval monk doing penance for lewd thoughts.”

* The story line of “Mr. Jones,” the Richard Gere-Lena Olin movie shooting in San Diego, has Gere as a mental patient and Olin as a shrink.

The mental institution scenes are being shot at Salk Institute in La Jolla.

* Dick Rider, chairman emeritus of the local Libertarian Party, has decided: He’s a candidate for the 3rd District seat on the County Board of Supervisors.

Fred Schnaubelt, a fellow Libertarian who served a term on the San Diego City Council, will be campaign chairman.

* Bob McDonald, 56, the last San Diego cop to wear a hat, joined the Police Department the same year as Bob Burgreen.

Burgreen rose through the ranks to become chief. McDonald stayed a street cop, which suits him fine:

“Burgreen and I have one thing in common: We both have gone as far as we’re going to go in this department.”

Lovelorn in the Lockup

You may have seen an ad in a local lovelorn column:

“White male 40 seeks white female. Possible marriage. Should love travel, music and dining out. Send photo and phone number to . . . “

The ad man may indeed like travel and dining out, but his travel plans are a bit limited these days and he’s going to be dining in for several years.

Not mentioned in the ad is the fact that he’s just been convicted of raping a woman in El Cajon at gunpoint and is in County Jail awaiting another rape trial.

He’s looking at 20-plus years in state prison.