They’re Hot on His Trail, but Frankly, We’re Convinced It’s Just a Dead End

Semi-amazing but very true.

* It’s said that, once the FBI gets on your tail, nothing stops them until you’re brought to justice.

Maybe that explains why one of those indicted last week in Las Vegas in a drug conspiracy along with San Diego small-fry Mafioso Chris Petti is a dead man. Been dead for many months.

It’s apparently not the first time a deceased defendant has been brought up on charges.

“We have a category called ‘dead indicted individuals,’ ” an FBI spokesman explains. Honest.

The dead co-conspirator is Bernard (Bebe) Posner of Miami. He’s said to have expired while “occupied” with a much younger woman on the beach.

* The campaign signs for 73rd Assembly District hopeful William Morrow of Oceanside suffered some odd vandalism in the final stretch of the primary race.

It’s not uncommon for people to deface political signs with unflattering untruths.

But someone plastered Morrow signs in Carlsbad and Oceanside with bumper sticker-sized placards consisting of a one-word message reminding voters of what Morrow does for a living: “Attorney.”

He won the Republican nomination anyway.

* Word has it that Fallbrook racist Tom Metzger plans to crash next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors workshop sponsored by Supervisor Leon Williams: “Hate Crimes and Race: Human Relations in San Diego County.”

* Not happy: Gayle Falkenthal, producer of the Roger Hedgecock talk show on KSDO radio.

Before Ed Meese came on the show Monday to push his book, Falkenthal got two calls from someone identifying himself as Ronald Reagan. She hung up.

The calls turned out to be a gag by Rick Rumble at KCLX, KSDO’s FM sister station. The (brief) conversations were broadcast live on KCLX.

Falkenthal won’t give her opinion of being the butt of Rumble’s joke, but she has passed judgment on his Reagan imitation: “Not very good.”

* When he taught at UCSD in 1985-86, mayoral candidate Peter Navarro got a glowing review from the student-run magazine that evaluates professors.

Including the comment: “His interactive style was great, especially when he threw candy at us.”

A Fishy Concoction

Words have meaning (also value). Pass it on.

* Waitress at the Rusty Pelican in La Jolla explaining the sauce on the swordfish: “It’s like a teriyaki except more complex.”

* Department of Bad Ideas.

The Escondido Times Advocate is handing out red-white-and-blue “Times Advocate Press Pass” cards to subscribers. Can be flashed for discounts.

* San Diego auditions for Bill Cosby’s latest venture, an updated “You Bet Your Life” TV game show, are set for Saturday and Sunday (call 692-5961).

The show is looking for oddball hobbies, out-of-kilter personal histories, weird viewpoints, etc. (so naturally it came to San Diego).

The competition is tough: A woman in Houston who built a house from beer cans has already been signed up.

The Groucho Marx format has been updated. When the show starts this fall, the “secret word” will be worth $500, up from $50.

* Councilman George Stevens, who was known as Chaka in the radical 1960s, knows the value of labels.

He’s determined to stop the media and public from using the name Southeast San Diego, which has become synonymous with gangs and “film at 11.”

He conducted a straw poll for a new name and now will conduct a public “pine box funeral” for the old name June 20, starting at Ragsdale Mortuary and proceeding to Mt. Hope Cemetery.

* The British tabloids love San Diego’s arrow-in-the-head story.

* The first 22 members of the Rancho Bernardo Retired Seniors Volunteer Patrol have been trained by the San Diego Police Dept. and begin work next week.

Their duties are listed as “non-confrontational”: house checking, shut-in calls, crime prevention.

* Where would you advertise if you were active-duty mohel Rabbi Daniel Korobkin?

On the baby page of the San Diego Jewish Times: “Trained & certified by the chief mohel of Jerusalem.”

And the One at Home Watched Cable

Hana Wexler, 2, of Encinitas thinks the first line of a familiar rhyme says: “This little piggy went to Target. “