Humboldt County Police Offer Tip: Don’t Let the Criminals in the House

Crime (and sometimes punishment).

* Fred and Sandy McMullen of San Diego, just back from rural Humboldt County, forward a police blotter item from the Arcata Union newspaper:

“A man reported two subjects eating his food and asking him for money when he lets them in his house. An officer advised him not to let them in the house anymore.”

Country cops have all the answers.

* There’s talk at San Diego City Hall about a possible ordinance that would bar men who are under court restraining orders in domestic violence cases from owning guns.

A similar law has been tried in Boston, reportedly with some success.

* The state ($11,381) and federal governments ($4,154) both have tax liens waiting for Dick Silberman, who hasn’t paid any income tax since his 1989 arrest.

The liens were filed in 1991 and 1992. Too late it turned out, because Silberman sold his last piece of property in 1990 for $920,000, a La Jolla home he once shared with then-wife Susan Golding.

For the record: Silberman is still in federal prison at Boron and scheduled for release Oct. 26, 1993.

And what is the onetime principal player in the Jack ‘n’ the Box restaurant chain doing while in the slam?

Working in the prison mess hall.

* The television program “Unsolved Mysteries” plans a segment on the 1989 bombing of the van driven by Sharon Rogers, the wife of Navy Capt. Will Rogers.

* Hack hack, you’re under arrest.

Sheriff’s deputies in Poway think they’ve caught the radio hacker who’s been using a restricted frequency to make false fire calls.

Deputies put out a false call of their own. When a guy showed up at site of the phony fire, he and his equipment-laden car were busted.

* It turns out that not everyone is mad at the naughty boys from Tailhook.

The city of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has issued a formal invitation for the Tailhook Assn. to bring its next convention there.

Maybe just in time for the spring break pilgrimage by college students.

Tapping Into Power Lunches

Look here.

* Leighton Worthey, the irrepressible 19-year-old songwriter and politician manque , has a new project: eating lunch (one-by-one) with 41 notable San Diegans.

For a book about the city’s past and future, to be entitled “Out To Lunch.”

* An alumni group at the University of San Diego law school plans a party Sept. 18 at Sea World to include the Shark Exhibit.

Utility watchdog Michael Shames finds the venue appropriate, given the law school’s reputation for sharp-toothed grads.

He can talk that way: he’s law class of ’82.

* Biological warfare.

The 1,000-butterfly Butterfly Encounter at the Wild Animal Park is under attack by aphids, probably stowaways from tropical plants brought in for the exhibit.

The park can’t spray with pesticides because it could kill both butterflies and plants. So instead a battalion of 72,000 ladybugs has been released with orders to eat aphids morning, noon and night.

How do you buy 72,000 ladybugs?

“By the gallon,” says a park spokesman.

* All the world’s a stage (and a fat farm).

The Old Globe production of “Two Gentleman of Verona” closed this weekend, but its fanciful set of green fans, blue and yellow streamers, and Japanese lanterns didn’t stay idle long.

The set was used immediately as the backdrop for a 60-minute exercise video produced by Deborah Szekely. She’s the founder of the Golden Door spa and a longtime patron of the Old Globe.

* How confident is San Diego Councilman Bob Filner that he’ll win his race for Congress?

He and his wife, Jane Merrill, have already begun looking for a house in the Washington area.

French Cars Dream Too

Multi-cultural (vehicular) diversity.

License frame on a Subaru in North Park: “Quand je serai grande, je serai une Cadillac.”

Loosely translated, “When I grow up, I’ll be a Cadillac.”