This weapon was captured on film: When...

This weapon was captured on film: When we turned on our TV set at 9:25 Thursday morning, stations 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11 were covering the evidentiary hearing in the O.J. Simpson murder case.

Channel 13--”very independent 13,” as it likes to call itself--was content to be showing a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon. But it was exciting, too. When we tuned in, two mice were being chased by a gun-waving cat.

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Oh, Mann’s! L.A. may be getting another world-class tourist attraction.

Coliseum officials, thankful for the political support they have received, are considering inviting members of the City Council and the County Board of Supervisors to leave their handprints and signatures in the concrete of the renovated stadium.

Wasn’t there a place in Hollywood that had a similar idea? No matter.

We can imagine people coming from all over the world to match their paw prints with those of such charismatic celebrities as Marvin Braude and Mike Antonovich.

But even if it doesn’t catch on with the tourist buses, we think the monument will be worth it if only because it kept the politicos’ hands out of the taxpayers’ wallets for a few minutes.

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The devil you say: A bungalow on the Cal State Northridge campus has attracted some attention with its nameplate, which lists a three-digit number that also denotes Satan in the Bible’s Book of Revelation (see photo). One day, recalled school librarian Margie Roblin, a man walked into the bungalow, an information center set up after the Jan. 17 quake. “He asked if we were the satanic studies department,” Roblin said. “One of the staff shot back, ‘No, this is information from hell!’ ”

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The yak-yak circuit: If you were afraid that TV was running out of offbeat characters to interview, relax.

Chris Darryn of the National Talk Show Guest Registry in Reseda, a computer bank that supplies names to producers, has signed up the following characters:

* Ken Johnson of Granada Hills, self-styled Master Maker of Mechanical Mirth, who “was once arrested for entering a mechanical flying chicken in a Rio Grande, Ohio, contest featuring real flying chickens.”

* Herb Lasker of Sunrix, Fla., who is “waging a one-man crusade on behalf of women” who are discriminated against because their toenails and fingernails exceed 26 inches in length.

* And George Reiger of Easton, Pa., who calls himself the “biggest Disney fan in the world, having spent over $5,000 having his body tattooed with more than 100 Disney characters, and another $200,000 to visit Disneyland and Disney World more than 125 times. When he dies, he intends to have his ashes scattered over the Seven Seas Lagoon in Disney World.”

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Under the sea: Dorothy Hole of Altadena saw a car in her neighborhood with a license plate frame that declared:

“Happiness is living in Big Bear Lake.”

We’d prefer the Seven Seas Lagoon.

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The class catalogue for the West L.A.-based Learning Annex lists “Mind over Metal,” a $29 class taught by Diana Gazes, an international spiritual trainer and healer who reputedly succeeds in teaching “85% of her participants . . . to bend forks or spoons” with their minds. The catalogue asks attendees to “please bring three or four spoons or forks.” Obviously not plastic ones.