Your honor, we ask for the dismissal...

Your honor, we ask for the dismissal of fans in Rows 1 through 37: During a Lakers-Sonics playoff game the other night, the Forum crowd booed lustily when the scoreboard screen showed the mug of Robert Shapiro, defense attorney-about-town.

You may recall that when Shapiro’s face appeared on the Rose Bowl’s screen during a Rolling Stones concert, the spectators applauded.

Of course, that was more than 200 sidebars ago.

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Commitment to hostility: One other celebrity at the Laker game received almost as many boos as Shapiro--Al Davis, owner of the (fill in the name) Raiders.

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Scudder nonsense: In honor of Mother’s Day, the May issue of Orange Coast magazine devotes an article to Laura Scudder, whom it identifies as an “Orange County woman.”

We beg their pardon.

Scudder founded her potato chip business in 1926 in Monterey Park, which is very much a part of L.A. County.

Oddly enough, the Orange Coast article makes no reference to any Scudder roots in Orange County.

The Monterey Park Historical Museum, on the other hand, has a Laura Scudder Room, which plays a one-hour film about the “Potato Chip Queen of the West,” as the media called her.

It was Scudder who developed the principle of stuffing the chips into wax bags to keep them fresh. Before that, said Russ Paine of the city’s historical society, customers who wanted chips would get them “scooped out of a can.”

We’re sure Scudder’s chips also caught on in Orange County. Maybe that’s the connection.

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Called on the carpet: Juanita Gallardo of Rialto, who contributed today’s law enforcement report, points out that “this type of crime can really trip somebody up.”

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When booing an attorney wasn’t enough . . .: In the 1870s, some vigilantes headed “by a French barber named Signoret” decided that the law firm of Kewen & Howard was “too successful in defending criminals,” L.A. pioneer J. A. Graves later recalled.

The group, which had hanged four men held in the L.A. County Jail, resolved one evening to hang Kewen and Howard as well, Graves wrote in “My Seventy Years in California.”

The next day, Howard ran into Signoret on the street and asked if he was, indeed, on the vigilantes’ hit list.

Signoret replied that he was.

“Come, now, Signoret,” Howard said. “We are old friends. Be generous. Let’s compromise. Hang Kewen--he’s the head of the firm.”

miscelLAny “Driver Carries No Cash” signs on vehicles are common. But we spotted one that said, “Driver Carries No Cash Or Product .” It was on a Budweiser van.