Look Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Flying Burrito!

Here’s another episode you won’t see on “Cops.” Bill Howes of Seal Beach read it in the “Police Blotter” column of that city’s Sun newspaper:

“Pacific Coast Highway, 1:42 a.m.--A report of battery was unfounded when the bottle that a woman reported being thrown at her turned out to be a burrito.”

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WOULD SAN DIEGO SAY YAHOO? What’s this under L.A.’s Christmas tree? Another major league baseball team?

Well, Robert Butchko noticed this blockbuster on the Yahoo! News site:

“One major hurdle to the development of San Diego’s baseball-only stadium is removed. A San Diego judge is allowing the city to proceed with acquiring and developing a 40,000-square-foot parcel in downtown L.A.”

But why a new development for the L.A. Padres? They could play in the Coliseum, as the Dodgers did in the 1950s. The stadium’s left-field screen, 250 feet from home plate, must be sitting around in a warehouse somewhere.

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IT’S A WACKY LIFE: Pardon me for getting sentimental on you here, but I’d like to reprise a holiday standard. It’s a shot of a billboard revealing Santa’s bulging doughnut problem--atop a Winchell’s stand. (see photo).

Steve Harvey can be reached at (800) LATIMES Ext. 77083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by mail at Metro, L.A. Times, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053 and by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com.