Why Don’t They Put Up a Neon Sign That Says ‘Arrests Made Here’?

The book, “Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest,” recounts the arrest of 20 would-be drug buyers by Huntington Beach cops posing as dealers. “I’ll tell you how bright these people are,” a Huntington Beach officer recalled. “We actually had people coming up and getting in line [to buy drugs] when we had people [under arrest and handcuffed] on the ground.”

One woman tried to make a purchase from “a uniformed officer wearing a jacket with the word “police” spelled out in 8-inch letters.”

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ONE FEWER SMILE IN SOUTHLAND: In 1998, Edwin F. Parsons Jr. noticed a Hancock Park mansion with a Greco/Happy Face architectural style. Parsons went back recently and found that one of the smiling heads was gone. And the survivor seemed to be winking (see photos). I wish I could put Groucho Marx on this case.

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THERE WERE 100 TAILS IN THE NAKED CITY: I was perhaps premature in decrying the absence of streakers welcoming the 2000s.

A gentleman who identifies himself as Randall Tin-Ear says that about 100 individuals gathered in the nude at 6:50 Saturday morning on Hill Street in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles “to greet the first sunrise of the new year.”

While video cameras were recording the scene, Tin-Ear says, “a cop drove by, and, although he looked squarely at us, he did not even tap his brakes.”

Perhaps this was the kind of spectacle L.A. needed to liven up the mayor’s boring show at the Hollywood sign.