Lawyers and Reality: Unlikely Story Line?

Objection! A company called Renegade 83 Entertainment is looking for “attractive” lawyers between 25 and 35 for a reality TV show that will follow a group of legal beagles for three months.

“Finally, the viewing public will get the chance to vote lawyers ‘off the island,’ ” cracked the L.A. Daily Journal.

NO ONE FLAGGED THIS ENTRANT: Apparently the Republicans didn’t conduct a background check on Ski Demski’s 47-by-82-foot flag, which will be carried along Pennsylvania Avenue in George W. Bush’s inaugural parade on Saturday. Had they investigated, they would have found out that Demski’s Stars and Stripes was in the news a decade ago as (drum roll) . . .

The Flag That Long Beach Tried to Ban!

On holidays and other special occasions, the patriotic Demski was in the habit of flying it from the 132-foot pole in his front yard. Some neighbors complained that it flapped too noisily in the wind, and he was charged with several counts of disturbing the peace. But a judge threw out the case, freeing Demski to fly Old Glory.

No doubt Demski’s flag will receive a warmer reaction from Washington than it did from Long Beach.

MAYBE THE SKY’S FALLING: “Those free-range chickens have gone berserk,” commented Valerie Fields. She and several other readers, including Charles Thompson and Herbert Schoenberg, had a wildlife sighting in a market flyer (see accompanying).

IT DEFINITELY WASN’T A HORSE: The Los Alamitos News-Enterprise’s police log carried an item that fits into the when-pigs-fly category (see accompanying).

ON THE ROAD: In Texas, Ernest Sundberg of Santa Barbara noticed a walkway warning that was redundant, considering the sign above it (see photo).

STUPID DRIVER OF THE DAY: “My wife and in-laws were westbound on the Ventura Freeway when we observed a 30-something man behind the wheel with a video camera planted in front of his face,” writes Don Wallace of Calabasas. “Apparently, he was videotaping the happy condition of freeway traffic actually moving. Perhaps he had never observed this phenomenon and wanted to share it with friends and family.”

Let’s hope he didn’t tape his own rear-end collision.

WARNING: ACCOUNTANT ON BOARD! Norman Blanco of Fountain Valley saw a driver cruising along about 60 mph in the slow lane of the Costa Mesa Freeway in a well-lighted car. When he passed her, he saw that she had a dangling cord connected to a bright light.

“She was counting bills of money,” Blanco said. “I honked at her and she looked at me as though I had a problem.”

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When he first put his 17,000-artifact Banana Museum on sale several months ago, Ken Bannister was asking $920,000. With no takers, the cost slipped to $750,000 for the Altadena-based shrine and a bunch of trademarks and Web site domains. Bannister said then he was through peeling back the price. But, hey, that was last century. Now Bannister says the landmark is available on EBay for $650,000.

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