Where Was Her Head When She Decided to Go Out Wearing a Green Outfit?

The Huntington Beach Independent’s police log said “a person reported that there was a headless life-size blow-up doll across the street wearing a green outfit.”

Here’s the part I don’t understand: Why green? It doesn’t go with anything.

Guide to Adventurous Dining: Today’s specimens (see accompanying) include:

* A sightless watermelon (submitted by Patrick Manfredi of Rosemead). I like the concept; I hate it when I’m eating a melon and it’s staring back at me.

* An expensive place to hold a barbecue (sent by my most frequent contributor, “Anonymous”).

* Some of the hottest wines on the market (from Sandy and Jeanie Gaynor of L.A.).

* A food merchant who had the misfortune to share a marquee next to a less-than-appetizing business (photo by Jerry Lewine of Agoura Hills).

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Unclear on the concept: In four cases, drivers were summoned to court and had their licenses suspended. And what did they do then? They got back in their cars and drove away, the Long Beach Press-Telegram said. But they didn’t get very far before they were arrested.

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No best-actor nomination here: “The Thin Blue Line,” an LAPD publication, recounted how a robbery suspect escaped during questioning by police and fled into the apartment of a friend.

When officers arrived, the man “tried to pretend that he had just gotten out of bed. The suspect, in an attempt to evade the officers, shaved his mustache, but left the razor with hair in it, in the kitchen.” Neatness does count.

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The sky must have been falling: On the CHP traffic logs, Vince Stickel read about this unfolding freeway chase on Interstate 15:

“11:17 a.m.: TK [truck] is loaded w/crates of live chickens.

“11:17 a.m.: One of the crates is open and driver is losing chickens one by one in the rdwy.

“11:29 a.m.: Now 5 mi [miles out], pulled over trying to catch chickens.”

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Lagunatics Dept.: The Coastline Pilot of Laguna Beach said “a resident reported that two people were walking around in strange costumes at 11 a.m. One was dressed in a witch hat and mask; the other was wearing a devil mask and cape.”

The witness must be a new resident. That’s hardly strange for Laguna Beach.

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miscelLANy: Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully told listeners he knew it had been a long season when the mascot of one team sponsor cropped up in his dream the other night. Said the incredulous Scully: “I dreamt about the AFLAC duck.”

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