Burglar Alarm Caused All Manner of Caterwauling in Laguna Beach House

Cat got your line? The police log of the Coastline Pilot in Laguna Beach carried this item: “Skyline Drive: Police responded to a house alarm in the 1500 block at 3:23 p.m. They determined that one of the 12 cats living there may have set it off.”

The item didn’t specify which of the 12 felines was concerned about one of its nine lives. I’d investigate, but the math’s too much for me.

Guide to adventurous dining: Carol Orendy of Cathedral City came upon a restaurant whose theme might be, “Here’s mud in your eye.” And Ralph Terrones of L.A. saw an ad mentioning a breakfast dish with a bite (see accompanying).

Unclear on the concept: Ryan Hsu of Huntington Beach and Harry Hornett of San Juan Capistrano each noticed an ad for some speakers that was filled with double talk (see accompanying).

Traveler’s advisory: “Hey, good buddy,” Jim Moore of Nipomo warns the truckers of the world. “Better get the engine in that rig a good tuneup before you use this road” (see photo).

Land battle: House-shopping can be such a pain, points out Mike McGinnis of Huntington Beach, as evidenced by this police log entry in the Irvine World News: “6:46 p.m. Criminal threat; seller of a home contacted potential buyer and told him that if he didn’t come back, she was going to have someone ‘break his legs by Friday.’ ”

Nude descending a curb: Mitzi Lawson was stopped at a red light in West Los Angeles when she saw a young woman in “what looked like a beige outfit” crossing the street. Lawson thought that the outfit was so tight “it looked like she had nothing on.” In fact, she did have nothing on.

The woman crossed the street to a gas station where there were some flags planted and pulled one out. “I don’t know if she was going to cover herself with it or not because the light changed and I had to drive on,” Lawson said.

What struck Lawson was that as the nude woman walked through traffic, “nobody honked, nobody crashed into each other like they do in the movies.” I guess Angelenos have seen it all.

Mystery solved: Virginia Hawker of Newport Beach is one of many readers who’ve been puzzled by airline ads that describe some L.A.-to-Hawaii flights as “nonstop.” Sally Brown of Costa Mesa wondered whether the alternative was a pontoon.

Actually, the “nonstop” notation is made because some L.A.-Hawaii flights stop to pick up passengers in San Francisco.

miscelLAny: I had a lot of cop stuff in the column today because I was inspired by the return of TV’s “Dragnet” and Officer Joe Friday. My favorite line of his Sunday night was -- “Mulholland Drive at night: the best view in L.A., unless you’re dead.”

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