Feuding Neighbors Find Litter Problem Makes It Tough to Mend Fences
The dispute began some time after Duke hopped the fence and mated with Lassie in Paramount. Duke’s owner phoned the L.A. County sheriff’s station to complain that her neighbor wouldn’t give her one of Lassie’s puppies, the city’s newsletter reported.
The authorities declined to intervene, but I see a messy custody suit once the lawyers get involved. (Incidentally, I changed the name of the parents so the puppies wouldn’t be razzed by classmates in Obedience School.)
Harvey’s Hall of Curiosities: Today’s exhibits (see above) include:
* An occupancy sign evidently directed at some people who aren’t feeling 100% (David Beraru of Woodland Hills).
* An eyeglass offer that is pretty fuzzy (Lorraine Jones of Fullerton).
* A phone number for officers who will, however, not emerge (Joseph Klein of Pacific Palisades).
* And, finally, a long-legged type of goat spotted in Hawaii (Jim and Karlyn Musante of Malibu).
Signs of spring? In Long Beach’s Beachcomber, columnist Steve Propes wrote that there was a slight disturbance at a local park, where a picnicking couple “got involved in an amorous interlude.”
The problem was “a hungry squirrel approached the blanket and managed to pick up a section of their French roll and head toward his tree lair.”
The couple began to fling objects at the squirrel, which wasn’t as cruel as it might seem, because at least the projectiles scared away some crows that were dive-bombing the tree in an attempt to go home as bread-winners.
This love story won’t inspire a Hallmark special, either: Police on patrol in Laguna Beach saw a couple being chased by a man who yelled that they had “just stole something,” the Laguna News-Post said. The officers gave chase, whereupon the couple took off in different directions. The male half of the duo was captured.
The original pursuer explained that he worked in a restaurant and that the couple had been discovered, well, snuggling in the women’s room.
When they were evicted from that sanctuary, they fled without paying their bill. I think this couple is for the birds, too.
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