Are These Fashion-Savvy Suspects Wearing T-Shirts or Freudian Slips?
Is it a subconscious wish to be apprehended? Or just a poor sense of fashion? You have to wonder about the prophetic slogans on the shirts of some people booked into jail, as featured in the Star News, a Sheriff’s Department publication. For instance:
* “Dealers” (a convicted drug dealer)
* “I’m Lying”
* “Fugitive (You Never Saw Me)”
* “No Time Out, Just Spank Me”
* “Intelligent Hoodlum”
* “Life’s Too Short for Traffic” (a convicted auto thief)
And, finally, on a related note, there was the Scott Turow novel that one inmate was spotted reading: “Pleading Guilty.”
Laguna Confidential: The slam-bang police log of the city’s News-Post carried this item: “Two neighbors who got into an argument over taking clothes out of the washer called police and asked to sign a statement for a private person’s citizen’s arrest.”
Guide to Adventurous Dining: In keeping with today’s edgy theme, the specials du column (see accompanying) include:
* A menu that seems to warn of scary individuals -- and a sandy dining area (Bill Crookston of Santa Monica).
* An eatery that takes the expression “fast food” to new lengths (Gary Pollak of Woodland Hills).
* A less-than-appetizing intersection in Idaho (Don Kessler of Whittier).
But This Is the City of Angels: So we’re also serving up a sacred bread bowl (Sara Meric of Santa Monica).
Never-say-die attitude: Salvatrice Her of Upland says that stepsister Franci phoned a catalog publisher to report that her mother was “deceased” and didn’t need any more mailings.
“Oh, she doesn’t live there any more?” the catalog rep asked.
“My mother is deceased,” Franci repeated.
“Oh, then, can you give me her forwarding address?” the rep asked.
(Which makes me wonder -- is there junk mail in heaven? Surely there’s lots of it in the other place.)
MiscelLAny: A Shirley Temple or Roy Rogers it ain’t. L.A.’s Biltmore Hotel is creating a drink to memorialize one of the city’s most publicized murder cases: a Black Dahlia cocktail.
The Black Dahlia was the nickname given to aspiring actress Elizabeth Short before her 1947 murder, which was never solved. She vanished after being dropped off at the Biltmore.
Asked what ingredients would go into the drink, bartender Greg Guzelian would say only, “Management and bartenders are working on it.”
Last call, indeed.
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