Rabbit That Died in Pacific Palisades Wasn’t Shot, Just Winded

The poor creature accompanying this column is not -- I repeat, not -- a victim of a Mission Viejo pellet gunman (see photo). As you no doubt read, the City Council in that burg has given residents in one retirement community permission to gun down the marauding bunnies that gnaw on shrubs and soil lawns. This creature, snapped a while back by Brad Alan Lewis, dwelt in Pacific Palisades, where residents getting rid of bunnies only let the air out of them.

Guide to Adventurous Dining: The specials du column -- we have omitted rabbit dishes -- include (see accompanying):

* A corned beef selection that is supposed to be cooked so long that it turns into something else (submitted by Will Owen and B. Jeffress).

* And a truck with a dining area (submitted by Margaret Connors).

A sighting of Bigfoot in Orange County? The crime log in the Aliso Viejo News carried a complaint about a suspicious “van with the window missing from the driver’s side and tinted passenger windows. It was occupied by a male with a red hairy arm out the window.”

Who loves ya, reader? Well, some Variety subscribers didn’t love the promotional suckers wrapped in a full-page ad for the remake of TV’s “Kojak.” The suckers “stuck up the circulation works” Thursday morning, reported the laobserved.com website of writer Kevin Roderick.

Some subscribers “didn’t get their morning fix until late Thursday.” Added Roderick: “One reader who finally got his paper late in the afternoon, lollipops intact, e-mailed that he was happy they got the problem licked.”

Tissue issues: An L.A. Daily Journal article on Superior Court Judge Kelvin Filer of Compton mentioned that his mother, Blondell Filer, was active in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, and still makes picket signs for various causes.

One sign years ago called for a boycott of a paper company’s products over its hiring practices. It said: “Leave Zee Towels on zee shelf.”

miscelLAny: The Beach Reporter said a man was seen “uprooting flowers and plants” at a business in Hermosa Beach the other night. Police spotted him on the street and chased him down. The suspect’s palms were dirty with topsoil and his clothes were stained from the plants. In other words, he was caught green-handed.