Some Thieves Show No Mercy, Not Even for Delicate Appetizers

For our Only-on-the-Westside subsection, Marna Bierschenk of Pacific Palisades passed along a burglary item from the Palisadian-Post about a thief who removed some goods valued at $51 from a car. The goods: shrimp.

Unreal estate: “Are they trying to keep Californians away from Oregon?” asked Jack Acosta of Claremont. He pointed out that an ad for some property in our not-always-welcoming neighboring state to the north mentioned a garage that’s been the victim of violence (see accompanying).

Mystery solved: As for the photo of the difficult-to-scale hotel entrance in Kentucky that appeared here last week (see photo), Bill Vos of Claremont clued me in:

“That is the carriage entrance. A genteel lady could step from her horse-drawn carriage directly onto the hotel steps without getting her shoes or dress dirty, or muddy, on the streets of yesteryear.” With my luck, back then I’d have been the passerby the carriage splashed with mud.

New mystery: Roger Duncan of Coarsegold, Calif., swears that he spotted this flashing warning sign on Interstate 5 in northern L.A. County: LEBEC EXIT -- WOMEN IN OUTDOORS.

“They were obviously announcing some kind of temporary hazard and naturally, I slowed to observe, but saw nothing,” Duncan said.

A politically incorrect sign about female workers -- somewhat akin to the old “Men in Trees” signs?

I phoned Caltrans and a public relations person was unable to come up with an answer.

As always in these cases, my guess is that it was a gag sign for a movie.

Such a deal: An anonymous reader wanted me to know about an offer being made by an organization in Claremont (see accompanying). Thanks, but I’m not ready.

Freeway Obstacle du Jour: Jennifer Burns of KFWB-AM (980) speculated that perhaps a motorist had had just about enough of an uncooperative machine and “tossed it out the window.”

That’s why morning rush-hour traffic on the Ventura Freeway was disrupted by the presence of a computer that crashed in a lane.

miscelLAny: While the Dodgers and the Angels were fighting it out at Dodger Stadium for bragging rights to the city of L.A., the real ruler of this metropolis was actually proving his dominance at Hollywood Park (see accompanying). Forgot to check if the King of L.A. is really based in Anaheim.