A Domestic Dispute Case or a Food Fight? It’s All Relative
In the Huntington Beach Independent, Rosemary Le Forte recently spotted this police log item: “A fight between a mother and her daughter was reported.... It was found they were only having a food fight.”
Nice to know that some families still set aside time to heave dinner together.
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Cheesy service: Louis Mata of Pico Rivera ordered a regular hamburger at a Diamond Bar stand and was surprised later when he noticed what it was called on his sales slip (see accompanying). And doubly surprised to find that he’d been charged for a cheeseburger.
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Meatwagon: The Los Alamitos News-Enterprise said Seal Beach police received a call from residents alleging that “someone, possibly someone they knew, taped bologna all over their gray Honda Odyssey.” That’s a scene that would give me a good case of food fright.
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Wrong image: John Holly of Palos Verdes Estates noticed that a South Bay phone directory listed a medical firm in the wrong category (see accompanying).
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You think health costs are high now? Well, consider the bill that Joseph Linsman of L.A. received earlier this century (see accompanying).
I hate it when you think your accounts are square and you receive a surprise $300-million bill.
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Footloose advertising? In Hong Kong, Raymond Kissack of Santa Monica encountered a shop that declared that one world leader and one ex-world leader wear the same size and brand of shoes (see photo). Those assertions, by the way, could not be confirmed at press time.
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Readers on the road (cont.): “There is a sign in an airport gift shop in Belize,” reported Venita Selters of Glendale, “that says, ‘Shoplifters will be beaten, stabbed, and mutilated. Survivors will be prosecuted.’ ”
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Name game: Officers in Victorville arrested David Bangs on suspicion of possessing explosive devices in his truck, the local Daily Press reported.
Among the items found was a 500-pound bomb. How did the cops know it was a 500-pound bomb? “It’s actually written right on there, ‘500 pound bomb,’ ” Deputy James Monjian said. “It’s stamped on there, and it says it was manufactured in 1975.”
Luckily it turned out to be a dummy bomb.
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miscelLAny: The observation here that Costa Mesa has no coastline reminded Kathy Kuczynski of El Toro of “the cruise my husband and I took several years ago. The comedian on the ship stated in his routine that Costa Mesa was Spanish for ‘edge of the shopping center.’ ” She added: “And South Coast Plaza was only about half its present size.”
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