Car Theft Foiled by Deputy’s Attention to Detail
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Details, details. A not-so-observant thief changed the rear license plate of the car he stole and was so confident about the ruse that he chatted with a sheriff’s deputy at a Paramount gas station. One problem: The deputy noticed that the front plate hadn’t been changed, Paramount’s City Talk newsletter reported. The suspect was arrested and the car was returned to the real owner -- with a full tank.
What won’t they think of next? Carolyn Levine of Newhall came across an ad for a high-tech piece of solar equipment (see right). Looks too complicated for me to operate.
Driving-away “oops!”: Phil Azelton of Westwood was cruising down the Ventura Freeway in his MGB roadster, with the top down, when “somehow I managed to knock my glasses clean off my face, back over my shoulder to God knows where. Since I don’t see too well without the specs, I started to panic.
“Still moving along at 65 mph, I looked in the rearview mirror, and to my astonishment, saw the glasses sitting squarely on top of the trunk. Since the MG is a short car, I was able to stretch back with one hand and grab them before they flew completely off. That was a lucky day.”
Speaking of unusual physical exertions: “I have been a registered nurse for 40-some years,” wrote Catherine Bandy of Woodland Hills, “and yet I could not follow the orders my physician gave me for this latest medication” (see left).
Poster boy of driving-away “oops!”: The confessions here of absent-minded motorists prompted Charles Mont to dig up an appropriate Times comic of a several months ago (see right). Mont confesses he once duplicated the experience of the chap in the cartoon.
Shaqless in SoCal: Among the winners in the limericks contest staged by the L.A. Downtown News was Kevin McLaughlin’s sad ditty about a local basketball team:
There once was a team named the Clippers
Who shot as if their hands were flippers
The owner was cheap
So the bench was not deep
And the fans cried, “Why can’t we get a new skipper?”
A real “oops!” operation.
miscelLAny: The invitations for a Humane Society event in Beverly Hills said: “Black tie optional. No fur coats please -- leave them on their original owners.”
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