OC WEEKLY Vol. 10 No. 42 June 24 - 30, 2005
Diary of a Mad County by STEVE LOWERY Thursday, June 16 I feel the earth move under my seat while eating lunch in the office. Oh man, thats an earthquake, says Theo Douglas, but I dont pay much mind to Theo, and I mean ever. But when I see the blood drain from fearless reporter Scott Moxleys face, I get nervous. Scott, whos not originally from California, says, What are we supposed to do? To which I, a native Californian, begin to pace in ever-tightening circles, much in the same manner as brain-damaged zoo animals. My usual response during an earthquake is Lemme sleep five more minutes, Mom. Sylmar quake? Slept through it. Northridge? Dont remember Northridge, except that after it was over I had to go out and talk to people whose windows had been broken by the quake and ask them what they were going to do and they all said, Get new windows. I wrote that for the paper I was working for at the time, and they ran it as part of an article about local heroism. Now, I do know one thing youre supposed to have in case of an earthquake is a flashlight, and this may explain why a good deal of the Garden Grove Police Department shows up at the Westminster home of Theresa Dang today. Or they may just be screwing with her. The cops are on high alert because word on the street is that Dang took an officers flashlightDUH DUH DUUUUUUH!!!which has Homeland Security officials considering raising the terror level to eggshell. The cops say they have videotape of Dang taking the flashlight during a demonstration against Minuteman leader Jim Gilchrist. About 300 people showed up May 25 in front of the Womens Civic Club of Garden Grove where Gilchrist was to speak. Things got out of hand, with protesters blaming cops for being too aggressive and police blaming protesters for hurling stuff at them. All of this distracts from the central issueA FLASHLIGHT HAS GONE MISSING, PEOPLE! Dang says shes being targeted because she made remarks critical of the cops handling of the protest. The cops say they are well within their rights to search for the flashlight. Defending the search, Lt. Mike Handfield says, We have a video of her taking the flashlight. We are going to try and do everything we can to recover the flashlight. All of this begs the question: What kind of response do you think youd get from the cops if you called up and requested they go all Daryl Gates because you believed your flashlight was being held in a neighbors house? Im guessing it probably wouldnt be the same response, even if it was a really nice flashlight, like the best flashlight ever, with a Blaupunkt and olive bar. As it turned out, Garden Grove police never found their flashlight, which, tragically, was just two days away from retirement. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
