racing to the red light

Here in Los Angeles we have become accustomed to driving over some of the worst roads in the developed world.

Until recently the street leading to our editorial offices resembled a bombed out battlefield more that a “paved road”. A hazard for motorcyclist and auto drivers alike, someone must have sued the City because suddenly one day it was repaved.

We recently spotted this pothole that road workers have evidently given up hope of fixing – they’ve instead simply painted over it:

We’re back everybody.  Try to contain your excitement.  We’ve been on a 10-month hiatus mostly consisting of pork rinds and tequila, lounging poolside in the sun.  Or something.

In breaking Regional Bear News:

Now that’s not a headline you see every day. L.A. Times

File this one under “Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction”, folks.

Several weeks ago, a group of high school-aged kids in the Southern California city of La Habra Heights broke into a fully-furnished mansion whose owner had put the home on the market and was out of the country.  Somehow, these kids knew that the owner was away and took advantage, hosting what was undoubtedly a smashing renegade party inside the premises (the L.A. Times story makes it sound like the kids were outside initially).

Later in the evening, someone broke in through a window and the kids quickly ransacked and looted the place. 

Look at all this rich-guy shit!  It looks like the one wall’s worth of Thurston Howell III’s sitting parlor:

One kid nabbed a stuffed snow leopard, evidently valued at a quarter of a million dollars. He said that he took it because all the “good stuff was gone” and when confronted with the value of his theft he replied, “How many zeros is that?”  [Perhaps he should have stolen a calculator as well.  -Ed.]

They are looking into whether or not it is legal to even posses a stuffed snow leopard.  Some people were pissed.

This is happening – Human Ingenuity at its finest.  At least in the salvaging-a-900-foot-cruise-ship kind of way.

So it seems that the LA Times is reporting that soon to be ex-mayor of San Diego Bob “Feely” Filner is out of office.

It is not for RttRL to say whether or not he is guilty (though we presume he is), we instead only point out that it has been one hell of a circus.  When you have had your own party come out against you and say that you should resign, and you went to “therapy” to stop being creepy and grabby with women … these are not good signs.

Sayonara, Feely