At 9 pm on Carmel Beach. Well, it was a full moon in more ways than one.

Carmel Police Sgt. Mel Mukai said a 29-year-old Carmel man and two 32-year-olds from Pacific Grove shucked their clothes and entered the water near Scenic and 10th. The men were naked, and the woman was topless.

Shortly after 9 p.m. Aug. 24, “as they were leaving the water, there was a large family gathering, and one of the parents was obviously appalled and decided to call us,” Mukai said.

Appalled Parents Call Cops On Skinny Dippers

Save Mart in Salinas.

After picking up a bottle of alcohol at the Save Mart, Diaz went to a self-check cash register. When she scanned the alcohol and her ID, an indicator light blinked on and off, just as required by law.

Save Mart Self Checkout Nets Alcohol For Teen

Assault with a golf marker. Whew.

Deputies said Stephan Kidder, 36, of Chateau Sinnet Winery, was found trespassing and interfering with a business about 5:30 p.m. on the 100 block of East Carmel Valley Road. When asked to leave, deputies said, Kidder threatened employees with the marker.

Deputies said that when they arrived, he ran into the Carmel River. Deputies were able to talk Kidder out of the river, and he was booked into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of exhibiting a deadly weapon, public intoxication and trespassing. Jail officials said Kidder also had a warrant for driving with a suspended license, without vehicle insurance and registration.

Winemaker Jail Birdies

Wanted to raise $$ for a school in Afghanistan. What that has to do with swimming I don’t know. Next up is Bruckner Chase making a second try after also failing last year.

Marathon swimmer Patti Bauernfeind, stung by hundreds of jellyfish, gave up her quest to complete a 23-mile swim of Monterey Bay after about 4½ hours Saturday, just short of the midway point of the quest.

Bauernfeind, 43, left Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz at midnight, hoping to conquer the currents, the cold water and the jellyfish to become the second swimmer ever to swim the bay. Cindy Cleveland did it in 1983, and five other swimmers have failed to equal the feat since then.

Bauernfeind, a Pleasanton resident, swam without a wet suit in accordance with English Channel open-water swimming rules.

Score Is Jellyfish 2, Humans 1 In Bay Swimming Attempts

Hmmm, them scientists might be on to something.

The most recent sea otter census, released by the organization earlier this month, showed a continued downward trend in the number of both adults and pups in California.

August encounters with adult great whites are consistent with findings from a research team led by biologists from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. By placing electronic tracking tags on 179 sharks since 2000, they’ve documented that adult great whites congregate near sea lion and elephant seal breeding colonies in Central and Northern California between August and February.

Sea Otter Population Shrinks While Shark Population Grows

Garbage gestapo. Recycle or face charges.

From cleveland.com

It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders’ trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t.

The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.

The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in weeks, a trash supervisor will sort through the trash for recyclables.

Has Recycling Come To This?

So do your best to stay out of them.

“Jails and prisons by their very nature are violent institutions and I’ve always said we need a new jail and more deputies,” the sheriff said. “We’re no different than any jail around the state. We all share the problem of overcrowding.”

However, he said, “Nothing could have stopped what Jesse Crow did. He was very determined and it was very well thought out.”

Sheriff’s Cmdr. Mike Richards confirmed Monday that Crow used parts of his bed sheet to hang himself. He used the same sheets to tie his cell door closed to delay deputies who found him hanging. He waited until the early morning hours, when other inmates were sleeping, and hanged himself after a bed check.

Sheriff: “Jails Are A Dangerous Place To Be”

Loser asks for compassion for the inmates? No compassion for the woman he killed or witnesses that feared for their lives? One witness is from P.G. Now that murder charges are dropped, can the D.A. go after the accomplices turned “witnesses”?

From the house, Crow drove his wife to a remote area north of Marina, off Highway 1 and the Del Monte Boulevard exit, where he strangled her, shot her in the head with a 9 mm handgun and smashed her skull with a hammer.

He loaded her body into the bed of his truck, and called his girlfriend Summer Donovan in Pacific Grove, asking her to meet him at the exit. She did, then followed him to his parents’ home on Langley Canyon Road in Prunedale. On the way, Crow called his girlfriend to ask if any blood was leaking from the truck bed because he thought he had killed someone.

Back in Fremont, Crow dismembered his wife’s body, stuffed her in the trash can and filled it with cement. Then, he and his girlfriend prepared to flee. They had their passports and were heading south, but Donovan was worried that Crow’s associates would report them or seek revenge.

One of the nice things about living in P.G. is that there are fewer annoying solicitors unlike Monterey. I see some hippy group once a year and the Witnesses occasionally, but it’s election time again and the canvassers are gearing up.

So the town of Rye is considering adopting a “do not knock” registry that would alert solicitors to the homes where they are not welcome.

Currently anyone going door to door, whether a vendor or on behalf of a non-profit group, needs a permit from the city clerk.

Under the new law, solicitors would have to obtain a copy of the registry and stay away from any address listed.

New York Town Proposes “No Knock” List

Riders, watch your bikes. Always lose a few to thieves every year.

Officer Robert Lehman said the influx of traffic, with thousands of spectators and motorcycles coming through Monterey County, makes it necessary to have additional officers out in search of careless drivers and riders.

All drivers traveling this weekend should be extra cautious because of the thousands of motorcycles, Lehman said.

“Everybody needs to pay a little more attention, obviously motorcycles are hard to see most of the time and a lot of people can be surprised by them showing up so quick,” he said.

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