Category Archives: Off Topic

Sean Connors Must Really Hate Cell Phones By Now

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(Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Popped by a citizen via cell phone.

A Monterey man whose driver’s license was suspended from a past driving under the influence conviction was arrested early Wednesday in South County after someone called 911 to report a possible drunken driver, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Sean Joseph Connors, 24, allegedly was driving erratically on Highway 1 near Airport Boulevard around 2:40 a.m., the CHP reported. He was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of DUI and driving with a suspended license.

Sounds like it’s the same guy that left his phone behind after breaking into a car.

Sean Connors Must Really Hate Cell Phones By Now

Could Budget Conditions Get Any Worse In Salinas?

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When you have our runaway ex-mayor on your team, it’s sure to get foggy.

Dan Cort Bailn Like Palin

The committee will recommend cuts and revenue enhancements to the City Council, Donohue said during his state of the budget address last week. The city’s budget now has an estimated deficit of $9.5 million.

So far, Donohue said, the list of committee members includes the following people:

Lino Belli, architect; Lauren Cercone, library commission; Dan Cort, former Pacific Grove mayor; Joyce Cordi, management consultant; Linda English, League of Women Voters; Al Espindola, recreation commission; Anne Frasetto; Jack Harvey, retired HSBC employee; Matt Huerta, Salinas Planning Commission; Peter Kasava, Planning and Permit Committee; Cesar Lara, Monterey Bay Labor Council; John McPherson, Creative Business; Rex McIntosh, Eagle-Bison Neighborhood Association; Brigid McGrath Massie, Police Community Advisory Committee and businesswoman; Ben Ranzenberger, Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital; Martha Real, local business owner; George Rawson, former Indio California police chief; Glorietta Rowland, executive officer for the Coalition of Homeless Service Providers; Sam Teel, Monterey Taxpayers Association; and Les White, former San Jose City Manager.

Could Budget Conditions Get Any Worse In Salinas?

Solar Electricity Makes For Sustainable Burglars

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Any savings gained by using solar electricity is offset by paying for security patrols & surveillance cameras.

“The cost of metal has declined significantly,” said Brandy Swain, a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department Crime Prevention Specialist. “It looks like solar panels are becoming the new hot item to steal.”

More than $400,000 worth of solar panels have been stolen from vineyards in Napa County, alone.

Solar Electricity Makes For Sustainable Burglars

Governator Sends Coded Message

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Get To Da Choppa

And it’s not “get to the choppa”

Schwarzenegger on Friday responded for the first time about a profanity-laced phrase spelled out on the left-hand margin in his veto message to a state lawmaker who had heckled the governor at a San Francisco event.

The governor smiled as he told reporters at the White House, “That was a total coincidence. It was one of those wild coincidences.”

Arnolds F You Message

Governator Sends Coded Message

Colorado Boy Aboard Runaway Balloon Found To Be A Hoax

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So – Just what is happening on the Pebble Beach “stolen art” story? It’s dropped from all forms of media faster than a, a well empty balloon. What are Benjamin Amadio and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh planning next?

Balloon Boy Crash

The parents of a six-year-old boy they claim had stowed aboard a runaway balloon face felony charges for what sheriff’s investigators say was merely a publicity stunt.

“It has been a hoax,” said Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. “It was a publicity stunt done with hopes of better maneuvering themselves for a reality TV show.”

(San Jose Mercury)
Colorado Boy Aboard Runaway Balloon Found To Be A Hoax

California Produce Still Tainted

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Today’s non-shopping list item: Green Onions (some people call them scallions, Joe)

A Steinbeck spokesman says the company bought the onions from Circle Produce, a Calexico-based company supplied by an onion farm in Mexicali, Mexico.

Castroville-based shipper Ocean Mist Farms recalled 1,746 cases of its green onions as well, after realizing they came from the same lot. No illnesses have been reported.,

What did our career congressman Sam The Sham Farr do with the millions of tax dollars he got to stop getting poo in spinach or iceberg lettuce?

Farr Piggy

California Produce Still Tainted

Monterey Man Outdoes Richmond Woodson With Threats To City Hall

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Man unhappy with a neighbor’s cactus? Not getting any response from the police like Richmond Woodson does, he takes it a step further.

A Monterey man who was unhappy with a neighbor’s landscaping is facing a felony charge for allegedly threatening violence against Monterey City Manager Fred Meurer and another city employee.

David White, 57, called the city Planning Department Aug. 28 complaining about a cactus a neighbor had planted, said Monterey police Lt. Leslie Sonné.

(This representation of cactus is not the one in the story)
Cactus Penis
Monterey Man Outdoes Richmond Woodson With Threats To City Hall

Fisherman’s Wharf Cracks Down On Signs

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Better yet is my idea to legalize them and license them – after all they are advertising on public property.

Wharf signs

Officials and restaurant owners hope clearing the thoroughfare will lessen the amount of “chowder barking” — the practice of loudly offering free cups of clam chowder to visitors — on the wharf. The intrusive practices of chowder samplers are a major point of contention among competing wharf restaurant owners and the subject of visitor complaints.
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A local businessman gave Sabu Shake, who died in 1998, the life-size wooden statue of himself wearing a white cowboy hat and white suit.

“It’s been there a long time,” said Bob Massaro, the administrator for the Fisherman’s Wharf Association. “Folks stand beside it and get their picture taken. He was sort of a character, wore a cowboy hat all the time. Just a nice congenial person.”

Tom Gawel, general manager of Rappa’s Seafood Restaurant on the wharf, said he was asked to removed flower pots from the front of his restaurant. He plans to comply.

Fisherman’s Wharf Cracks Down On Signs