PERITOPIA!

25-inch tsunami to hit Mendocino Coast

>>Widespread inundation is not expected.<<

Well, THAT’s a relief.  Because I think my ice maker might have generated a “tsunami” a few months ago — and I hate to think I could have flooded the town.  Just for fun, I might investigate this natural phenomenon — with binoculars, of course.  Or maybe I can bring a body board and use it as a kind of surfing “bunny slope.”  Regardless, I’m sure the impact of this “tsunami” will not be lost on the peeps.  Did someone spill a beer?

>>REPORT – Police took a report when a woman in the 1200 block of Standley Street reported she had received disturbing e-mails from a foreign country and requested to speak with an officer just after 4 p.m. Friday.<<   That’s called spam, ma’am.

>>REPORT — Two men were suspected of smoking marijuana at 9:26 a.m. Wednesday behind a building in the 100 block of North Orchard Avenue. Police talked to the men, and the suspected marijuana turned out to be a hand-rolled cigarette. Police advised the men to move on.<<  Oh, please.  And who reports this type of activity?  Whoever it is, they should spend some time up here.  They’ll be busy reporting 24/7.

>>REPORT — A tree service company hired to fell a tree in the 200 block of San Jacinta Drive was five hours late to the job about 1:35 p.m. Wednesday. Tree company employees are alleged to have then harassed the person who had requested their services. The tree trimmers left the property when they were asked. It was requested that police document the incident.<<  You have got to be kidding — only five hours — must be High Expectations Week in Ukiah!!!   The guy who just washed/resealed my deck arrived, on average, SIX  hours late and worked a total of maybe 2 hours a day.  Project lasted longer than the gestational cycles of most small mammals.  And the best part was his backing out of doing anything underneath the hot tub because propping it up required “too much energy.”  But, he (1) showed up and (2) did work.  So, gold star!!!

Plane briefly hijacked in Mexico; Passengers freed

So, I guess these guys went to the same crime school as the perps around here.  And, why won’t they tell us why these Bolivians wanted to speak to the Mexican President — apparently, very very badly — anyway?  Is this not something that could have been resolved over a beer?  I’m guessing that’s what all the passengers had when they got off the plane and realized what happened.

UPDATE: Bolivian man acted alone in Mexico hijacking, official says Apparently, he is an alcoholic and a drug addict and “explained” that >>he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date — September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed — held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety.  ”He said that because of that divine reference he wanted to alert Mexico City of an earthquake,”<<

NOW, it makes sense.

Medical marijuana activists object to county code change

>>Pebbles Trippet of the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board and the Medical Marijuana Patient’s Union said Tuesday that because the changes affected medical marijuana patients, the item shouldn’t have been on the board’s consent calendar.<<

But, all kidding aside, Pebbles?   Really?

When THIS is in the police blotter, I have to ask whether the peeps are losing their mojo…

>>ANIMAL — In the 400 block of Luce Avenue it was reported that a dog was chasing a mail carrier at 12:02 p.m. Tuesday.<<

I guess, we are becoming mainstream.  At least, that explains the Wall Street Journal article.