JO'Co likes to portray New Jersey in a certain "light". Now here's a California crime, right in his backyard no less. We have our standards in NJ, ie. no bookmaking in front of churches, nobody gets clipped in front of their family.... apparrently the same doesn't apply in LA. Good god, have some pride out there 8) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second time in three months, a 16-year-old California girl who lost a leg in an accident has had her artificial limbs stolen. Melissa Huff, an Arcadia High School student who uses a $16,000 prosthetic limb to play softball for the school team and another one, valued at $12,000, for everyday use, said both were taken from her bedroom on Tuesday. "I was picking up my little brother from school when my mom called me and asked where I left the two prosthetic legs," Huff, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, told Reuters in an interview. "I knew right then that it had happened again." Lisa Huff, her mother, said she came home around midday on Tuesday and found the room shared by Melissa and her older sister a mess. Only the prosthetic limbs were missing. Police say they were talking to the girl's friends, neighbors and relatives for information about the missing legs. In November, thieves broke into the Huff residence and took just her prosthetic limb. After that incident, Melissa's prosthetist and a local real estate company donated about $16,000 for a new limb. The stolen limb was discovered in the teenager's backyard about a month ago, apparently thrown there by the thieves. Melissa lost her real leg two years ago when a driver accidentally ran into her as she stood in front of her middle school. She said she intends to get back on the field this week and just practice throwing until she gets another prosthetic limb.
Hey! It looks like Georgie has been doing some research! This is good. Baseball season must be right around the corner...
Hmmmmmmmm... this is a tough one. Black slime and ooze coming out of the ground downtown...near where they used to have oil wells...only a few miles from the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire... Wait! Don't tell me! I'm still thinking... What could cause this phenomenon? Since its downtown, I'm sure they put their crack investigators from USC on the case. Hey, for slimey situations like this, who else are you gonna call?
As I suspected, it was oil. People forget that Los Angeles is one of the great oil producing regions, because they built the city and surrounding suburbs right on top of the oil. When I was a kid, I used to visit my relatives in Wilmington (LA Harbor area) and there was a "grasshopper" style oil pumper right in their driveway. Those things are still all over the place, but now they disguise them so that you don't notice them. If you look right off the beach, you'll see lots of lovely little islands right offshore. These are actually man-made oil pumping stations disguised to look like tropical islands, with palm trees and everything. I think Chevron does that... Today's papers report that the foul smelling, oily sludge, seeping out of the ground downtown, was indeed oil. A nearby oil pumper had been pumping hot salt water into an old well to get the oil to come to the top. So when a huge bulge appeared in the road a few blocks away that smelled like oil, looked like oil and felt like oil mixed with hot salt water, they (of course) denied everything and said that it was an unusual coincidence, until their arses were covered in oil... ....................Ghostbusters on the Case