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Something Stinks and Not Just the Seals

March 24, 2008 @ 09:03 am by Charles Hartley

While litigation back and forth over seal waste at the Children's Pool has been going on for several years, it was interesting to note this week some new waste of the city's own making at that local landmark.

While the city has spent years and thousands of dollars litigating the proper use of the Children's Pool in La Jolla, it's been forced to red tag its own lifeguard tower at the Children's Pool after a protracted lack of maintenance rendered the building unsafe.

The Union-Tribune's article on the closure details some of the extra personnel costs the city will incur as a result in providing lifeguard services without the use of the existing structure.

With an election coming up in June to elect a mayor and a city attorney for San Diego, one might think that this week's news would bring the mismanagement of the city's property assets back into focus.

Is this how the city that calls itself 'America's Finest' should be known? As a city that can't even maintain its own public safety infrastructure?

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Life is Not a Video Game

February 29, 2008 @ 11:02 am by Candace Suerstedt

Okay, so you’ve got a drunk (or high) or angry or spurned 17-29 year old male. For whatever reason, he steals a car because of impaired judgment. (Maybe he’s a habitual criminal or maybe he’s a messed up kid.) He heads out into the traffic, driving erratically.

Obviously the situation needs to be diffused, but what do the cops do? You got it .. they chase him, causing him to go even faster and more erratically then before.

Within seconds, testosterone poisoning and adrenalin course through his veins and then, for sure he’s out of his mind, whether he has ingested other drugs or not. Then the cop’s T and A kick in and, yet again, a lethal weapon has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public.

Last week, the news carried the story of a police chase in Los Angeles where the “perp” had allegedly stolen a late 70’s wood-paneled station wagon most kids wouldn’t want, even if their grandmother gave it to them. It had at most, a Kelley Blue Book value of $350. 

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