Since my new Dell is sitting on the living room floor, I need to clean off the surface of my computer desk in order for my old computer to be moved off. It had so much crap on it, it was getting hard to see the monitor. Anyway, I had torn the following article out of the local newspaper months ago. It's a column called, Lights and Sirens, where people write in inquiring about police activity in their neighborhood. The editors print the most interesting inquiries and provide the answers. This one cracked me up:
Q: Road Closure
I'm curious why we were turned back Wednesday evening at Golden Cove Shopping Center. We were on Palos Verdes Drive West. The police had the road closed off at Hawthorne Boulevard. We could not get down to San Pedro from there. Why was the road closed?
A: A driver trying to catch a glimpse of a model in a miniskirt caused a crash that resulted in the shutdown of the road for about 2 1/2 hours.
Deputies said the model was having her photograph taken at the side of the road at 5:15 p.m. A motorist came along Palos Verdes Drive South near the former Marineland location and slowed to look.
That caused the driver behind him to slam into his car and shove it into a fire hydrant. Water shot into the air and flooded the road.
Crews shut off the water, but the pressure caused a nearby hydrant to erupt.
Deputies closed the roadway until repairs could be made. The street reopened at 7:30 p.m.
No one was hurt in the crash.
The photo shoot is believed to have been illegal and points up to why the city requires permits for such activity, said Gina Park, Rancho Palos Verdes' film permit coordinator.
"Typically, for things like that the city would require screens (to block) the public's view," she said.
It almost sounds like something you would see on TV. They should have been looking at the other cars rear ends, not hers.