Recently in Stupid Category
Don't know what's best about this story - that the suspect's fake gun fell apart during the heist, how the carwash worker fought back or the cliches the newscasters used in filming this report. (Make sure to watch the video).
There's the New Mexico motorist, convicted four times for DUI, who told a cop he was driving erratically because his passenger spilled his beer.
Two men arrested for marijuana possession have a similar tale to Harold & Kumar, but they're apparently a lot dumber.
A New York Verizon technician was charged for tapping into customers' lines to make $220,000 in phone-sex calls.
A big thanks from me to all these men for making my Thursday a touch more interesting.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
E-mail Denise at denise.nix@dailybreeze.com.
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