Showdown over mobile billboards

The city's war against mobile billboards took a bizarre turn Monday when a Stetson-wearing opponent of a new law confronted local officials in a Wild West-style standoff. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

Bruce Boyer, 49, who has become the face of the mobile billboard industry in Los Angeles, disrupted a late morning news conference at which Councilman Dennis Zine and other officials had planned to tout a weekend sweep of the controversial trailer signs.

Instead, Boyer imposed himself at the side of the podium and lambasted the officials, whose voices were nearly drowned out as they tried to address reporters and TV cameras.