May 8, 2008
Extra, Extra: Mothers, Don't Let Your Babies Get Eaten By Coyotes

Photo by kpe II via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr
- Commuters who take Sunset Blvd. through West LA, beware of extra traffic tonight: a fatal motorcycle crash in the 11500 block will shut down the street between the 405 onramp and Barrington.
- LA Now also reminds us of a happy fact: it's jacaranda season!
- A 90-year-old woman was found dead of physical trauma inside her house in Altadena, where a fire had burned out two of the rooms. The woman's death was unrelated to the fire, so authorities are scratching their heads to determine why the woman died.
- 375 miles of wilderness in the Tehachapi Mountains will be preserved in new conservation efforts spearheaded by the governor and organizations such as the Sierra Club.
- Hit and run: literally. A woman crashed her SUV into a truck on the southbound 110 earlier today -- and just got out and ran away!
- Another toddler seized by a coyote in Lake Arrowhead this week. There's got to be a movie plot in here somewhere. (The coyote released the child when her mother began to run after it.)
- Will the city ever reach a happy compromise on the 101-405 improvement project? Modifications to one of the country's busiest interchanges may severely affect a nearby wildlife refuge.
- You know you want to read it: Jonathan Gold's take on the, um, controversial new Father's Office location.



I'm seriously not bullshitting, when I heard about the coyote story on the local news, I literally thought, "Human traffickers are stealing babies?"
isn't Gold calling the original Father's Office "controversial" or am I missing something? What's so controversial about the new one?
ANDY
Go check out the most commented post on LAist this week.
Oh, the F.O. burger controversy again. thought it interesting how Gold squeezed the 'C' word into his review:
There's nothing controversial about the burger. It's his place and he can make the rules. But it will NEVER be anywhere on my best burger list. A burger is like pizza is like freedom. Anyway you want it, it's still gonna be f'in good. And nobody tells me how I should eat my freedom.
how DO you eat your freedom!?!?!?! and what's your best burger list? have you tried the pug burger at hungry cat?
I am all atwitter.
^ try the pub burger with an egg. =).
and you can rent out a room at the new fathers office location, i believe my friend is doing it for her boyfriends party, which is nice.
people are just mad b/c sang yooon is treating them like the children they are...
parent-"no don't touch the oven sweetie, it gets hott"
child-"JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE OLDER AND HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE IN THIS DOESN"T MEAN ANYTHING!!! I'LL DO WHATEVER I WANT!! IT'S A FREE COUNTRY!!!"
and then the child burns his hand, hates all authority figures for making them look stupid and bitches online that they can't put ketchup on every damn thing they put on their plate and that the bar isn't a restaurant.
The coyote situation is beginning to sound like the basis of a script for a sequel to A Cry in the Dark. "Dingo got my baby!!"