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Q: What Stinks? A: Bob Dylan's Port-a-Potty

When Mailbu residents Cindy and Dave Emminger looked for an answer to a recent problem on their property, they found it was blowing in the wind. The problem was their neighbor, music legend Bob Dylan, had "permanently parked a nasty smelling portable potty next to their mutual property line," according to NBC Los Angeles. The Emmingers wrote a letter to the editor of the Malbu Surfside News, complaining "that the City of Malibu has been unable to help them solve the problem," of the "toxic, hazardous, carcinogenic chemical toilet" that was set down "next to their home." The angry neighbors believe the port-a-potty is going to be far less movable than a rolling stone--in fact, they believe the "toilet is apparently intended [...] to be a permanent fixture on his property." Dylan, a longtime Malibu resident, has made no public comment about his portable toilet.

Just in case you haven't heard, a few corporations have recently decided that a really awesome way to get lots of free publicity would be to rent a beach house in Malibu, throw a ton of parties for celebs (some with quotation marks, some without) and invite the paparazzi along to ensure that photos of said celebs interacting with said corporation's product get splashed all over the web and certain print publications. It seems...

By week's end, LA is regularly littered with a handful of free rags. Combined, these publications put the Tribune Company's Spring Street operation LA Times to shame as far as reporting on the dozens of municipalities that make up this metropolis of more than 12 million people. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, let us know, or better yet drop it in the comments section below....

The Malibu Surfside News reports that "a man that Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel have dubbed the “Knieval Bandit” because he wears a motorcycle helmet to disguise his face, robbed the Point Dume branch of Bank of America on Wednesday, Nov. 17."

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