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Extra, Extra - Banana Bandits, Psychic Cats, and Religious Weed
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- On today's LAist poll, over 80% of you readers are willing to pony up for a subway to the sea. Is anybody at City Hall listening? Or does Zuma Dogg have to get all wacky on their asses?
- The LAT names two new managing editors. To whom do I write to protest the axing of West Magazine?
- About 200 employees were evacuated from UCLA today after a basement explosion; no injuries reported.
- 16-year-old Victor Manuel Lopez of Lynwood shot dead in a carjacking attempt.
- Psychic cats don't only live on the Third Street Promenade: this cat is predicting nursing home deaths. Calling Stephen King!
- Donate your lunch money to stop Lee Baca from giving any more celebrities special treatment: cause you just KNOW Lindsay is gonna be all "Leeeee can I go to Hyde tonight? Pretty please???"
- Does robbing banks make you hungry for fruity snacks? Apparently it does for the Banana Bandit: he is considered armed and dangerous. And delicious with peanut butter.
- Voracious. Jumbo. Squid. Invade. California!!!!
- In the category of Things We Should Try to Pull Off: the religious defense for marijuana.
- And speaking of...the city is asking the D.E.A. to stop raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. I'll have to tell Xzibit next time I see him go into the one on Sunset and Sierra Bonita!
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