Emma G. Gallegos

If there's one department that's worried about the Occupy L.A. encampment, it's the city's Recreation and Parks Department. The department released its third estimate of how occupiers are wreaking havoc on the lawn, shrubbery and sprinkler-heads around City Hall.

Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Eric Vasquez has a $108,000 salary, but last year he took home a sweet extra $50,000 in vacation pay. That number must have seemed awfully suspicious to the city, because they have put Vasquez on administrative leave while they investigate his case, according to the Daily News.

In tonight's Extra Extra, Vin Scully comes in third place, high-speed rail needs at least four Groupon IPOs and a couple married today is in it for the long run. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

We know that burning calories after last week's debauchery is hard work, and it's a bummer that Mother Nature doesn't come equipped with an LED display to measure your caloric output. Our Overheard in L.A. round-up this week includes snippets of overheard conversation from gym bunnies, Skittles nazis and trickle-down economists.

A 41-year-old man died after he fell into a pool while mowing the lawn yesterday afternoon. Jose Velasquez Castillo was doing yardwork at a home on a cul-de-sac in Anaheim, when he fell into the pool.

James Van Doren, the man who accidentally started a skater phenomenon when he created Vans shoes, died at his home in Fullerton after a long fight with cancer. The soles were meant for mariners but West Coast skaters figured out that the soles had the right grip for perfecting an ollie.

If you're ever tempted to drive drunk, picture this sobering scenario: a driver in Sylmar was arrested after smashing into an occupied parked truck, which struck a utility pole, starting a fire, causing a power outage. The two trucks were totaled and the other man sleeping in the pick-up truck was injured.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, we remind you to set your clocks to fall back, wildfire season is over and the little dog that got dragged by a truck (on purpose) is going to be okay. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports.

Because you got an extra hour of sleep last night, you need to get out on this beautiful rainy day on Southern California so you can enjoy all these indoors events.

Some of us marched, some of us closed our accounts with too-big-to-fail corporate banks, some of us complained we didn't have any money to open a new account and others of us gloated about how we had been using credit unions before they were cool.

A 6-year-old boy escaped from the clutches of a man who kidnapped him out of his backyard yesterday by biting his hand, according to sheriff's deputies. The man put his hand over the boy's mouth to keep him from screaming, but the boy bit him and ran back home.

If you're a small business owner medical marijuana patient looking to protect those pot plants you have growing in your backyard, you might be tempted to take out an insurance policy to cover your assets medicine in case of the inevitable drug raid that comes from growing an unthoroughly legalized plant.