With $860 million spending sprees, high-tech surveillance towers that don't work and Operation Streamline show trials, it's still the same old catch-and-release game
We're one week into L.A.'s chapter of the swine flu pandemic/panic and already people are asking, "Where's the pork?" Raised on bio-disaster movies and braced for the worst upon hearing of Mexico's initial death toll, Angelenos were expecting (not, I should stress, hoping) to see bodies in the street and the breakdown of civilization. Instead, there has not been a single confirmed case of the flu in the county, despite some deaths and illnesses that drew the attention of authorities. The early h
Maybe U.S. Customs agents don't frequent Chung King or Bu San or
Chang's Garden for the purpose of ordering sea cucumber quite as much as some restaurant critics do. If they did, perhaps they may have been more understanding on Sunday, when agents seized 300 pounds of the cucumbers, a delicacy on many Asian menus, at the U.S.-Mexican border. According to the L.A.Times, the marine animals were discovered in the luggage of two Chinese citizens tryng to cross the border. (Unless food is declared,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced that they just recovered a Volkswagen van that had been reported stolen in 1974.
The 1965 Bus was found in at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports, in a shipping container bound for the Netherlands, Customs authorities said. They ran the van's vehicle identification number and discovered it had been reported stolen from Spokane, Washington in the year of Patty Hearst, Nixon's resignation and an OPEC-led gas crunch.Volkswagen
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U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionLet me see that bong ba-bong bong bong.The man cannot be fooled: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced Thursday they seized a bong-load of paraphernalia that was shipped to the U.S. from China disguised as holiday ornaments.
The goods were described as "glass figures and Christmas ornaments," but, as a statement from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reads, "The highly decorated glas
