BUMMER-FREE ZONE

For some reason this article seems oddly out of place to me in the LA Times. It's a story that would seem more at home in a rag from the hardscrabble hills of Arkansas or West Virginia than Los Angeles. Then again, perhaps back there this sort of thing wouldn't even be considered a story. I like to imagine the Clampetts nodding knowingly as they read this in their Beverly Hills mansion.

"Poor fella! Dems is good eatin'!"