Again, like I have said, never raid a commercial lobster fisherman’s traps…

The Associated Press
Posted: 11/17/2008 07:19:49 PM PST

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—State fish and game wardens have arrested four scuba divers on suspicion of stealing lobsters from commercial traps off the coast of Laguna Beach.

Department of Fish and Game Warden Patrick Foy says a patrol boat led two all-night surveillance operations over the weekend.

Foy says one of the four men took 11 3/4 pounds of lobster from commercial traps, worth more than $120 on the market. He says the man could be charged with a felony.

During the nighttime surveillance operation, the boat’s crew also rescued a man from drowning and arrested his friend on suspicion of having illegally harvested scallops.

The original article is here.

Southern California, specifically the Los Angeles/Long Beach area has been surrounded by three fires in Palos Verdes, Corona and Yorba Linda.

I live in the Long Beach Ghetto and the smoke here is unbearable; stopping to get compressed air for my SCUBA tanks this afternoon, the sky was almost evening dark with an eerie red tinge to it.

Coming back to my car 20 minutes later, the Duster was covered in ash.

That is smoke in the sky, not clouds!

I locked myself in my apartment, closed all the windows and ran the air conditioning to at least breathe filtered air.

To compound the misery, they canceled I love Lucy and all the other decent shows to cover the fires.

But, at least channel 11 had Ron Jeremy covering the Yorba Linda fire.