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Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and the head of the county's beaches department will meet the media at 6 p.m. on the steps of the Hall of Administration to further explain the Board of Supervisors' vote on beach Frisbees. Yes, I'm serious. I wonder if any station will dare carry it live (and very much hope none do.)
Meanwhile, the Reuters bureau in Los Angeles has just moved what it is billing as the most complete and accurate story on how the Frisbee facts got so garbled.
Reports that supervisors had ratcheted up fines for throwing footballs and Frisbees on the county's beaches to $1,000 made international headlines, became a point of ridicule on local talk radio and infuriated locals.[Spokesman Joel] Bellman said Yaroslavsky's office alone had fielded dozens of phone calls and e-mails from irate constituents since the first news reports this week.
In fact the original law, which dates to 1970, makes it an infraction to "cast, toss, throw, kick or roll" anything other than a beach ball on a Los Angeles County beach -- a rule that may have escaped the notice of many Southern Californians.
The revised ordinance, which was given final approval by supervisors on Tuesday, allows beach balls and volleyballs -- and loosens restrictions on footballs, Frisbees and other such sporting equipment and toys.
The ban now applies only during summer and lets beachgoers toss their footballs and Frisbees in designated areas, over the water or with permission from a lifeguard.
And any fines, as we mentioned earlier, would be $100 at most for a first offense — if a violation ever got that far.