Headline Sports

Sometimes when you read the headlines of newspaper stories, you get excited and can't wait to read them.

But in today's Daily Pilot, there are two articles which...well...made me wonder...wonder if our collective IQ's have dropped.

First - "Goats could prevent fires."

Really? You mean every year, when the Santa Ana Winds whip up and fires go through the Southland, goats could have saved the day?

"Newport Beach firefighters have commissioned a study to examine how effective goats could be at preventing wildfires by gobbling up brush in Buck Gully and Morning Canyon in Corona del Mar."

I guess it makes sense.

I guess our Newport Beach Firefighters (who are one of the highest paid in Orange County with GREAT, GREAT pensions) should be commended for being proactive as opposed to reactive.

Second -"Defendant says city didn’t notify him of filed lawsuit."

Gee...really?

I haven't been sued that much, but one would think that you don't get notice of a lawsuit before getting served, otherwise, you'd get out of Dodge right?

The interesting thing of that article was what defendant Barry Saywitz says,

“I was shocked to find out I’m being sued by Newport Beach without any notice or warning letter,” Saywitz said."

My questions are:

- Since he "has interest in a partnership that owns properties that have several leases with Morningside Recovery," does that mean that he didn't think the City of Newport Beach was serious in their enforcements of the Moratorium?

- Or...because the Sober Living/Rehab Homes have been running soo rampant on the Balboa Peninsula, did he think that no one would notice his new operations opening up and that business would be as usual for the City Attorney's office (he must not have been paying attention that our City Attorney's office was "relieved" of their Sober Living/Rehab Home duties and that an outside Attorney was brought in - which in itself is an argument for the City to contract out services, who get paid and rewarded based upon good performance versus having City Employees, who get paid and rewarded NO MATTER WHAT)

- Or...because he was expecting a warning letter or notice, was he just disappointed that his "friends" in the City didn't tip him off first?

Where do we get Goats from anyways?