Readers Say the Darndest Things

Yet another roundup of best reader comments, as selected by Patch editors:

It would make a super sweet skate park: Dolly Parton by the Sea Skate Park.
-- SCisTheBest, commenting on the fate of

I really hate these regulations that are taking the fun out of the Wild West lifestyle I want for me and my kids. We didn't come to California for the gold. We came for the arsenic-laced waterways and oil oozing on the beaches … like Jed Clampett.
-- Nia Hartman, on California health officials discovering

If this couple conspired to frame this school volunteer while they were in a restaurant, why didn't the restaurant employees anticipate this conspiracy and do more to prevent it?
-- Tennickly, using the story of an to poke fun at for a homicide

Yes, until the $500 ran out. I'd [rather] stick it in an S&P index fund.
-- Charles, on whether

We now have two options: 1) The city manager can remove the award off the wall and send it back. 2) A large group of us storm City Hall and remove the award ... Then take it to the middle of the intersection and burn it in a large bonfire.
-- TheJellyfish, on an

This is about property rights? How about the old adage: "Your freedom to swing your arm ends where the other man's nose begins." The 3-story Olen building is a big swing of the arm hitting the "Spanish Village by the Sea" in the nose. Once the first 3-story [building] gets in ... the others that follow will block the air, sun and sky from view in the downtown.
-- Tom Barnes, on San Clemente's