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Crime is no laughing matter

I love humor...love it, love it. But I just can’t get past your new

approach to reporting crime in the Police Files. It’s sad that you choose

to be “cute” with someone’s misfortune. It is disrespectful to the victim

and frankly I was really surprised that this style of reporting has been

repeated.

Love the Pilot, love to laugh, but your idea of clever writing needs

to go somewhere else.

MELODY DAIGLE

Costa Mesa

Photo choice was irresponsible

Concerning your Page 2 picture (“Discovering ocean’s treasures,” Sept.

5), I found it very upsetting that you would publish this picture with

the caption: “Looking for crabs and sea life in the tide pools.”

This is against the law!

This is not responsible journalism.

[When contacted] a Pilot editor commented that you just report

situations and that you are not in the business of enforcing the law.

I realize that fact; however, you are in the business of imparting

information. The caption and the picture of children at the beach give

every indication that what was taking place was acceptable. It is not!

As a grandmother and former kindergarten teacher, I’ve taken many

children to the tide pools for hours of learning and enjoyment. If we

allow children (and adults) to continue collecting sea life in a bucket,

before long there won’t be anything left to observe.

Anyone not familiar with the rules designed to protect the sea animals

of the pools certainly didn’t get the message from this picture.

EVELYN SMILES

Newport Beach