My Variety colleague Michael Leamonth, in town for the TV press tour, witnessed a rather disturbing sight on Olympic this Tuesday.
Driving back to the office from the Beverly Hilton, he saw what looked like a lifeless body just sitting on the sidewalk on Olympic. The man was shirtless, and only wore a pair of shorts. (Dead body on the sidewalk? Must have made our New York boy feel at home. Sorry, gratuitous Gotham-bashing.)
A woman stood a few feet away from the body, on the cell phone -- clearly calling someone to get medics out there. In his rearview mirror, Michael spies an ambulance pull out of a driveway... and proceed to speed down Olympic the wrong direction!
Michael says the ambulance made it all the way past 405, before the driver realized his mistake and turned around. Ouch. If that sidewalk guy wasn't dead before, this gaffe sure didn't help things.
Michael mentioned this story to me because I brought up the just-released 911 tape from the woman chased earlier this week by a crazed, drunk Lindsay Lohan. The frightened caller -- the mother of Lindsay's assistant -- had no idea she was being chased by Lindsay, and was freaked out. But not helping matters: The 911 operator, who keeps shouting at her to tell her location, and gets pissy when the caller -- who's clearly scared -- won't calmly answer his questions. Are all 911 operators this pissy?
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