I generally have pretty low expectations of California, but in this case they have managed to undercut even those.
From your link.
So you’re blaming the state for the acts of couple of small cities? Frankly, billing for the cost of prosecution sounds like something a Republican would do.
I want an Orange Killdozer!
California? That’s, like, Palm Springs which might as well be Phoenix. 
I’m not trying to assign blame to the state government of California, if that’s what you mean. It’s a useful catch-all label for all the silliness that goes on west of Arizona and Nevada but east of the Pacific Ocean. I realize that in this case we’re discussing the actions of some municipalities in California.
Don’t we all?
Bullshit. It’s just more of your “Dems do something wrong” crap all over again. By the way, Matthew Silver is a registered Republican.
What’s a killdozer?
It was a short story, originally published in Playboy, I think, about a bulldozer possessed by some sort of evil alien spirit, attacking a unit of engineers on a Pacific Island during WWII. It was later made into a fairly crappy TV movie.
But I guess what he’s referring to is this incident:
I want a killdozer! I want many killdozers. If only the economics of killdozer would just trickle down to me…sad.
Actually, it was originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944 and frequently reprinted. According to the isfdb it was never printed in Playboy. It’s by the excellent SF author Theodore Sturgeon (although you’d never guess that from the admittedly crappy TV movie). It was adapted as a comic book story that was much more faithful for Marvel’s Worlds Unknown back in 1974.
It’s typical of me that I know about the Sturgeon story and its adaptations, but had no idea about this guy Heemeyer.
Thanks, I stand corrected.
It wouldn’t be surprising if it whad been reprinted in Playboy – Hef was, as I’ve observed, a science fiction geek, and he frequently printed and reprinted science fiction, especially in the early days (George Langelaan’s The Fly originally appeared in Plyboy, and they reprinted Ray Bradbury’s The sound of Thunder after its initial pulp publication). I had to check to see if they had reprinted it in Playboy.
It was NOT a crappy movie! It was fun and suspenseful and had a good cast. Plus, bulldozer!
Whether or not it was faithful to the story, I can’t say. But that’s not important now.
Killdozers don’t scare me.
Killdozers driven by genocidal robots…that might get my attention.
Self-driving killdozers, well, that the end of human civilization as we know it.
Does the band scare you?
This Marvin Heemeyer dude did his business in Colorado.
You and me, both, Cal.
OP Link didn’t seem to work. However, a search on the Desert Sun’s website turned up a nice article. It’s quite critical of Silver & Wright and seems to suggest the cities of Coachella and Indio may have subcontracted the firm to go after municipal infractions but had no idea the lawyers would become so exploitive so now the ability to charge capitulators legal fees for their own prosecutions is now being reviewed.
You’ve pointed us to an article showing how municipalities on the Left Coast are unwilling to just stand aside when they get news of people exploiting loopholes in their subcontract terms.
Thank you, Ditka! It’s nice to see that your posts aren’t exclusively just crapping on Democrat deeds. Good to see you’re calling attention to injustice, even when it’s a Republican (led) firm doing it.
–G!
I didn’t mention a political party in the OP.
I know. Like I said here, California is apparently contagious. It has infected nearby states.