Editor,
A letter (“True Story,” April 8) provides a second hand report (apparently the writer wasn’t there) concerning two seventh grade skateboarders who allege that a black Mercedes tried to hit them on Skyline Drive on March 28.
If that actually happened it was not reported to the police, according to a spokeswoman. Rather than taking it up with the police, the writer prefers to engage in a potentially libelous smear asking “Is the driver possibly a member of SNAG?” That is an example of the despicable “big lie”, a propaganda technique developed by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 book “Mein Kampf,” for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
The reality of the skateboarding issue in Laguna was more accurately described by a resident addressing the City Council at its April 5 meeting. Precariously descending a steep Laguna road at unsafe speed, a skateboarder lost control of his skateboard, fell off, and slid under an oncoming car, which fortunately had already come to a complete stop. That’s the kind of behavior that leads to dangerous interactions between cars and skateboarders in Laguna Beach.
Manfred E. Wolff, Laguna Beach
Well it certainly does appear that Mr. Wolff has very clearly spelled out the true heart of the character behind the SNAG organization towards our young kids. Indescribably disheartening. By the way, that was the third incident where a small black Mercedes ran skateboarders off the road. The first two incidents were witnessed by parents in follow cars. Are they liars as well….Mr. Wolff? Is that the new defense, they’re all liars?
Manfred, you wrote two ridiculous letters to the editors of the Indy and the Pilot this week. In one, you quote the New York Times (NY Times, Manfred, really?) saying”[w]hile Porsches and Mercedes precariously descend the windy canyon roads here at 25 miles per hour, the skateboarder bombs down at 40 sometimes even 60 mph”. I live on Temple Hills and everyone here knows the luxury cars go considerably faster than 25 MPH and are a much greater problem than anything else on these roads. Last week a woman drove her car off the road and right through my neighbors garage! That’s the 5th accident in 4 years by CARS within 100 feet of our driveway. She was probably a SNAG’er hurrying to her lawyer to sue someone for libel, Manfred, because my careful scientific research shows all SNAG’ers drive luxury cars and speed! In your second abuse of the english language you tried to work in Hitler to somehow associate our kids with a Nazi monster. Who’s working the propaganda mill and distorting truth now, eh Herr Wolff? Keep yer mitts off my mailbox, pal and slow your car down.