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5FTUJOH You don’t have to be the love-child of Sherlock Hol- mes and Dick Tracy to get a read on this one. Without suspects or the first clue on what else may have been swiped, authori- ties told The Washington Post that the crime will probably remain unsolved. For us old timers it brings back memories of one Jack Nicholson’s greatest mov- ies. “Forget it Jake, it’s China- town …” “It was definitely an inside job,” Flint Police Chief Tim Johnson told the Journal. “The power cord to the TV wasn’t even taken. The average drug user knows that you’d need the power cord to be able to pawn it.” “It was somebody that had knowledge of those docu- ments that really wanted to keep them out of the right hands, out of the hands of someone who was going to tell the real story of what’s going on with Flint water.” Flint Mayor Karen Weaver was a bit more cautious. “Well, sure, it’s suspicious when they go into a room where all the water files were and they take a TV, but not the cord to make it work, yes,” Weaver said. “We don’t know if papers or files were taken because papers were all over the floor,” Weaver told the Jour- nal. “Maybe papers were taken, maybe they weren’t. We just don’t know.” To a detective, that might sound a little evasive, no? Doc stolen from Flint city hall in inside job Continued from page one Local officials and emergency managers say they’re stumped as to who might have stolen the documents – but there were reports of a nine-foot-tall hairy primate of some kind riding what appeared to be some kind of magical horse in the vicinity. I f you’re one of the people that has been passionate about ad- vocating for budget cuts, small government and the rest, don’t forget to stop and smell the roses – the dream might have actually come true. For instance, Los Angeles says it has a plan to pass off responsibility for sidewalk repairs to residents and businesses. The state of Il- linois is no longer funding its university system. Kids and teachers are distraught because of budget cuts that turn the promise of educa- tion into a cruel joke. All of this is happening while most of the candidates for POTUS argue about how much to add to our $1,000,000,000,000 annual military spending. But if you really want to get a good look at the future, cast your gaze towards the LA County Coroner’s Of- fice. The Los Angeles County’s coroner is resigning after only 2 1/2 years, saying un- derstaffing left him unable to do the job amid complaints of stacked bodies and testing backlogs, according to the New York Times. Medical Examiner-Coro- ner Mark Fajardo says he’s had it and returning to his former post as chief forensic pathologist in nearby River- side County. “Ultimately, I wasn’t sup- plied the resources I need to perform my job duties,” Fajardo told the Los Angeles Times. “Every year we made requests for positions that needed to be filled. Each year we were not supplied the personnel we need.” The dead, unlike some other groups, are not exactly politically powerful. The LA County Coroner’s office is one of the busiest in the nation, handling about 8,500 physical examinations a year as part of more than 20,000 investigations. But the lack of funding and apathy has turned the office into something that looks right out of the third world. Herneisha Thomas told reporters that she had to wait weeks before the office released the body of her brother, who was shot to death in June. By the time the family had the funeral it was unclear if they should have an open casket because the body had started to decompose. One of the major issues is the backlog of several hundred toxicology tests to determine whether drugs or alcohol were in a body at the time of death. The tests are taking up to six months to complete and until they’re finished the coroner can’t close the case. The price of budget cuts Is this the L.A. Coroner’s office or Somalia? The L.A. County Coroner’s Office, where bodies rot due to a lack of refrigeration. Making sure kids get clean drinking water and burying the dead appear to be two things we can no longer afford. The F-35 fighter planes are another story.