Finally a moment to wrap up the shit year that’s past. While we hit bottom, barely scraped by with paying the bills,  LegmanLA killed it in our first year up with world around news picked up by Huffington, LAOBserved and with an inquiry of ours that launched a column on Truthdig.com. We’re starting the year with another exclusive LA crime drama that originated on this blog and got picked up by Main Stream Media, the hipsters vs. Mongols outlaw biker shooting at The Echo.

 The thud of rotor blades distracted our writing last night, at 11:05pm to be precise, and when the Ghetto Bird persisted in hovering over Legman HQ, searchlight raking our window every lap of the block, we hit up our LAPD Scanner to find out what was going down. After ten minutes of monitoring we heard the following:

PO: Robbery in area of Gramercy and Franklin. Suspect three male blacks.  Victim reports items taken: Wallet with a PENGUIN on it.

 The police chopper made another pass, found nothing and broadcast they were returning for refuel. Now anyone can get jacked up around here, but in general given the choice of targets, predators eschew the strong and alert  for the stick thin vegan hipster who can’t bench press his shirt any day, so in that light we’re blaming the victim here. When word gets out that highly desireable PENGUIN wallets are easily available from these hipsters? We’ll have all of South Central up in this bitch.

When it comes to business, Legman has dropped the ball again and again. But this time we see opportunity and we’re taking it, as it landed on our doorstep this morning in the shape of a fresh out of the showroom shopping cart. A thing of beauty that we imagine will make heads turn as we roll down the back alleys of Hollywood Boulevard, surface mining all that precious scrap .  Now word on the street is copper has reached  record prices, but that’s an old economy application. We’re thinking of using all our brand building skills to monetize this cart in new ways.Perhaps lease it out to hipsters at hour intervals, tied to an iPhone app? Outfitted with a CART CAM, we’ll have millions of viewers for the live feed. A reality show, a tie in book guiding others to shopping cart success,the potential to CRUSH IT has us reeling. If you got ideas for this start up, here is your chance to get in.

There’s no doubt in which camp this way cool DJ and neighborhood Barrista stands, but other cats in an LA pop-up shop Legman hit up confronted us with this town’s now hackneyed dilemma: discerning homeless from hipster.

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