Professor May Face Jail if LA Weatherman Harassed

[Are_grits_groceries]

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a college professor on a crusade to change the way a Los Angeles weatherman uses terminology has to leave him alone or face six months in jail.

Melanie Patton Renfrew, a Harbor College teacher, wants KNBC-TV's Fritz Coleman to change references to onshore and offshore winds.

She says the terms are confusing because people don't know which are coming and which are going.

Burbank-based KNBC obtained a restraining order in March 2008 after calling her behavior bizarre and saying Coleman feared for his safety.

Prosecutors say she continued sending letters and e-mails. Last month, she pleaded no contest to violating the order.

Burbank Assistant City Attorney Denny Wei says the case will be dismissed if she leaves Coleman alone through next August.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/03/us/AP-US-ODD-Weatherman-Warpath.html

Alright then! Just in case:
Onshore-Wind blowing from the sea toward the land.
Offshore-Wind blowing from the land toward the sea.

[liberalhistorian]

1. Wow, what a nutball!

Sometimes people are just too bizarre for their own good.

[ddeclue]

2. Perhaps she should refer the confused to a DICTIONARY instead of harassing the weatherman

for using the English language correctly.

:eyes:

[boobooday]

3. Leave. Fritz. Alone!!!

Mean old professor!

[Nikki Stone1]

4. Harbor College is a two year community college in the city

I know the place and am surprised that anyone from there has reached the point of harassing Fritz Coleman, who was always more of a bad comedian than a weather forecaster.