The law can’t get between a man and his best friend

Lady Harley died seven months ago, but the Siberian husky is still being honored for her riding skills.

The Ripley’s Believe It or Not newspaper strip just ran a cartoon recounting how Lady H. rode more than 200,000 miles on the custom motorcycle of owner Jeremiah Gerbracht.

Small wonder that Gerbracht, an actor, wants to put the pooch’s story on the silver screen.

“She spread goodwill,” he said. “People would wave to us on the street. People love that stuff.”

Unmentioned in the Ripley’s strip was a possibly more impressive stat: Lady H. and Gerbracht beat eight traffic citations in the L.A. area, partly because no lawmaker ever thought of addressing the issue of dogs on motorcycles.

Lady H. (cont.): In one of the last cases against Gerbracht, the city failed to gain a conviction on the basis of a law so old that it prohibited carrying animals “on the running board” of motor vehicles.

Gerbracht, who is hearing impaired, said Lady Harley was a “service dog” who could alert him to high-pitched sounds, such as sirens.

The two, who trained extensively before taking to the road together, never had an accident, he said.

Gerbracht added, by the way, that he also wants to make a movie about Jenny, his previous dog. Jenny was able to climb trees. But we’ll have to talk about her another time, class.

Thunderbolts from heaven? Not in this case. In Santa Monica, Joseph Fitzsimons found an energy provider that works much closer to home (see photo).

Related item, sort of: Lisalee Wells of Long Beach saw a juxtaposition of signs in Virginia that lent a secular touch to the church service (see photo).

Two thumbs up! Congrats to Eli Tirosh of L.A., who recently won $10,000 and the West Coast message-texting title.

Alas, in the finals of the LG National Texting Championship in New York, Tirosh, 21, lost out to 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pa., who typed out “the first two lines of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ from ‘Mary Poppins’ in just 15 seconds,” reported InformationWeek.com’s Stephen Wellman, a brave guy who actually attended the event and watched 300 phone-users in action.

“Each contestant started off the round with their hands behind their backs and their phones folded up sitting on a table,” Wellman said. “There was a countdown and at the end of each countdown, the competitors had to grab their phones and then immediately text a 150-character phrase displayed on a giant monitor.”

Pozgar, who won a total of $25,000, had trained well for the event. She worked her way up to sending 4,000 text messages a month at home.

miscelLAny: In one of his “Fun Facts” segments, comic David Letterman asserted that in San Diego police “have to read a suspect his rights and the surf report.”