INSIDE SCOOP

-- Compiled by Daily Pilot staff

We all know that police like doughnuts. It’s so much a part of our

collective conscience that you’d think they wouldn’t need to hide it

anymore.

Don’t be so sure. If you’ve passed by DK’s Donuts ever, you’re most

likely missing out on the hole (sorry, we had to!) story.

Because around the back, where those driving on Fairview Road can’t

see, is where the Costa Mesa Police congregate most mornings, we presume

for a cup o’ joe and a glazed doughnut.

We presume, because of course we’d never stop for the same. Everyone

knows journalists are all about tofu and rice cakes.

Seeing more than Speedos

Brandon Powers may be an Academic All-Star, but that didn’t help when

his Speedos slipped down during a swim meet.

As Powers related to a Thursday morning breakfast group that was

honoring Newport Beach’s top high school seniors, his Speedos did a

partial disappearing act after he dove into the pool to compete in the

100-yard butterfly, drawing “awes from the crowd.” When he tried to pull

them up halfway through the swim, he was disqualified for breaking his

stroke.

“At least I wasn’t swimming backstroke,” Powers quipped to a knowing

laugh from the crowd.