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ByGillianFlaccusand John Rogers TheAssociatedPress LOSANGELES Pssst.Ready to water that beautiful lush lawn of yours? The one that's the envy of the entire neighborhood. If you live in Southern California, you'd better wait until after midnight. Preferably on a cloudy, new-moon night during a power outage when it's so dark even night-vision gog- gles won't give away your position. Otherwise, you could wind up the star of the latest drought-sham- ing video posted on You- Tube or Twitter. "Yeah, I put your ad- dress out there. The world is watching a lot more," says Tony Corcoran, one of sev- eral people who spend their spare time these days can- vassing the tony communi- ties of Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and elsewhere, looking for people wast- ing water during the worst California drought in recent memory. Corcoran alone esti- mates he's put up on You- Tube more than 100 videos of water-wasters, complete with their addresses. Others tweet out ad- dresses and photos of water scofflaws, using hashtags such as #DroughtSham- ing. Still others are snap- ping smartphone photos of them and sending them di- rectly to authorities. Not everyone is happy about it. One woman, quickly tir- ing of Corcoran's lecture on conservation while she wa- tered her plants, turned her hose on him. In Beverly Hills, where he was showing a reporter and photographer water running down the street in front of a mansion, the an- gry resident called police. Two patrol cars quickly re- sponded, but the officers took no action. In Hollywood, Sam Bak- man, who manages a con- dominium complex, said his building was recently shamed wrongly by some- body on Twitter over a bro- ken sprinkler head that was quickly repaired. He showed a reporter the city- issued restrictions on wa- tering and pointed out his sprinkler timers fall well within the guidelines. "If they thought we were doing something wrong, why not come knock on my door?" he asked. Corcoran, a restaurant group administrator who kept his New York attitude when he came to laid-back Los Angeles awhile ago, is unrepentant. "The whole point is to get people to change, not to shame," he said. With California in the fourth year of a drought with no end in sight, the governor has ordered every- one to use 25 percent less water, and drought sham- ers say the easiest way to accomplish that is to quit watering your yard. Or at least be careful about it and not let water spill into the street. "I was a passenger in a car driving by, and first I noticed water down the street. And when we drove up, I saw the broken sprin- kler head," said Patricia Perez of Eagle Rock who quickly tweeted out a pic- ture of the mess. She also emailed it to the local wa- ter agency. "When you're trying to do your best personally, and you're trying to con- serve water, it's very irri- tating," she said of one of the reasons behind drought shaming. Dan Estes, a Los Angeles real estate broker, has gone so far as to build his own free app, DroughtShame, that records the time and place where people see waste. Unlike some other drought shamers, he doesn't believe in getting in peo- ple's faces or outing them to the world. Instead, peo- ple who use his app send the information and a pho- tograph to him, and he for- wards it to the appropriate water agency. "I drought shamed the preschool next to my apartment," Estes said. "Timer was off on their sprinklers. Those things were on for five hours, and the sidewalk was a river. I was non-confron- tational, but at the same time, public." Twenty minutes after he reported it, Estes said, the sprinklers were shut off. CALIFORNIA Waterwastersbeware:#DroughtShamingonrise JAEC.HONG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Tony Corcoran surveys water coming out of a drain in Beverly Hills. Corcoran is one of several people who spend their spare time these days canvassing the tony communities of Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and elsewhere, looking for people wasting water during the worst California drought in recent memory. The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A new Berkeley city ordinance that requires cellphone sellers to warn customers about radi- ation from the devices vio- lates free speech rights, an industry trade group says in a new lawsuit. CTIA-The Wireless Asso- ciation says in the suit filed Monday in federal court that Berkeley would force sellers to convey a message that was inaccurate, mis- leading, and controversial, and that they disagree with, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday. Berkeley officials say the warning language in the or- dinance was taken directly from manufacturers' state- ments and is more limited than a similar ordinance in San Francisco that was later dropped. "Berkeley's measure is designed to avoid the le- gal snares that stopped San Francisco's effort," said Charles Burress, an assis- tant to Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates. The city would require cellphone retailers to tell customers that they could be exposed to radio-fre- quency radiation at levels exceeding federal guidelines if they keep their cellphones in their pants, shirt pockets or bras while the devices are switched on and connected to a wireless network. San Francisco's ordinance would have required cell- phone retailers to tell cus- tomers the phones could ex- pose them to dangerous lev- els of radiation, classified as possibly cancer-causing by the World Health Organiza- tion, the Chronicle reported. The city dropped the or- dinance in 2013 after a fed- eral appeals court barred its enforcement. The ordinance had also been challenged by the wireless association. The group's lawsuit against Berkeley says the city's language falsely im- plies that the federal guide- lines are safety limits. They are, in fact, set well below any danger levels, CTIA's lawyers said. BUSINESS Ce ll ph one i nd us tr y su es Berkeley over warning-label law The Associated Press LOSANGELES A retired Su- perior Court judge surren- dered to police after firing a weapon at officers during a standoff at his Los Ange- les townhouse, authorities said Thursday. James Bascue called 911 on Wednesday, saying there were armed men inside his home at a gated community in the Sawtelle neighbor- hood, Officer Liliana Pre- ciado said. When officers arrived, they peered through a win- dow and saw Bascue alone on a couch loading two guns, Preciado said. Bas- cue did not respond to of- ficers and pointed a gun at his head, she said. Bascue, who is in his 70s, then fired a shot in the direction of officers out- side, Preciado said. Offi- cers heard a second gun- shot from inside the town- house and called for SWAT backup. Police said they con- tacted Bascue's son, who unsuccessfully tried to talk his father into giving him- self up. Bascue eventually spoke with a neighbor, who per- suaded him to surrender, Preciado said. Police did not find anyone else inside the home. No officers were hurt. He was given a mental evaluation, but authorities decided against a 72-hour mental-health hold and ar- rested him instead. He could face charges including assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, Preciado said. She did not know if he has an attorney. LOS ANGELES Retired judge arrested a er firing gun Locallyowned business offering high value, low cost energy for decades. 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