He finally was arrested, then released from jail after three days because the District Attorney's Office didn't file formal charges on time.

He was suspected in several more burglaries after his release, then rearrested in December with about 100 sets of keys to different makes of cars and a dozen access cards to parking garages.

Third District Judge Robin Reese released him from jail May 22 and placed him on probation after he pleaded guilty to third-degree counts of theft and burglary but promised to be a good and honest person from now on.

Well, that didn't last long.

Beebe was arrested July 4, just six weeks after his spiritual rebirth, on suspicion of - you guessed it -aggravated burglary.

Setting an example: Dan Earl of Salt Lake City was driving on Wasatch Boulevard near Skyline High School a week ago and noticed a student driver vehicle.

The teenage driver looked attentive, but the instructor was talking on his cell phone.

A little reminder: Nineteen-year-old Dylan Camp of Salt Lake City was driving on the freeway near Inkam, Idaho, recently when he swerved to miss a dog. He overcorrected, rolled the car, skidded into the center barrow pit and finally came to a stop upside down.

The car was totaled. But Camp didn't have a scratch on him. He was wearing his seat belt.

Getting no respect: U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop must be the Rodney Dangerfield of Utah.

The official Web site of Ogden, the population center of Bishop's 1st Congressional District, says: "If you need information about federal officials click here and you have access to the web sites of the White House, Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Bob Bennett, or Representative Jim Hansen."

Hansen retired from Congress nearly four years ago and Bishop has represented that district ever since. Maybe somebody should tell Ogden.

Codependent enabler? The August 2006 edition of Salt Lake Magazine features a section titled, "You Had to Be There . . . Eight Harrowing Experiences (as told by the Utahns who lived them)."

Some were really harrowing: "Buried Alive by an Avalanche," by Chris Harmston; "Breasts Enhanced," by anonymous; "Eating Rocky Mountain Oysters," by Vanessa Chang; "Race Car Crash," by Jim Cooksey; "Chased by an Elephant", by James Ross Gardner; "Bit by a Deadly Spider," by Justin Kinnaird; and "Win an Olympic Medal," by Jim Shea.

The one by Deeda Seed, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's former communications director, was titled "Fired by the Mayor."

Seed noted that the last thing she said to Rocky was, "You're such a narcissist." She spoke of how demeaning it was to work for Anderson, calling it a "tour of duty."

Then she says she would work for him again.

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