A group of folks, seeking a hustle around California's skyrocketing coastal land values, plunk their mobile homes beneath a marine escarpment riddled with previous evidence of repeated slope failures and declare themselves a bona fide community.
Now they're victims and are due a comfortable retirement package from California's taxpayers and an adjacent land owner.
The California Hustle never ends.
Driving by La Conchita before the landslide, I never understood how someone could feel comfortable living underneath that looming hillside - especially since it's obvious that good ol' Mother Nature is going to keep on breaking the cliffs down. After all, millions of years ago that hillside stretched all the way out to the Channel Islands.