An unsurprising picture from... guess where?

It has been said that every action, every deed, every regulation, every law, everything has it consequences, some of them intended, and some of them... not... Now that it is not only legal but mandatory for people (not just Muslim women) to cover their faces in public, a certain type of masked man (not the Lone Ranger) was bound to appear, sooner or later. And here he is.

To answer the headline question, this photo was taken in the deep south... the deep south of California, that is... San Diego County to be precise... the great city of Santee, to be even more precise. San Diego Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane is now looking into the matter. Meanwhile, the "Klantee" label, which the city has been trying to shed for years, has been revived on Twitter.

VIDEO: Building a railroad from scratch for "The Lone Ranger"

OK, let's forget about the never-ending cares of the world for ten minutes. Here's a great video on the making of The Lone Ranger. To make the railroad scenes look real, they built a real, full-sized, 19th-century railroad, including the locomotives and rolling stock, from the ground up. Here you'll see why and how it was done.



Too bad, though, that The Lone Ranger turned out to be something of a rotten tomato. Johnny Depp is one of Walt's favourite actors, but (as mentioned in my review of The Rum Diary), his presence alone cannot overcome a bad script and/or bad directing and/or...

Thanks and a tip of the Stetson to Agent 6 -- a big fan of machines that move -- for sending this to us.

Footnote: If the opening shot in this video reminds me of the opening shot in Blazing Saddles... great minds think alike.