Irvine has had its weird moments. Consider Larry C Ford, MD, a mormon gynecologist in Irvine. With ties to South Africa's biological warfare people.
When a business partner survived an attempted assasination in Irvine, the doctor blew his own head off when questioned by Irvine Police. The upstanding LDS physician had high explosives, machine guns, detonators, ammo buried behind in his nice neat little Irvine house, and dangerous pathogens keeping cool in his garage fridge. The police had to evacuate the surrounding houses when they started to dig up his yard.

The Irvine police dropped the ball after Ford offed himself, or perhaps there were "other forces" advising them to stop looking into it.

Bastion of normalcy, epitome of upper middle class suburbia, Irvine is, most of the time.