The sun-kissed people of Newport Beach, California, are riled and swollen with anger because some of their town's 13 lifeguards make more than $200,000 a year. That's more than what some of America's hard-working business executives make!

[A lifeguard on one of New York City's beaches, taken earlier this month, when it was remarkably not raining. Via Flickr user H E T's I Hate/Love NYC 09 gallery]