LA Occupiers Left Behind a Staggering 30 Tons of Debris…

[RockX]

Occupy L.A.: 30 tons of debris left behind at City Hall tent city

Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two monthAndrea Alarcon, president of the city Public Works board, said workers already have removed 25 tons of belongings from the City Hall park, all of it heading straight to a landfill.
Sanitation crews also have vacuumed up about 3,000 gallons of water that had washed into a catch basin in recent days and are testing it for hazardous materials, she said.

The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid has astonished city workers: books and CDs, luggage and boom boxes, mattresses and dining chairs, cellphones, electric razors, a small red guitar with its neck snapped –- all surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents.

A steady flow of people stopped by the park Wednesday to take photos and video and watch workers in white hazmat suits rake trash into neat piles. As workers broke down tents and placed them in trash cans, Ramir Delgado, 25, snapped photos out of curiosity.

"It's a shame how I see all trash around here," he said. He pointed to his head. "People don't understand that the freedom starts here in your mind."
Delgado said he was disappointed in Occupy L.A.
"You know why this is filthy and not clean is there isn't leadership," he said.

A few feet away, crews in the hazmat suits raked trash of discarded protest signs, nail polish and jars of peanut butter.

"This looks like pure anarchy," Delgado said, adding, “in a Hollywood way.”

Donna Spurgeon, who snapped pictures on her phone, said she was surprised by the mural in the center of the south lawn.

“How did that get built” she asked of the structure that city officials built around an historic fountain, a structure protesters turned into an art piece.

“If you’re here to protest, don’t deface public property,” Spurgeon said.

She said the aftermath looked like a “little war zone, a little ghetto.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...ebris-left-behind-at-city-hall-tent-city.html


:lol:

OWS, another liberal utopian failure.

 

[Damocles]

That is a lot of garbage.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

That is a lot of garbage.

So the trash left a bunch of garbage?

 

[Cancel 2016.11]

Oh perfect. I'm sitting here with my chin resting in my hand, kind of slumped down, feeling badly, and too lazy to start my own thread to vent. And scummy comes along and puts one up for me. I'll just take it over.

So this guy who works here, (Salesman) he's worked for my brother for ten years, long before I ever partnered up with my brother. But I"ve know him that long, and also because he became a couple with my sister-in-law's best friend. He's over family stuff a lot, and of course I've worked with him daily now for several years. Well, four years ago he presented with stage 4 throat cancer. Obviously, he survived. But he never quit smoking. I would tell him all the time, wtf is wrong with you? Knock it off with that shit. Anyway, this morning he tells me he found a lump in his throat and he went to the doctor last night and the doctor said he didn't know, but he had to go to the specialist. He went today, and now my brother just called me and told me it's the worst news. Which I kinda knew because I could see it in his eyes this morning that he knew. And I figure, once you have cancer, you probably know in your gut when it's back. But I'm still sickened. He's only in his early 50's and he threw his life away and I don't want to watch him die now. I guess even if he had quit smoking and ate cruciferous vegetables every day, this still could have been the result. Well, I know that. We'll never know. Just such a shame though. Maybe he can survive again, I don't know. Seems bad though.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Oh perfect. I'm sitting here with my chin resting in my hand, kind of slumped down, feeling badly, and too lazy to start my own thread to vent. And scummy comes along and puts one up for me. I'll just take it over.

So this guy who works here, (Salesman) he's worked for my brother for ten years, long before I ever partnered up with my brother. But I"ve know him that long, and also because he became a couple with my sister-in-law's best friend. He's over family stuff a lot, and of course I've worked with him daily now for several years. Well, four years ago he presented with stage 4 throat cancer. Obviously, he survived. But he never quit smoking. I would tell him all the time, wtf is wrong with you? Knock it off with that shit. Anyway, this morning he tells me he found a lump in his throat and he went to the doctor last night and the doctor said he didn't know, but he had to go to the specialist. He went today, and now my brother just called me and told me it's the worst news. Which I kinda knew because I could see it in his eyes this morning that he knew. And I figure, once you have cancer, you probably know in your gut when it's back. But I'm still sickened. He's only in his early 50's and he threw his life away and I don't want to watch him die now. I guess even if he had quit smoking and ate cruciferous vegetables every day, this still could have been the result. Well, I know that. We'll never know. Just such a shame though. Maybe he can survive again, I don't know. Seems bad though.

That is tough. My sister is the same way as your friend. She had breast cancer, double mastectomy, beat the cancer yet she still fake bakes year round. She tells our mutual friends she just has more Mediterranean looking skin than the rest of her pasty white (in the winter) Irish/English/Scottish/German descended siblings (myself included). She tells them this because she KNOWS it is F'in retarded to fake bake... especially if you have had cancer in the past. That said, everyone knows. She seems to be under the impression that they don't remember her when she was in HS or prior to her fake baking addiction beginning. I ream her out every time I am in KC... but she won't listen (we are a stubborn clan)

 

[RockX]

So the trash left a bunch of garbage?

So true....

 

[Alias]

But.......but..........the Tea Party is racist.....yup, yup.............

 

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That is tough. My sister is the same way as your friend. She had breast cancer, double mastectomy, beat the cancer yet she still fake bakes year round. She tells our mutual friends she just has more Mediterranean looking skin than the rest of her pasty white (in the winter) Irish/English/Scottish/German descended siblings (myself included). She tells them this because she KNOWS it is F'in retarded to fake bake... especially if you have had cancer in the past. That said, everyone knows. She seems to be under the impression that they don't remember her when she was in HS or prior to her fake baking addiction beginning. I ream her out every time I am in KC... but she won't listen (we are a stubborn clan)

Oh, that's really bad, I hope it never comes back. Probably it won't. It's so weird how self-destructive we can be. And it's frustrating to watch someone else being so destructive to themselves.

 

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Oh, that's really bad, I hope it never comes back. Probably it won't. It's so weird how self-destructive we can be. And it's frustrating to watch someone else being so destructive to themselves.

Exactly.

 

[Onceler]

Oh perfect. I'm sitting here with my chin resting in my hand, kind of slumped down, feeling badly, and too lazy to start my own thread to vent. And scummy comes along and puts one up for me. I'll just take it over.

So this guy who works here, (Salesman) he's worked for my brother for ten years, long before I ever partnered up with my brother. But I"ve know him that long, and also because he became a couple with my sister-in-law's best friend. He's over family stuff a lot, and of course I've worked with him daily now for several years. Well, four years ago he presented with stage 4 throat cancer. Obviously, he survived. But he never quit smoking. I would tell him all the time, wtf is wrong with you? Knock it off with that shit. Anyway, this morning he tells me he found a lump in his throat and he went to the doctor last night and the doctor said he didn't know, but he had to go to the specialist. He went today, and now my brother just called me and told me it's the worst news. Which I kinda knew because I could see it in his eyes this morning that he knew. And I figure, once you have cancer, you probably know in your gut when it's back. But I'm still sickened. He's only in his early 50's and he threw his life away and I don't want to watch him die now. I guess even if he had quit smoking and ate cruciferous vegetables every day, this still could have been the result. Well, I know that. We'll never know. Just such a shame though. Maybe he can survive again, I don't know. Seems bad though.

Sad story. Cancer is a real bitch, as is nicotin addiction. I'm sure that isn't too out of the ordinary for people who really like to smoke, but it's a bummer anyway. Sorry to hear it.

 

[Cancel 2016.11]

YOu know what Onceler, you're absolutely right. I was probably always too hard on him. It took me two years to quit myself, on and off the patch. Sometimes I'd cry! I put on 20 pounds, and it took me another year to take that off. The whole process was hard. Not everyone can do it. It's a bad, bad, addiction. Then some say, oh I quit cold turkey one day out of the blue, never looked back. So I think that different people get addicted to a different degree. It's just the way you're made.

 

[Onceler]

YOu know what Onceler, you're absolutely right. I was probably always too hard on him. It took me two years to quit myself, on and off the patch. Sometimes I'd cry! I put on 20 pounds, and it took me another year to take that off. The whole process was hard. Not everyone can do it. It's a bad, bad, addiction. Then some say, oh I quit cold turkey one day out of the blue, never looked back. So I think that different people get addicted to a different degree. It's just the way you're made.

Oh, no doubt. I mean, by any guidelines, I should be an alcoholic - I used to drink my face off, constantly. But these days, I can just have a beer w/ dinner or whatever, and not feel any need for another. I rarely if ever have more than a couple now.

But some people, they just can't; if they try to have a drink again, it completely spirals, and they can't stop. It's definitely wiring, or genes or something like that. I always feel kind of lucky that I'm not wired that way.

 

[Damocles]

Oh perfect. I'm sitting here with my chin resting in my hand, kind of slumped down, feeling badly, and too lazy to start my own thread to vent. And scummy comes along and puts one up for me. I'll just take it over.

So this guy who works here, (Salesman) he's worked for my brother for ten years, long before I ever partnered up with my brother. But I"ve know him that long, and also because he became a couple with my sister-in-law's best friend. He's over family stuff a lot, and of course I've worked with him daily now for several years. Well, four years ago he presented with stage 4 throat cancer. Obviously, he survived. But he never quit smoking. I would tell him all the time, wtf is wrong with you? Knock it off with that shit. Anyway, this morning he tells me he found a lump in his throat and he went to the doctor last night and the doctor said he didn't know, but he had to go to the specialist. He went today, and now my brother just called me and told me it's the worst news. Which I kinda knew because I could see it in his eyes this morning that he knew. And I figure, once you have cancer, you probably know in your gut when it's back. But I'm still sickened. He's only in his early 50's and he threw his life away and I don't want to watch him die now. I guess even if he had quit smoking and ate cruciferous vegetables every day, this still could have been the result. Well, I know that. We'll never know. Just such a shame though. Maybe he can survive again, I don't know. Seems bad though.

I'll send him good thoughts. That sucks. On a brighter side. My stepfather has survived four different cancers, even mesothelioma... This guy can fight it and win.

 

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Occupy L.A.: 30 tons of debris left behind at City Hall tent city

Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two monthAndrea Alarcon, president of the city Public Works board, said workers already have removed 25 tons of belongings from the City Hall park, all of it heading straight to a landfill.
Sanitation crews also have vacuumed up about 3,000 gallons of water that had washed into a catch basin in recent days and are testing it for hazardous materials, she said.

The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid has astonished city workers: books and CDs, luggage and boom boxes, mattresses and dining chairs, cellphones, electric razors, a small red guitar with its neck snapped –- all surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents.

A steady flow of people stopped by the park Wednesday to take photos and video and watch workers in white hazmat suits rake trash into neat piles. As workers broke down tents and placed them in trash cans, Ramir Delgado, 25, snapped photos out of curiosity.

"It's a shame how I see all trash around here," he said. He pointed to his head. "People don't understand that the freedom starts here in your mind."
Delgado said he was disappointed in Occupy L.A.
"You know why this is filthy and not clean is there isn't leadership," he said.

A few feet away, crews in the hazmat suits raked trash of discarded protest signs, nail polish and jars of peanut butter.

"This looks like pure anarchy," Delgado said, adding, “in a Hollywood way.”

Donna Spurgeon, who snapped pictures on her phone, said she was surprised by the mural in the center of the south lawn.

“How did that get built” she asked of the structure that city officials built around an historic fountain, a structure protesters turned into an art piece.

“If you’re here to protest, don’t deface public property,” Spurgeon said.

She said the aftermath looked like a “little war zone, a little ghetto.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...ebris-left-behind-at-city-hall-tent-city.html


:lol:

OWS, another liberal utopian failure.

"The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid..."

What do people think would be left behind after a RAID? After two months of bringing in items to make life a little more comfortable is one supposed to put it all in a back pack and take it with them? How many back packs are needed to carry all the items one takes to go camping for a week or two?

We're throwing you out but please clean up before you go. Yea, right. Like that's going to happen.

 

[Alias]

"The sheer volume of personal belongings left behind after the early morning Los Angeles Police Department raid..."

What do people think would be left behind after a RAID? After two months of bringing in items to make life a little more comfortable is one supposed to put it all in a back pack and take it with them? How many back packs are needed to carry all the items one takes to go camping for a week or two?

We're throwing you out but please clean up before you go. Yea, right. Like that's going to happen.

How many "raids" were conducted on the Tea Party?

 

[Onceler]

How many "raids" were conducted on the Tea Party?

When was the last time the TEA party did anything resembling the scale & duration of OWS?

 

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When was the last time the TEA party did anything resembling the scale & duration of OWS?

the duration of the tea party's movement is far longer than OWS and their movement is also on a far larger scale. Sitting in parks, crapping on cop cars, rape, murder, drugs... yeah OWS is way out in front on those.

 

[Onceler]

the duration of the tea party's movement is far longer than OWS and their movement is also on a far larger scale. Sitting in parks, crapping on cop cars, rape, murder, drugs... yeah OWS is way out in front on those.

You know what I'm talking about. Seriously, where is the apples to apples comparison on a movement that basically camps out thousands of people for months, and another that just meets once in awhile for brief periods of time?

 

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You know what I'm talking about. Seriously, where is the apples to apples comparison on a movement that basically camps out thousands of people for months, and another that just meets once in awhile for brief periods of time?

You are correct. It is not a fair comparison. Comparing responsible adults exercising their rights to protest and working towards getting people of like mind elected should in no way be compared to a bunch of squatters who are 'protesting' yet have a hard time forming a coherent message other than 'gimme gimme gimme' all the while letting drugs, rape, murder into their 'camps' to show us how responsible they are.

 

[Onceler]

You are correct. It is not a fair comparison. Comparing responsible adults exercising their rights to protest and working towards getting people of like mind elected should in no way be compared to a bunch of squatters who are 'protesting' yet have a hard time forming a coherent message other than 'gimme gimme gimme' all the while letting drugs, rape, murder into their 'camps' to show us how responsible they are.

Well, that characterization seems a bit one-sided, but I'm glad we agree on the comparison point...