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Occupy L.A.: 30 tons of debris left behind at City Hall tent city
The LA Times ^ | November 30, 2011 | David Zahniser and Nicole Santa Cruz

Posted on 12/01/2011 11:08:06 AM PST by CedarDave

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 months.

Andrea 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.

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: occupyla; occupywallstreet; ows
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At another LA Times article, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa warned the cleanup cost could exceed $1 million.

Those who compare OWS protesters to Tea Party demonstrators obviously have another agenda.

1 posted on 12/01/2011 11:08:12 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave

The DEBRIS Party!


2 posted on 12/01/2011 11:14:21 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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As far as I know the Tea Party has never even left a tea bag behind... The MSM tries to paint us with the same brush..


3 posted on 12/01/2011 11:16:04 AM PST by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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I guess you could say the OWS crowd accomplished one thing—they created some shovel-ready jobs.


4 posted on 12/01/2011 11:16:05 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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Quite literally!


5 posted on 12/01/2011 11:17:01 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: CedarDave

Gaia is going to be pissed.


6 posted on 12/01/2011 11:17:46 AM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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Sounds like they are following the template of the "Occupy the Obama Inauguration" movement.

It's funny... 'a movement' seems to be an appropriate term here.

7 posted on 12/01/2011 11:18:19 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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Just like the million tea-partiers left behind Apr. 12th /s


8 posted on 12/01/2011 11:19:46 AM PST by In God I trust
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To: CedarDave

That wasn’t very ‘green’ of them.


9 posted on 12/01/2011 11:21:00 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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“As far as I know the Tea Party has never even left a tea bag behind...”

At a Tea Party event at the state capital in Olympia WA. was ending, a friend and I noticed one lone sign someone left on a park lawn. We made a bee line for it to gather it up, and when we did we hear this nice applause from a crowd of fellow Tea Party people that saw what we did. That in a nutshell is the Tea Party.

10 posted on 12/01/2011 11:25:19 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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I guess you could say the OWS crowd accomplished one thing—they created some shovel-ready jobs.

Left behind: Occupiers' treasures become the city's trash

11 posted on 12/01/2011 11:26:03 AM PST by CedarDave
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Democrats are Pigs...


12 posted on 12/01/2011 11:29:01 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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Well, lemme see now, - - - how does that old bromide go? Hmmmm - - - Oh, yes! “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

Well now, we have 30 tons of OWS excrement and 60 days to make their deposits, - - - . Hmmmmm - - - . Maybe “A half ton of OWS s__t deposits a day makes the OWS Bank a better place to play.”

BTW, anyone for a nice clean cup of TEA?


13 posted on 12/01/2011 11:31:22 AM PST by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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As far as I know the Tea Party has never even left a tea bag behind... The MSM tries to paint us with the same brush..

Occupy L.A.: Left behind - A photo essay on the personal effects left behind by Occupy L.A. protesters on the lawn surrounding City Hall after the Los Angeles Police Department shut down what was the nation’s largest remaining Occupy camp.

14 posted on 12/01/2011 11:31:46 AM PST by CedarDave
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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.

Easy come - easy go.....

People who work for their money don't just cavalierly discard those kinds of belongings.

You can bet most of it was paid for by taxpayers, mom and dad or the money men behind the "Occupy" movement. At least the part that wasn't stolen.


15 posted on 12/01/2011 11:34:02 AM PST by Iron Munro (Unattended children will be towed away at the owners expense)
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...surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents.

Where did all the freeloaders go?

16 posted on 12/01/2011 11:37:57 AM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: LeonardFMason
The DEBRIS Party!

Trashbaggers.
17 posted on 12/01/2011 11:38:35 AM PST by SpaceBar
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...everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters...

Oddball curiousities?

Dildoes and ballgags and whips, OH MY!
Dildoes and ballgags and whips, OH MY!
Dildoes and ballgags and whips, OH MY!

18 posted on 12/01/2011 11:39:02 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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You have to wonder who bought them all of those tents.

Oh, wait! I think I know.


19 posted on 12/01/2011 11:39:07 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: hosepipe

Like blood sucking parasites, they have moved on looking for another host.


20 posted on 12/01/2011 11:42:33 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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