You could bust every car wash in Los Amgeles. I guess these guys pissed somebody off ;-)
Yes, something is missing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/us/11carwash.html?_r=1&ref=us
February 10, 2009
LOS ANGELES — More than 500 carwashes here employ thousands of workers to soap and scrub millions of vehicles. On Tuesday, the city attorney accused the industry of systemic labor violations and charged three men with 176 counts of worker abuse at four family-owned carwashes.
... The complaint, filed in Superior Court, charges two brothers, Benny and Nissan Pirian, who own the four carwashes in the city and two others in Los Angeles County, with failing to pay $450,000 in wages over five years. They could face more than 80 years in jail and $136,000 in fines.
After some workers tried to form a union and filed a class-action lawsuit in May, a manager at the Pirian-owned Vermont Hand Wash in Los Feliz, Manuel Reyes, brandished a machete and held rounds of ammunition in his hand “to scare employees into silence,” prosecutors said.
...Nearly 40 workers, listed as John and Jane Does in the criminal complaint, said they were paid a flat rate of $35 to $40 for working more than eight hours a day with as little as 15 minutes a day for lunch.