Posted on 08/26/2010 5:55:05 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Authorities in Venice have removed about a dozen RVs from one neighborhood after complaints about human waste being dumped on the street.
HazMat crews cleaned up the area around Rose and Third avenues Tuesday night after receiving complaints from Venice residents and activists.
The LAPD then made the owners of about 12 RVs move them out out of the area.
A local activist known as "Boston Dawna" said no one was cited. She said the RVs were back in the same spots by Wednesday morning.
A woman who allegedly uncapped a sewage tank on an RV on Pacific Avenue near Fleet Street, letting waste spill out as her partner drove the vehicle, was arrested over the weekend.
Boston Dawna witnessed the incident and reported it to authorities.
L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl issued this statement Wednesday: "In the past few days, alert and vigilant Venice residents noticed and reported three incidents of human waste being dumped or spilled on city streets. These are sickening and offensive crimes that threaten public health and diminish the quality of life."
Rosendahl said the incidents were reported at Fleet Street and Pacific Avenue; 3rd Street and Sunset Boulevard; and 3rd Street and Rose Street.
Venice residents have apparently complained about the RV dumping issue for years.
They're currently trying to circulate petitions to get "no oversized vehicle parking" signs put up. They're meeting with resistance from the city council, according to some activists.
The California Coastal Commission has declined to get involved in the matter.
Will they even notice?
For some reason this makes me think of the South Park episode where Cartman led the homeless to California.
LA sent its poop to Kern County.
:-( Even after we voted against it.
“HazMat crews cleaned up the area around Rose and Third”
Was the problem around rose and Third or around those turds that rose?
RV now means Rotten Vehicle as well as Ruined Vacation.
If Venice became Calcutta, it might actually be an improvement.
... or Culiacán.
well anything to make it smell better I guess.
Obamanomics is flushing up everywhere.
Given my opinion of California, I might do this myself, and I don’t even have an RV.
Sounds like lots of community activists there!
Could that be part of the problem?
Maybe they need a community organizer...
Yep that one was classic “In the city, the city of venice, California, you can chill if your homeless”
Venice used to be full of gangs, then they got kicked out and it become really expensive to live there, looks like its gone back to being crap
eat plenty of mexican food......
It’s just Eddie doing his thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4NBaeQQys
Like San Francisco human waste floods the streets.
Imagine being in Venice, Italy.
Wonder where the waste from those houses goes?
What accounts for this? Who are these people?
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