For several weeks, the Oakland Police Department has parked multiple electric traffic signs on the eastern side of Lake Merritt warning that anyone barbecuing or drinking alcohol would be cited. The move is meant to cool down what has become one of Oakland’s hottest social scenes: picnics on the grassy knolls along Lakeshore Avenue, between El Embarcadero and East 18th streets.
Thousands of people typically hang out there on weekends, often staying late into the night. But some of these partygoers have apparently been dumping charcoals in the bushes and lake. Others have been leaving behind piles of litter. (Admittedly though, the city hasn’t provided enough trash cans there).
Neighbors who live up the hill in Cleveland Heights and on Lakeshore Avenue have complained to the city about the noise and garbage. Last month the city invited KRON’s Stanley Roberts to shame the litterbugs by filming the aftermath of one weekend’s revelry...
From 2015 ... It’s been going on a long time.
“Oakland Police Threaten to Cite Residents for Barbecues by Lake Merritt”
Pretty much anything goes in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Mayor of Oakland pre-warns illegal alien criminals about raids.
But HAVE A BBQ!?!
Ye gads, public enemy number one, the face of evil.
One legitimate justification was that there's no place to safely dispose of the coals, so people were dumping them haphazardly, and kids were stepping on the ashed-over, but still blisteringly hot coals.
Good back story on this place, thanks for posting the link.
Thanks for posting. The excuse of not having enough trash cans supplied to the bbqers if total utter BS in my book.
Just because the nanny state does not provide these ____ a receptacle for trash does not mean they are notnresponsible (there is something that is lacking,responsibility) for not picking up their crap.
If I used this excuse down at our river lot, the place would be covered in trash. But no, we put our trash in bags and take it home with us.
Liberal spoon fed from the trough whiners. Americas greatest race baiters and card chukkers. America could do without all of them but I would settle for half