Posted on 05/21/2019 11:06:13 AM PDT by ransomnote
Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year's record number of flea-borne typhus cases.
Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago. The rodents can carry typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria rubbed into the eyes or cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe flu-like symptoms.
The NBC4 I-Team first told Mayor Eric Garcetti's office about the piles of filth in the 700 block of Ceres Avenue in October. At the time, he promised to make sure trash doesn't pile up like that.
The garbage was cleaned after the interview, but conditions have worsened over the next seven months.
That’s not true. The title belongs to Santa Ana.
Cloward-Piven
Simple solution: rename the street to "Vista de las Pulgas."
Went to L.A. for the first time recently and was appalled. These major American utopian leftist cities are turning into third world sh*tholes.
Thinking logically where to pile tons of $hit? In a $hithole of course and California has the majority of them
wonder why the mayor dropped out of the presidential race.
San Diego 149 deaths to Hep C last year. Paying tens of thousand a month to have the streets scrubbed three times a week.
I was in Mexico City in 1975 and 1989 and never saw huge piles of garbage or homeless camped out on the streets.
It’s as if the “who are we to judge” part of the liberal mindset has overridden the “defecation in public streets is possibly a bad thing” idea.
Heh. I feel nothing when I look at that. Except for concern for my colleague who is going to visit there this weekend. If this is what it takes to bring those people to their senses, so be it. If it has to get worse still, I’m ok with that too.
The public defecation and urination would immediately stop if the cops were just ordered to taze anybody caught in the act.
Screw this Christian forbearance. Let 'em die, bleeding from every orifice, men, women, children, livestock.
Once the smell goes away, we can rebuild.
I lived in LA from the late fifties to the early seventies. What a wonderful place to be in those years. So sad; and all due to corruption.
Progressive LA moving into medieval times. Aren’t Democrats and liberals leading us to better times?
Oprima dos para Ingles.
Mexico is cleaner.
Mexico is actually run by whites.
You expect something else from a Progressive Third World Sh!thole city?
you wouldn’t like the innards of Portland or Seattle any better......
being from back east, back in the early 60’s people talked of California as a paradise...full of opportunity....
Maybe an ebola patient or two can be brought in.
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