Posted on 04/12/2023 5:48:44 PM PDT by kiryandil
t was not one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most prominent roles, but is proving to be disproportionately controversial. The Hollywood star and former California governor filmed himself filling in a troublesome pothole near his Los Angeles home, proffering it as an act of civic responsibility by an exasperated resident. But he was then told by the authorities it wasn’t officially a pothole at all.
According to city officials, the “giant pothole” Schwarzenegger and a friend packed with quick-drying cement and topped with sand was actually an essential service trench for work being performed by a utility company in the Brentwood neighborhood.
Instead of solving a problem, the actor who generated mayhem and destruction in his best-known role as the Terminator, was creating one with his rogue deed, with SoCal Gas, the natural gas utility, now having to reopen the trench to complete the contract.
Schwarzenegger, a former two-term Republican governor of California, posted a video of the pair laboring to his 5.1 million Twitter followers.
“Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset about this giant pothole that’s been screwing up cars and bicycles for weeks, I went out with my team and fixed it. I always say, let’s not complain, let’s do something about it. Here you go,” he wrote.
In the clip, a driver stops to thank him for taking action, and the actor said: “You have to do it yourself. This is crazy. For three weeks I’ve been waiting for this hole to be closed.”
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They can shut the heck up.
Arnold is no longer a media darling.
“But he was then told by the authorities it wasn’t officially a pothole at all.”
It was filled with water, and was larger than 2 square feet in size, hence by law is a wetland under CA Code K691.4791. Penalty for disturbing a wetland is 50 years in prison and/or $6 million dollar fine.
If the picture is accurate (as opposed to a file photo) it is pretty clear it was a cut for utility work. But most of those have warning signs and are only there for a few days before the work is done and the patched instead of being left open for weeks.
If that ‘service trench’ was so very essential, the space should have been marked with a sign explaining this to the public. Arnold made a mistake, but so did the county in ignoring that area for a long time.
Some invisible bureaucrat is just in a snit because their negligence was called out.
The utility workers should be putting plywood over the hole, when they aren’t working on it so cars don’t lose their frames driving over it.
Got that one right! Better if they identify the bureaucrats and workers that tore up or allowed the road to be torn up without proper signage and then left abandoned. They should be disciplined or even fired.
Cheers to Arnold for caring enough to do something. Now let the city step up, thank him or at this point apologize, and do their part.
Arnold is the Anti-American piece of crap who said “screw your freedoms.”
in other news, I poured gasoline on a fire ant mound
It was obviously a service cut, it seems that a celebrity ex-Governor could have called the city and the gas company and his call would have been received.
I thought that was Howard Stern but they all read from the same script.
lol!
If it wasn’t a pothole what was it ? A pink elephant?
These unresponsive bureaucraps need to be flushed off the taxpayers’ payroll
That’s a good point that I hadn’t thought of.
Generally they put a sheet of steel to drive over open street holes for ongoing roadwork.
Typical city of la lieing about a pothole
If socgas was working it would be blocked off or a metal plate down to drive over it. City aholes
Austrian Gonna Austrian, just like Schickelgruber.
In the 70’s Summit Rd. between Santa Clara and Santa Cruz in California was a heavily used road. The Summit Store put a pickle jar out for donations to fix the potholes. When enough money accumulated asphalt would be bought and placed by locals. The counties deemed it as illegal, done without permits,insurance etc. Has not gotten any better.
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