Posted on 12/02/2019 7:40:40 PM PST by RightGeek
OAKLAND — They mysteriously appeared about a year ago — dozens of logs the length of cars, plopped in front of industrial businesses in a two-block stretch along West Oakland’s Poplar Street, between West Grand Avenue and 18th Street.
If the purpose behind the logs was to drive away the homeless who parked their RVs and other vehicles there, the strategy worked for the most part.
City officials say the logs have prevented crews from cleaning up the two blocks, yet they’ve done little to get them removed: Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney said she reached out to local business owners to find out who put the logs there, but no one would tell.
The city’s Public Works Department considers the logs an “intentional obstruction of the public right of way,” which is illegal, spokesman Sean Maher said. But Public Works has not reached out to the local business owners who may be responsible.
That’s because the city enforces certain code violations only in response to complaints, and it hasn’t received any official complaints about the logs, Maher said. Though homeless advocates have criticized the logs, nearby business owners — some who have complained about overnight campers in the past — apparently don’t mind them.
East Bay Community Law Center attorney Osha Neumann, who represents and advocates for homeless people, wonders if the city would treat RV dwellers with the same indifference as it does the logs.
“There are all kinds of rules and city ordinances about illegal dumping, but I guess it’s OK to dump and obstruct if you’re doing it to obstruct homeless people from being there,” Neumann said.
(Excerpt) Read more at eastbaytimes.com ...
Right. And there are those living on the margin trying to just get by via living in a van/rv. But CA is working against these people by disallowing overnight parking/putting logs in the way in many places so no one can stay even one night.
Yet CA seems to be proud of and promotes the homeless living in tents with public defecation on the sidewalks.
Arthur Spooner is the prime suspect with his 555-LOGS phone number.
And protection rackets by organized crime.
There’s a growing vanlife/rv movement doing that now.
A lot are retirees out for an adventure, but many are those who cannot afford a sticks and bricks place to live so they live in their van/rv/even car. There is nothing wrong with it and to me it even evokes a spirit of the covered wagon era.
Many states and cities are devising ordinances against sleeping in your car/van overnight on a public street, so it may soon be a situation where instead of being in an rv/van/car, people will be forced to live in a tent and defecate on the sidewalk. Thanks, California.
“...but no one would tell. ...”
Nobody talks, everybody walks...
This is how Joe Little Guy fights back.
Excellent.
Most places won’t let you sleep overnight on the street. Was this a long time ago?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take many bad apples to spoil the bunch.
If your customers have to step over human excrement to get in to your business, you won’t be in business very long.
I’m surprised nobody has stolen it for firewood.
Lol!
Winner Of The Innerwebs!
Let these gentle, diverse and woody segments of living treeings return to and live upon their ancestors' land, the land that treelongs to them! Stop this homeless socialist imperialist invader, this Tree Cutz Klan.
If you see the homeless in a parking spot or on the side of the road or in your driveway or lawn, chopcupying the space where a sapling's dreams were brutally snuffed out, do it for the trees.
Axe them to leave. And if you see something, saw something.
I’ve always said being homeless in CA in summertime is very pleasant
I traveled the whole state in the sierras as a yout
I wonder about the plants growing up through the cracked asphalt in the street. They look to me like they might be tumbleweeds.
Of course you are speaking about the liberal
voting majority of CA. Not all of us are urban and
liberal.
Logs line Poplar Street
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What type of tree? nyuk nyuk nyuk
Art project.
re: “Boy that was scary. At first I thought it said legs.”
I thought it said “dogs”.
Ha!
re: “How vigilantism gets started.”
If we in Tejas could only weaponize fire ants ...
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