Posted on 04/13/2025 3:54:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
Of all the one-party blue city disasters, Oakland is probably the biggest, a once-storied city full of beautiful old houses and a really great Chinatown, and is now farthest down the road to becoming Detroit.
After all, when you're the only city to lose In-N-Out Burger and your airport hotels based on unenforced crime, the only city whose major league baseball team insists on playing in some other city, and the only big city whose mayor is under indictment for corruption up the wazoo, you know the city's got problems. Gangs, illegals (Oakland is a sanctuary city), drug dealers, and smash-and-grab gangs all flourish in Oakland, along with a lot of murderers and muggers. The cops, considered bad guys by the recently recalled Soros district attorney, don't enforce much.
Someone wants to clean up the city, though, and has come up with the perfect tone-deaf leftist solution: Fining the victims.
According to ABC 7 News:
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- In Oakland, Chinatown merchants are raising the alarm after many are being hit with thousands of dollars in fines for graffiti on their properties.
Shirley Lou knows how this story goes. On any given day, the supermarket she manages is tagged. They paint over it and then it happens again.
"We cannot control. We clean up and they come again. So many times, but the city -- I don't know why they are charging me money," said Luo, manager at Won Kee Supermarket.
On Tuesday, she tried to pay the latest fine of $500. The city told Luo she owes $3,000, which includes late fees.
"It's not my fault. Not our fault. It's somebody go to the roof and mark so many graffiti," Luo said.
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lmao... man ya cant make this sh*t up...
Girl get out of there. Move to Texas, or come to the Midwest.
I didn’t vote for that. But somebody did.
What's next? Fining Tesla owners for letting their cars get keyed or set on fire?
Paint works better?
“We cannot control. We clean up and they come again. So many times, but the city — I don’t know why they are charging me money,” said Luo,
Dear Ms Luo, you ain’t black honey, therefore, you must pay for their sins.
It’s the American Urban Person of Dusky Heritage way, assisted by Communists of all colors. They do the crime, you get the fine.
One might see the need for street gang protection rackets since the cops can’t or won’t do anything. At least with a gang if you pay them they’ll take care of you.
** Why do Mediterranean climates have the most graffiti? **
Give you an answer if the graffiti is in arabic,
wondering if the billing for a graffiti fine can be forwarded to the local P.D. since its it’s ultimately their responsibility to prevent defacement of property.
And that somebody has to reap the consequences of their actions.
At all.
I had a connecting flight there in 2000 and the Airport literally stank. And the bathrooms were filthy with toilets overrunning. I don’t know how it is now but I’m never going back to find out.
Sounds like the politicians of Oakland created an extortion racket, and do not intend to "solve a graffiti problem".
California is a sick-a$$ place....not fit for flies.
It is unjust but I very much doubt that is unique to Oakland or even unusual.
What is probably unusual is the lack of effort to stop the tagging and other property crimes.
If the criminal taggers are shot and killed on site, in the act, the problem will end.
When it comes to libs, the jokes just write themselves.....LOL
Libs couldn’t properly manage their way out of a wet paper bag.
Correct.
“ Why do Mediterranean climates have the most graffiti?”
Because it is very easy for “homeless” bums to live on the streets year-round.
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