Posted on 09/14/2015 9:49:02 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
“Just because you buy the front house, doesn’t mean you own the beach,” says Tony Salaza. “The beach is for everybody.”
He gestures towards a sweep of architect-designed houses to his left.
Over the past few years, many of Malibu’s 13,000 residents have been watching with alarm as public access rights to the 27-mile coastline have come under threat.
Many celebrities and multimillionaires own sprawling Malibu homes overlooking the Pacific, including actors Robert Redford and Angelina Jolie, the rapper Dr Dre, the director Rob Reiner and media mogul David Geffen. In an effort to protect their privacy, some homeowners have now taken matters into their own hands by employing security guards to patrol the sands in front of their houses.
Twice in the past few weeks, members of the public have been asked to leave Malibu’s Escondido Beach by a uniformed security guard who wrongly claimed they were on private property and threatened them with a fine for trespassing.
That area is treated as a private riviera … the most egregious example of privatisation of public land in Los Angeles.
Of late wealthy homeowners have taken to erecting their own “No trespassing” signs and putting out traffic cones to discourage people from parking their cars. The hiring of private security guards is the newest skirmish in a long-running battle.
Noaki Schwartz of the California Coastal Commission, tested the waters herself with her six-year-old daughter and a friend. Within minutes of sitting on the sand, says Schwartz, a uniformed guard with a clipboard walked over.
“He was polite but pretty firm and said I was trespassing and needed to leave and if I didn’t leave, I would be fined $1,500 and probably get a citation for trespassing.”
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I have the impression you are posting from the basement of DailyKOS.
Oh they want their private property they just don’t want you to have yours’.
Male stars tend to be shorter than average, makes them look huskier on screen; the starlets tend to be taller than average, makes them look slimmer and younger. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but looks are more heavily weighted in the movie and TV biz.
Wait until a hundred foot tall tsunami resets their property rights.. that section of beach will undergo some long needed rodent removal.
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