When Schwartz refused, the guard called two police officers from the local sheriff’s department. Despite handing over her business card and a map which highlighted the relevant access areas, the three of them were forced to leave.
“I found it a bit unnerving,” Schwartz says. “I was just a mom with a six-year-old on the beach. I didn’t even have a towel. I was sitting there with my purse. We should have been fine. Honestly, I don’t think people should have to walk around with legal documents to show they can be on a public beach.”
According to Price, the problem stems from the City of Malibu’s disinclination to stand up to homeowners.
Geffen’s mansion is notorious locally for having a set of fake garage doors painted on to a patch of wall adjoining the road. When Aaron Crow, a 42-year-old software engineer, parked his car in this spot last month, he was given a $53 ticket for obstructing access – despite there being no official parking restrictions in place and, ultimately, no garage in place for which access was required. He is now contesting the ticket.
It would be annoying to have all those people walking along your back yard and who knows if some mad person would kill them by using the back door into your home easily. That is what happened to that one girl “some sam show or something”. Killed on the spot. I think there should be some sort of negotiation like they can go to the beach during day light hours only.
Not to worry — according to these same brilliant, intellectual celebrities, sea level rise caused by global warming will soon wipe out their houses anyway.
Not that great a beach. Think I’ll take boogie boarding at Manhattan Beach over this place any day.
A core belief of liberals: Freedom for me, but not for thee.
As a side note, I once read an article in an outdoors magazine written by a British fisherman. One thing he said that we Yanks did right was reserve so many rivers, streams, beaches, etc. for the public use.
So you can’t buy those beaches. They are not for sale. But I guess you can get the same results by pretending to own them.
They are all hypocrites, but Redford is particularly loathsome. His entire environmental activism can be summed up as “let me build a mansion in the middle of a beautiful area and then keep everyone else from building there or being there so I can enjoy myself.” And espouse it in the most arrogant, self-righteous way possible.
Everywhere I know about on the West Coast (WA, OR, CA), the rule is that if you can access a navigable waterway by legal means, the shore is public property up to the annual high water mark.
That means if you can land a boat there, have a picnic! It’s MY PROPERTY, as it is public property.
I’ve waded many a river. You put in at the publicly owned bridge, and walk down below the high water mark wherever you want to go.
The rule gets a little gray when you get to really small creeks. Those are often not navigable, and therefore are actually owned and may be posted against trespassers.
Anyone have information to the contrary?
Not sure how it works in Malibu. I once new a guy who owned a house on the beach there, he claimed the beach was private and it was posted as such. There was no public parking around there so little issue “trespassing”.
Here in Wa state the water front homes own the beach and tide land. Local Indian tribes have a right to pass but that’s it and in 20 years I’ve never seen it happen.
These rich liberals have no problem putting terrorist in your back yard....
The city government has tried to force homeowners to “donate” strips of land by refusing to give permits for home improvements. (new kitchen etc)
it was ruled a taking by regulation.
The city should just buy a house when it comes up for sale.
Redford - a Communist
Jolie - a psycho
Dr. Dre - a thug
Reiner - another Communist
Geffen - a fag
Nice bunch of degenerates.
Those elites really do think they own the whole beach, don’t they?
When it comes to waterfront property-let the buyer beware-and read the small print. I live in a remote rural area-it is 20 miles to the nearest town, which has less than 900 people. The back of the properties on this side of the road are along the riverbank-and there are tourists all over the place in summer, crashing small boats and jet skis into the rocks on rapids, having drunken parties on the riverbank, and occasionally drowning in the river after some foolish stunt.
I love the area I live in, but it is redneck and trashy-downriver there are big, fancy houses, but since the river and bank are PUBLIC property, those fancy people put up with the same noise and nonsense that we peasants do. The people who live in those ritzy enclaves have whined, complained to the county, called sheriff’s deputies, etc many times over the years-a couple of them fenced off the riverbank and put up no trespassing signs-both were taken down by one of the game wardens within 48 hours-and the property owners fined for obstructing access to a public place.
If someone doesn’t like having public access next to their property, don’t buy on a body of water that belongs to everyone...
“Meathead” has discovered the concept of private property?
Chalk up another sign of the Second Coming!
In California it is my understanding that “private” property extend only to the “mean high tide” line, and that the rest going seaward is “public,” owned by the state in most cases.
Fixed.
As you walk north, you have sharks to the left of you and billionaires to the right of you.