Thieves targeting fire hydrants in South Los Angeles

KTLA ^ | 6-3-24 | Cameron Kiszla

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A series of fire hydrant thefts in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles has left residents without a working hydrant near their homes.

The thefts of four hydrants near the intersection of 82nd Street and Hooper Avenue mean the block doesn’t have even one operating hydrant, KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw reports.

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Too soon?

Nope.

[moovova]

Interesting.
Heretofore, the main knowledge I had on fire hydrants was the one, in our neighborhood, that my high school daughter sideswiped while driving her boyfriend’s Blazer...on her learners permit. The hydrant survived, although slightly canted to one side. The neighbor’s tree (where she came to a stop) was skinned up. The boyfriend’s truck was totaled. I split the cost of a replacement truck with her. Took her a lot of babysitting to cover.

(Original posted in wrong thread...sorry.)

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Heck, I’m an old guy and I still can’t get my computer to work properly. Fortunately for me, my nephew is coming over next week.

Good. Maybe he can get you logged on...

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Thanks!

[bobbo666]

They will be able to, but won’t.

[Organic Panic]

“She assuming the thieves are rational people.”

Speaking of thieves... My industrial complex got raided a few months ago. We NEVER had thieves here until the neighboring cities turned ‘blue.’ Now, there is a huge homeless shanty in the forest outside town. We have thousands of dollars of equipment people would just store outside and no one bothered with any of it. But some filthy thieves cut ALL the power cables off and made off with about $5 worth of copper. Basically useless because the nearest scrap yard is 100 miles away. Now, we have to spend thousands to open up the equipment and run new cables. They should be glad we didn’t catch them. There are a whole lot of holes that need filling out here...

[hanamizu]

WW2 American soldiers sending Japanese skulls home as cute souvenirs, something that actually did happen.

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No doubt it did, but it was a different time with different sensibilities. I grew up in SoCal right after the war. A playmate’s dad had an Indian skull that he found in the desert in a box in the closet. Today, it would be considered an outrage, but back then it was normal.

Guys born in the teens and twenties of the twentieth century just looked at such things differently.

Their grandkids and great grandkids are the ones who try to return such souvenirs.

[dfwgator]

A playmate’s dad had an Indian skull that he found in the desert in a box in the closet. Today, it would be considered an outrage, but back then it was normal.

Second Nazi: I mean, what do skulls make you think of? Death... cannibals... beheading... pirates...

Hans: Pirates are fun!

Second Nazi: I didn't say we weren't fun, but fun or not pirates are still the baddies.

[ansel12]

Interesting reaction, a revealing one.

[KittyKares]

The scrap price of fire hydrants is like $2.00 maybe less and the cost of a new one is $3000.00-$6000.00
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Perhaps the fire department should go to scrap yards and buy them back for $2.00 + the profit.

[Pajamajan]

Keep voting Democrat.

[KittyKares]

I didn’t realize Scrambler Bob already suggested that. Great minds think alike.