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Some Venice, CA residents were fuming over the weekend after a report surfaced alleging that a couple of RV dwellers dumped sewage from the vehicle's septic tank into a gutter in the 3600 block of South Pacific Avenue along the community's more-tony Marina Peninsula.

According to a series of allegations in a discussion forum at the website YoVenice, a couple allegedly drove up in an RV and, as a man served as a lookout, a woman opened the septic tank and dumped sewage into a gutter that flows directly into the nearby Pacific. Photos and even a video of the remaining brown puddle were subsequently posted.

Police are said to have found the couple along with the woman's young daughter at Third and Rose avenues in the Oakwood district of Venice. The woman was reportedly arrested.

The incident was used to bolster arguments by some who believe homeless RV dwellers have increased crime and decreased the quality of life in Venice.



Now, for those of you who don't know, Venice is to Los Angeles what Berkeley is to Northern California -- populated primarily by elderly moonbats, doped-up, post-adolescent runaways, sexual predators, talentless artists and a few bodybuilders. In other words, the most nightmarish urban ladnscape imaginable.

However, Venice (like most coastal towns in America) does have a few terrific restaurants and pubs, as well as some of the finest beaches in the world, which is why I'm dismayed by this story. I know many of you wouldn't live in Southern California if your lives depended upon it, but as I've said, this is my home, so I'm kinda between a rock and a hard place here.

In any event, suffice to say that the LA County HazMat team, deployed to clean up this disgusting mess, was shocked to discover that just around the corner from where this incident occurred, sat a row of similarly dilapitated RV's, all of whom had been doing precisely the same thing.

In short, as of this morning, a four square block area of some of the priciest real estate in America has been evacuated due to the urine and excrement running in the streets. Un. ****ing. Believable.

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Proponents of the homeless, however, defend them as equal citizens who, at least, aren't living on sidewalks. They have fought back against what they see as an effort to further gentrify the community and sweep some of its longtime citizens under the carpet.

And people close to me wonder why I'm a conservative.  :bird:
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That's just grody.  And freaking irresponsible, just like tossing a cig out the car window.  Ew.
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Eww. Priciest shanty town ever.  :(



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That's just grody.  And freaking irresponsible, just like tossing a cig out the car window.  Ew.

Which, by the way, is illegal in LA County. ESPECIALLY during fire season.  :-)

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Which, by the way, is illegal in LA County. ESPECIALLY during fire season.  :-)

That was my point.   :-)
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That was my point.   :-)

I have heard this from lots of ready to retire folks that want to SEE AMERICA.

Camping with my trailer 22' with full bath, I have in the past just parked it for the summer in a vacation park.  Either a sewer hook up or a Honey Waggon to pump out the holding tank.

We meet allot of people coming and going from all over the country.
They sell or rent out their homes, buy a RV and head out to see what  is on the other side of the mountain.

With hundreds of thousands of people taking to the road each year the problem of where they can drain their sewage tanks becomes a problem.


 Large city's with a huge influx of visitors need to put in free pumping stations for their guests, The cost to do so will be a fraction of the cost to clean up the streets, cut down on raw sewage running into the gutters.

The owners of campers or RVs may decide to spend a couple of weeks or months exploring the city, they have to buy food, clothing and spend money on personal care items.   They are in no way living free on the streets.

New world out there, an ageing population that wants and can afford to See the USA.  When the camp grounds with dumping stations are full up for the year, what are they to do .?

When any size town, Hamlet or city depends on tourists to boost the economy, I can not see why that town cannot put in a dumping station for  the people that are adding to their economy.

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I have heard this from lots of ready to retire folks that want to SEE AMERICA.

New world out there, an ageing population that wants and can afford to See the USA.  When the camp grounds with dumping stations are full up for the year, what are they to do .?

When any size town, Hamlet or city depends on tourists to boost the economy, I can not see why that town cannot put in a dumping station for  the people that are adding to their economy.


Vesta, I think you're missing something here, kitten...

These people aren't travellers -- they're transients and squatters. Most have been parked in place for months at a time.

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Vesta, I think you're missing something here, kitten...

These people aren't travellers -- they're transients and squatters. Most have been parked in place for months at a time.

He's not joking, vesta--a lot of these people camp out in front of the (very) small beachfront or area homes and move only when ordered to by the police...and usually just long enough to go around the block and park again.

I've never really understood it--LAPD is responsible for that area, IIRC, but they've never really cracked down on the transients in that area.  If you go up the coast, Long Beach is kind of crappy in parts (owing to accessability to the 710 and 605 Freeways.)  Then you get into Palos Verdes, Redondo, Hermosa, and Manhattan Beaches, all of which are (for LA) quiet and nice areas.  The cops there don't seem to have a problem with kicking the transients, etc, off the beaches and off the streets.

But maybe because of accessibility, Dockweiler is a shithole, and so is Venice when you get anywhere between Washington and probably Ocean Park, then as you get into Santa Monica, it improves somewhat, then as you get into Will Rogers, it gets nice again.  Kinda like Orange County--the only "crappy" (as in overcrowded with a-holes) would be right around the Huntington Beach pier.
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Vesta, I think you're missing something here, kitten...

These people aren't travellers -- they're transients and squatters. Most have been parked in place for months at a time.

Beat me too it.   I am just now planning a trip south Vesta, did you know there are actually dump stations at rest stops on some major highways  heading down south?  

Did you know you can dump ( for a fee of course ) at the Pease sewer plant?  

Geeze Louise get with the times.  

Did you know bums let it all hang out all over Pee_town?  (of course you did if you ever been near Gilly's the morning after the night before :tongue:)

(Of course there are great stories about the habits of long haul truckers and others told by those who maintain the highways an by ways of this great nation but we won't go there.  Hint: That ain't a gallon of apple cider they are throwing out the window. :pisscontest:)



Get with the program young lady, don't make me get out of this chair!! :asssmack:

BTW Squatters? Nice word but the image that invokes, the image. :puke:
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Beat me too it.   I am just now planning a trip south Vesta, did you know there are actually dump stations at rest stops on some major highways  heading down south?  

Did you know you can dump ( for a fee of course ) at the Pease sewer plant?  

Geeze Louise get with the times.  

Did you know bums let it all hang out all over Pee_town?  (of course you did if you ever been near Gilly's the morning after the night before :tongue:)

(Of course there are great stories about the habits of long haul truckers and others told by those who maintain the highways an by ways of this great nation but we won't go there.  Hint: That ain't a gallon of apple cider they are throwing out the window. :pisscontest:)



Get with the program young lady, don't make me get out of this chair!! :asssmack:

BTW Squatters? Nice word but the image that invokes, the image. :puke:


Times have really changed ,Everything is upside down today Lovey, very odd.

  At one time if one needed to disappear they headed for the wilds.

As those idiots who were caught this week at a camp site, the escaped Convict and his girlfriend/cousin found out, they went the wrong way.


Had they gone to a big city they would just have blended into the scene, unless they did something really outrageous they could have survived in the city for years.-----


Back on subject,  the Squatters go mostly unnoticed in a city, people avert their eyes from their shacks and those that live in their cars.  Few cops have the time to question them and when they do unless the people have an arrest warrent out on them, they find most of these people are mentally ill, homeless or unable to function on their own due to some addiction.   Sure they can scoop them up [ Soylent Green comes to mind ] but then what do they do with these people.???

Take a ride from Boston to Washington DC. on Amtrack, OH MY, an eye opener as one looks out the window at the burnt out buildings that have satellite dishes and air conditioners in the windows.  Some of these abandoned factory's from the early 1900's even have gardens planted on their flat roofs.  I recognized a few chicken coops up there where at one time people raised pigeons for food.

A documentary I watched showed a thriving life style under NYC.  Sub Way System.  The squatters dragged in material to build shacks down there, found a way to tap into the electric lines, found a running sewer to use for a toilet and even a broken water pipe that people could wash their cloths and shower under.    The city came in and destroyed their homes and placed the people in small apartments with hot water, and a kitchen.

They got food stamps and welfare, were they content.??  Hell NO most of the people were not happy as they were bored and had no reason to get up in the morning.  80 % of the people just walked off and found another space under the city to set up shop.

We have a multimillion dollar homeless shelter about 5 miles of me, at one time the police asked them to let them know about their new residents as they kept finding sex abusers living next to a family with kids.      The shelter threw a shit fit, and refused to turn any information over to the police.    ----IMO I think they need to keep the beds full in order to show a need for donations---

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Here ya go Vesta

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BTW I agree 1000% with you on CrossRoads*.  If you build it they will come.

*Homless shelter brought to you ( or bought for you) by guilty white liberals ( akaTrustifarians) who would walk around a bum in Market Square then call the cops to haul his corpse away.  Truth is bobo the hobo would be given the bum's rush here so quick it would make her head swim.

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