KFI Investigation: ‘A Crappy Day In Venice’ A Hazmat team has had to clean a sewage spill in Venice...a week after it happened. Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Last week, in the middle of the night, a resident on Pacific Avenue noticed an RV parked the wrong way in front of her home. She heard some noise, then noticed a passenger getting out of the RV, and removing the cap to the sewage tank. The woman jumped back into the RV and drove away intentionally allowing gallons of sewage to spill out onto the street.
The resident called 911 and the LAPD was able to track down the RV. The resident made a citizen’s arrest and the woman was taken into custody. Despite numerous calls and complaints, the raw sewage remained on the street for days. Finally, residents notified KFI News and I began making calls and inquiries. Finally, after 6 days, councilman Bill Rosendahl’s office requested a clean up crew to go to the area and remove the waste. I was there while the crew cleaned up the mess from Pacific Avenue.
When asked why it took a week to respond to requests for cleanup, a Rosendahl aide told me it was the first he’d heard of it. At least 7 residents confirmed a face-to-face meeting with Rosendahl last Thursday in one of his satellite offices.
On Tuesday night a resident called to tell me the city contacted her to notify her that one of the areas where RV’s typically park was declared a bio-hazard and the LAPD was evacuating RV’s.
God how I love this story. Venice, where 2bd/1ba homes went for $1,000,000.00 a year ago, is a literal shit-hole. They routinely vote left, I mean far left, and they've open their doors to the homeless and their RVs, SUVs and cars.
It's sweet watching California devolve like this.
