Venice Beach Homeless Problem Out of Control!

Haha I knew it. As soon as that NY crime thread came along that there’d be a LA one right behind it. It’s so predictable.

what a hole of shit

R1 I actually saw this story on the 11 p.m. news and thought I would post it. I wasn’t thinking about New York’s problems.

[quote] People pay top dollar to live in an area that’s overrun with crime.

Anyone who moves to Venice should probably figure out what they're getting into.

My 68-year old uncle was a rookie LAPD officer assigned to the Venice beat 45 years ago.

The way he tells it, some things haven't changed.

People are homeless because capitalism is driving the classes further apart. As Bezos's net worth becomes more abstract, more families are living in tents and being described as vermin who are making people's homes in paradise unsightly.

Caitlyn Jenner was just bitching on Fox News that a friend who shares her fucking airplane hangar left California because he didn't want to look at homeless people anymore. As a representative of the party of the working class. We're a gross country.

Can't they just turn the entire area into a gate community?

Ghetto by the sea.

The place has been a freak show for decades: human, architectural, geographical.

I can't imagine wanting to live there; I can imagine homeless people calling it their home.

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It used to be needles that you had to worry about stepping in the sand. Now it's human waste.

Human waste AND needles R10!

When I lived in LA 30 years ago Venice was a war zone. Are the homeless now just mingled in with bougie beachdwellers?

OP I’m sure that the wealthy residents appreciate you advocating on behalf of their underrepresented interests. If more people cared about the wealthy as much as you do. The United States would be a better place.

I'm sure Caitlyn will have the solution to this. 🙄

Venice always attracted the homeless . I was a 19 yo gayling fresh off the plane in 1985. My pals lived in a 20's brownstone right on the Venice boardwalk. You've seen it in countless TV shows. They paid a whopping $600 for ocean views. We use to sit on the fire escape smoke weed and watch the carnival below pass by. First morning we went to a boardwalk cafe for breakfast. I had left part of mine uneaten. A guy walked up to our table and asked me if he could have it? I was flustered. "Sure". The waiter yelled " Don't give him the plate". Later we were watching a Mexican boy chase pigeons. 'Cute" I said. 'Just watch" my friend replied with a smirk. The kid caught the bird and snapped it's neck grabbed it and ran back to his parents who thru it in a cooler. My jaw hit the floor. 'Dinner" said my friend. I realized I had lived a sheltered life.

R15 Eeeeeew! I had no idea people eat pigeons! I guess they’re more palatable than seagulls!

This is interesting timing.

I just had physical therapy and a guy on the table next to me was complaining about homeless people in DC. He said he lives in Chinatown and a homeless man now lives right outside his condo building door, and that they bother you all day downtown during work, etc.

It's true—but I feel like the problem is that they have nowhere to go. Walking home, especially around Dupont Circle, I saw about 20 tents set up on the street, which is a new phenomenon. But they don't hurt anyone and if we want them to relocate, then I'm willing to pony up money to subsidize somewhere for homeless people to live. I cannot get on board with treating human beings as vermin just because no one wants to see suffering.

I live in LA and yes the homeless are around but I've never been approached or threatened by one (and I'm not what you would call threatening). Just avoid eye contact and keep walking.

Pigeons make wonderful appetizers.

[quote] I live in LA and yes the homeless are around but I've never been approached or threatened by one (and I'm not what you would call threatening). Just avoid eye contact and keep walking.

That is unfortunately the best thing to do. It feels cold, but when you live in a city with homeless people, you learn that ignoring them keeps the peace. Eye contact and engagement is what makes people react. I don't know if it's mental illness or street code or what, but I very often see someone stop and listen and then get yelled at and look terrified. Or they stop and explain they don't have money and get yelled at and look terrified. If you just keep walking, there's no problem.

^ Au contraire mon frère.

Venice Beach is one of the biggest draws in LA for foreign tourists - obviously there's not much of that happening now, but in normal times - and it's not cheap at all to live there. You would think there would be some incentive to clean up the place instead of allowing it to deteriorate into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It has always been pretty dodgy, sure, but when fires are being set and violent lunatics are attacking people in broad daylight on the regular, it's well past time to take action.

Ugh had pigeon at an incredibly fancy restaurant in Paris years ago. Apparent,y it’s more popular in Europe. Hated it. Very gamey...

Jory Rand - haven't seen him in years but he looks delicious there in the mask.

Taste like shit?

R20 it doesn't exactly make me feel good, but I've lived in cities for 15 years and never had an altercation.

[quote] I had no idea people eat pigeons! I guess they’re more palatable than seagulls!

I wish Eddie would eat them. They're much lower in cholesterol than squirrels.

I saw Peggy Cass on a bicycle on the boardwalk at Venice Beach in 1986

I saw Mama Cass at a Venice sandwich shop in 1973.

[quote] Eeeeeew! I had no idea people eat pigeons!

When you get it at a restaurant, it's called squab and is fairly expensive.

People like this however, who show up with no plan and immediately homeless, should be given a bus ticket home and told not to come back

There homes, even with the homeless are worth more than you'll ever be OP.

The thread from R31

I saw Playtone records chairman Sol Siler at Chasen's with Suzanne Pleshette in 1964.