The Bus Bench

Apparently, The Sidewalk Is Too Narrow

I am not sure what prompted this wheelchair-bound denizen of Skid Row to take to the road, but I hafta state it was amusing to watch her jet along Spring Street ahead of the DASH as well as Metro buses while private motor vehicles zoomed by.

-BusTard

 

 

Crime is now a crime!

Los Angeles, CA- Crime has recently declared a crime by the L.A. City Council.
Criminals are asked to take their activities elsewhere, where crime is not a crime.

Suicide On The Red Line

On the way to Home Depot last Saturday, 07 June 2008, Browne and I observed the Los Angeles coroner exiting the MacArthur Park Red Line station. he was pulling off his white rubber gloves. No photographers (save us) were there, nor were any press. The L.A. Times managed a couplea grafs about it in the Sunday edition.

Photos and videos after the jump. . .

More guns at the Hayward!

Unlike the starter pistol incident in late May, I was surprised that no-one had a fit by this scene, what with the fragile folks who are re-appropriating the word "urban" yet seem mystified that an area immediately adjacent to Skid Row (and still rife with SROs, to boot) might have incidents more frustrating than dog shit on the sidewalks and having to move one's motor vehicle to avoid the fanatical meter maids.

-BusTard

What is it?

Riding the DASH down Vermont to Santa Monica amidst the olde ladies and people who have naught but time  (the glacial pace of the Hollywood DASH is remarkably aggravating), I spied something behind the seats in the rear.

 

-BusTard

Electric Chair At Pershing Square

Metro's poor planning is not always a bad thing: unprotected outlets can be found throughout the station for charging one's personal conveyances!

 

 

Mallards in the Fountain at the Central Library

Obviously the ducks in the video are accustomed to people, although I have never seen them in the small water fountains in front of the library (facing the Arco Towers on Flower).

-BusTard

 

 

 

Starter Gun Terror at The Hayward Hotel!

Although the BB Gun Boy of the Olde Bank District made his appearance nearly two weeks ago at the Hayward on 6th and Spring (across from my olde publishing office at the Valuta; it is now SB Lofts), I had to put up these photos and videos. Belated, yes, but interesting. Two people were handcuffed and  several blocks were locked down owing  to shots fired within the hotel. Riot police, the mobile LAPD station (parked on 5th and Main beneath the Rosslyn) and quite a bit of traffic congestion. (And I realise it was a starter pistol; that night, however, I heard LAPD talking about it being a BB gun, and that is what I called the suspect.)

Two nights earlier and two blocks east on 6th Street in Skid Row (which is a little less affluent than the Olde Bank District), a man was murdered. Two LAPD cars were on the scene, one short block was cordoned off, and the coroner took his sweet time getting to the body.I suppose Skid Row does not deserve a small army of LAPD when a bum gets knifed to death.

-BusTard

 

  Thursday, 22 May 2008 on 6th near San Pedro: a man knifed to death
in front of one of the missions gets this for pestering the LAPD with his untimely death.

  This was one of the suspects. 6th and Broadway.

  The road flares at 6th and Broadway.