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| Los Angeles to shut off water, power of nonessential businesses that refuse to close amid coronavirus | |
| 2020-05-16 | |
Getting closer to open conflict
"We won’t tolerate the selfish behavior of a few who unnecessarily put our community at risk," Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a press release on his website. He also said his "Safer at Home" emergency shelter-in-place order would be strictly enforced. Los Angeles authorities could shut down water and power to nonessential businesses that refuse to close amid the coronavirus outbreak there, according to local reports. "We won’t tolerate the selfish behavior of a few who unnecessarily put our community at risk," Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a press release on his website. He also said his "Safer at Home" emergency shelter-in-place order would be strictly enforced. The order requires LA residents to stay at home except for in a number of situations, including to get food, health or medical necessities -- as well as to care for children or adult relatives, friends and people with disabilities, according to the mayor's office. Nonessential businesses include bars, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys, salons and gyms. But nonessential businesses that remain open despite the order are "irresponsible and selfish," Garcetti said during his daily press briefing on Tuesday, according to KTLA. To enforce the shutdowns, the mayor announced a program to send city workers and volunteers, dubbed "business ambassadors," to check on defiant businesses and urge them to close down voluntarily. If they don't, the ambassadors will report the situation to prosecutors and police, according to the mayor's website, which also provided a link for the general public to report noncompliance. Businesses that ignore warnings from authorities could then have their utilities cut off, the Los Angeles Times reported. "In the strongest possible terms, I urge that Angelenos adhere to the ‘Safer at Home' order, and nonessential businesses shut their doors," City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a press release from the mayor's office. Los Angeles County has seen at least 13 deaths and 799 cases of coronavirus, health authorities there said Wednesday. That's out of at least 2,660 cases and 58 deaths reported across California. | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #17 This sounds like the plot to Escape from LA. Lemme know when Snake Plissken shows up in the second act. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-05-16 23:15 |
| #16 It's apocryphally reported Stalin was given warfarin. Proof that rat poison kills rats. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-16 18:30 |
| #15 Be a shame if power and water were cut to city offices.....and the sewers backed up. And someone nailed the doors shut. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-05-16 17:59 |
| #14 just tell them your business is working as an 'advocate' for 'undocumented' immigrants |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-16 17:22 |
| #13 An unused building with no electricity for climate control quickly becomes a vermin nest. Cases of typhus, TB and even the plague have spiked in LA. Not to worry, though: Pomade Boy and the California tort lawyers will make sure that environmental restrictions do not hinder rat extermination efforts - oh wait... from the above link: The mix of conditions that have caused alarm is, so far, unique to California, though progressive environmental philosophy may extend its reach. The reason is the state’s growing discomfort with modern chemistry paired with the California trial bar’s love of industrial chemical dollars, in this case, second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs). For the past five years, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks has forgone the use of SGARs, acting on proposed restrictions from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Lawmakers in Sacramento have proposed banning SGARs entirely, making it even more difficult to cull California’s burgeoning disease-borne rodent population. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-16 14:18 |
| #11 An important distinction, as it is still legal to remove rats from property. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-16 13:48 |
| #10 But TESLA is in Alameda county. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-16 13:37 |
| #9 An unused building with no electricity for climate control quickly becomes a homeless shelter |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-16 13:34 |
| #8 I believe that you can still buy water in bottles too. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-05-16 12:00 |
| #7 Been threatening this for a couple months now. Never did hear if they followed through. Fly flysnail junkie blowing his unemployment on blow, "Nah, can't turn off his utilities." Politicians and entertainment looking remarkably well for supposedly doing their own hair using a mirror for two months, salon be like, "Must be essential." "No dice mate, you're not in the club so you get the club." An unused building with no electricity for climate control quickly becomes a vermin nest. Add those damages and potential for disease into the suit. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-16 10:43 |
| #6 Er... the piece is from March 25. I don't recall any pushback at the time or since in LA County - all the pushback happened in Orange and San Diego counties IIRC |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-16 08:36 |
| #5 I could see a lot of businesses spontaneously combust. Too bad water for the sprinkler system was shut off. Mucho liability for the city. |
| Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-05-16 08:34 |
| #4 Are there likely to be localized hard pushbacks against these blue state and city autocrats? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-05-16 08:30 |
| #3 close down voluntarily. If they don't, the ambassadors will report the situation to prosecutors and police, Agree with me voluntarily or I'll get the guys with guns to shoot you. You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-05-16 07:52 |
| #2 Funny how these statist pukes like to use the word "selfish". Well, punk, maybe it's you and your fellow totalitarians who are selfish. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-16 07:08 |
| #1 At the point where this occurs the property owner should petition for an assessment of $0 on the basis that without utilities the property is worthless. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-16 06:26 |