ONLY A GOLD RUSH MINING TOWN AFTER DARK’S GONNA HOLD A CANDLE TO DOWNTOWN FULLERTON. STEP RIGHT UP AND DON’T BE SHY BUT MOVE ALONG OR ELSE…
Want to catch just one more look into her eyes after dinner? Why go anywhere else? Why wait for the Vegas bullet train to roll into town? Downtown’s got it all north of the tracks after dark ladies and gentlemen. What is your forte, aggressive pan handling, street circuses, drugs for sale, pot smoking with the pungent odor of skunk bud? Maybe you have a taste for the underage with fake ID’s. How about the scantily clad?
Perhaps you can appreciate, upon disembarking your vehicle in the $30,000 taxpayer funded parking stall, the visual appeal of feces and vomit plastered to the walls that haven’t been cleaned for months all the while as you approach the elevator, the aroma of urine fills the air. You can thank the frat boys over at Cal State Fullerton for the uric acid eau de toilette, the homeboys that Amtrak brought in on the sundowner, the IE crew that heads south for the winter or the grove crowd that moves north for the evening in search of cheap thrills on higher ground. Let us not forget that in addition to all of the aforementioned, as a direct result of the Fullerton Police Department’s televised execution of Kelly Thomas, Fullerton is now a homeless sanctuary city plopped right in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard with no public restrooms or showers. Now its downtown has got people urinating, defecating, slamming heroin, smoking crack, pimpin’, vandalizing cars flanked by broken bottles, street rumbles, threats of physical harm, boxing matches not to be outdone by people pretending to be passed out on the stairs in parking structures looking up women’s skirts. These are not just my assertions folks, I have backup that begins at 2 hours and 54 minutes-http://fullerton.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=598
Last call before things get out of hand.
Oh the parking structures. Yes build it and they will come. An unsupervised oasis with a declared open season on catalytic converters and drunk hot chicks as they are left unattended and on display and for the taking. Yes the huge magnet to all scrap metal recyclers, eligible bachelors, singles, married, perverts and everyone else looking for a quick buck and a good time is aimed in all four directions and energized at maximum Gauss levels just about every night here in our hometown.
Oh the vehicle theft, vandalism, rapes, the groping, replete with people having sex in corners, doing drugs in corners, drinking in corners, minors, addicts DTF has them all. Condoms, day after pills, used condoms, needles. The homeless, the bar patrons, the out of towners, the students, the residents, the residents children, the city leaders, the city leaders children, the establishment, the establishments offspring, heck everyone is welcome. Harassment, threats of robbery, rape and molestation await. Slow, little or no response from police is what has been alleged. How did we get to this point?
Yes this is the legacy that the Fullerton Establishment has bequeathed us with the restaurant overlay district where liquor licenses were handed out by a bunch of dolts like lollipops on halloween.
We now have a 2 am Freemont street experience every night with EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR POLICE PRESENCE, ENFORCEMENT AND THE LIGHT SHOW ON THE CEILING. I guess the sights are too good inside and around the clubs for Fullerton’s finest to watch the structures where thousands of visitors return to their cars. Man if I was the police chief, I would have everyone working 24 hour shifts to include Friday and Saturday nights and place them right at the exits to SOCO and the structures so they could shoot the drunk ducks in the barrel and load them into the paddy wagons. No instead we don’t have the money, resources or staff to guard our infrastructure thanks to who?
Is that you Joe?
So Fullerton’s downtown Freemont Street Experience actually costs the city more in policing and related costs than it brings in in sales tax revenue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All roads lead to Rome or do they?
NOW ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAVE BUILT THE LIQUOR PEDDLERS A PARKING STRUCTURE WITH TAX MONEY, GIVEN AWAY A PUBLIC SIDEWALK, AND NOW WE ARE GIVING AWAY YOUR FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS INSIDE A PUBLIC PARKING STRUCTURE THAT WAS BUILT WITH YOUR TAX MONEY?
HERE IS THE LANGUAGE OF THIS TOKERS TOWN STYLE INJUNCTION, FASCIST, POLICE POWER GRAB DISASTER CRIMINALIZING LEGAL ACTIVITIES RIGHT HERE:
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/weblink8/2/doc/551387/Page1.aspx
Look at the proposed municipal code amendment 8.52.020 specifically sections B, C, and D.
Last time I checked, all of the dangerous, seedy, inappropriate activity was already illegal. What does this guy want, the wild west where anything goes if you have a gun and a badge? Let me get this straight Mr. Hughes and Mr. Felz, you have parking structures with no camera surveillance systems and virtually no police presence and zero maintenance? How long have you both been working for the city? Who is your boss?
Dan Hughes
We have residents who have repeatedly been complaining about all of the aforementioned and the cops still aren’t hauling these people away? Where has general services been if there is fecal matter and vomit caked all over these places for months? Are you kidding me? Someone call the health department on these guys.
Welcome to Fullerton and no, this is not some council candidate’s market.
Is this the classic Hegelian dielectic or is it just government business as usual where they are so lame that they can’t see the forest for the trees so when they smell smoke, they just cut the trees down?
We need to include all parking lots…
Rick Alvarez, candidate for council, in his infinite wisdom actually suggested we expand the fascist end of the first amendment portion of this ordinance to INCLUDE ALL PARKING LOTS? Aren’t you from Cuba? Did you learn anything from that place run by that cigar smoking, freekazoid moron that lost his shaving kit back when Khrushchev lost his hair?
The bygone era when students strived to reach the moon . Now they are on the road to nowhere as they moon each other while we fall off the economic cliff. Folks, Fullerton needs real leaders and not high paid lackeys that mismanage our hard earned money while they green light the evisceration of our rights along side the alcoholic destruction of our youth in the open air sewer that these so called pillars of the community built and continue to operate with our subsidies.
I will not allow you to take away my right to peaceably assemble, or smooch my hottie in the front seat just because these booze and brothel owners don’t want to hire their own version of Blackwater to patrol the pavement in these tilt ups that Hughes and Felz can’t seem to get under control with a 200 million dollar budget that can’t even spring for an outhouse and a standing army that apparently can’t read the penal code.
You want solutions? Here are the solutions. Agendize this:
Install cameras and hire a security company to patrol the lots. Hire a maintenance company to clean them nightly. Charge for parking with merchant validation. Track the parking validations and pass the cost of all of this on to the merchants by charging merchant fees commensurate with usage.
Yes-tax the businesses that use the structure-all of them. Add a surcharge on any of them with an ABC license. Public restrooms need to be strategically built downtown and yes they will need to be maintained.
Dan Hughes and Joe Felz, you have failed the residents of Fullerton. You have failed to spend our tax dollars wisely and you have failed to protect the people who pay the taxes to pay your salaries. You have have put the public in grave danger as you both have allowed things to get out of control all the while the tools at your disposal have been misused in allowing this nightmare on elm street to end up on Fullerton’s main street.
Draconian legislation granting sweeping police powers is not the answer to our problems. The answer is common sense which you both seem to clearly lack when it comes to solving this multifaceted problem. Maybe my wife and I with our friends will just go down to Anaheim for our night on the town knowing that at least some of our sales tax revenue generated in Anaheim will go to provide reverse osmosis filtered water for its residents while Fullerton pipes in halide toxicity in return for the empty beer bottles, vomit, and feces plastered all over the walls that some of you all in city hall have mistaken for some sort of a mural.
Let me and mine hang out when we are out and about, let the young and old soak in the sights on those warm summer nights and let them get their kisses goodnight. Getting the balance right can be done if the myopic and short sighted in government would just get out of the way or better yet, we can send them packing in November for the next train out of town. We shall see soon enough and 2016 will be comin’ round the mountain. Is there a solution? You bet, one way tickets for some of them right on out of that 200 million dollar a year building on Commonwealth Avenue where behind closed doors the monsters are due on Maple street.
Fullerton’s best days are still ahead so stay tuned and-don’t forget to turn off that WiFi-your grandchildren will thank you.
#1 by Baxter on September 24, 2014 - 10:21 am
1. Well done, thanks for staying on this.
2. I agree. In fact Rick Alvarez is a empty, soulless, vacuum, and every time he speaks I believe he risks actually becoming a black hole and sucking the entire room into his void, but then I remember that there is nothing up there speaking but a flabby “I <3 Fullerton PD" shirt and a pedo mustache, and how can it get worse than that? Well, Larry B may be worse actually. Just as douchey but more dangerous I'm thinking. (can we take a douchey poll between both by your readers?)
2a. I should not be so hard on Rick while things are awkward for him. After all, Rick has been wearing his blue "I <3 Fullerton PD" T-shirt to every city function for the last 2 years and I'm told he can't even recall the Tommy Bahama days, and despite this he has yet to receive the endorsement of the Police Assoc/union. That's got to hurt. Not hurt like being raped or beaten by the police you unconconditioinally love, more like the hurt one might have upon finding out our boyfriend has been playing you for the last 2 years because when you walked in on him while he was buggering your BFF. (Is posting a pic of Rick in his "I heart FPD shirt a possibility?)
3. A woman who owns a hair salon just off of Harbor in downtown complained to me about the homeless pissing in her doorway. She stated that when she opens up on Saturday morning it always smelled like urine and she had to clean the area before her clients arrived. I asked her if the doorway smelled the same when she opened up on Tuesday. She told me it was probably not as bad. Well kid, I said, the homeless need to piss everyday, the bar crowd reaches it's peak on weekends. So unless you have DNA tracking this back to a transient my guess is that urine belongs to a frat boy not someone trying to find a safe spot to lay their head down without being harassed by drunken frat boys.
4. We will always have some homeless, homeless are human, humans all share certain biological needs. I suspect that if the city of Fullerton provided a few public restrooms and some lockers (any secure place to store essential belongings), most of the things the business owners complain about would go away. Without lugging all their stuff around most homeless blend. Just another old hippie or grungy emo kid etc.
5. Pan Handling? You mean like those F*cking phone calls I used to get when I had a land line from the Police Association (i mean union, asking for donation? What's the difference between our cops asking for money and some homeless dude doing the same sans a phone? Answer: The cops are fat and the homeless are hungry and at least the homeless dude did not interrupt me while I was eating dinner.
6. I am known by manny of the homeless who spend their time in downtown, some may even know that I am I'm a bit of a soft touch, and despite this I hardly ever get asked for money directly. If some guy holding a sign, which is how most solicitations take place, makes these business owners nervous, they are wired for Irvine not Fullerton.
7. And moreover, If you wanted the foot traffic and opened up your business near the largest transportation center between LA and San Diego, a transportation center right in the middle of a historic downtown, and YOU did not account for the likelihood of both pigeons and some homeless people when drafting your business plan, you are an idiot. This is on you not on them. Stop your crying and pour me a Scotch.
In summary … this is beyond stupid and just an excuse to log more cop hours while appeasing the chamber members collectively. Thanks for waking me up on this vote, I'll be at the next council meeting.
#2 by Amy on September 24, 2014 - 2:01 pm
Well stated Bax! Glad to see you here.
#3 by Anonymous on September 24, 2014 - 7:46 pm
Alvarez is just a bobblehead
#4 by Hopper on September 25, 2014 - 9:27 am
Bax, as always, right on the money.