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A 'Sofa Tree' is growing up a utility pole, other sofas in abundance, debris everywhere, this delightful site has everything, plastic dolls, toxic chemicals, shopping carts. What could be better? I guess it is on a side street, and why would a City of Oakland Patrol notice this by being proactive. Oh, because there are no patrols, got it.
14 Comments
ADIは、 City of Oakland (Verified Official)
bennett (Registered User)
Thank you for robo-signing this request I am sorry that [y]our byzantine rules, that hopefully will be abolished soon, prevent you (City of Oakland) from communicating directly with your citizens. If only you could speak, but I know you cannot. They have muted you, those dumb unnecessary rules. Please fight the powers that be, and demand that they let you reach out and work with the community - things would be so much more effective if you [y]ou could talk with us.
here is my side view of the "Sofa Tree."
Singletary (Registered User)
Hey, take is easy with applying blame to the burners. This is just your standard jackA$$ dumping a bunch of crap on the street in Oakland. It is deplorable that people don't care and just dump their trash like this.
I have heard that some other cities place dumpsters for public use and this allows folks to bring the stuff they would normally dump on the street to designated dump sites. Not sure if it would help, it seems that there is no way to easily punish these jerks.
Put up fake cameras? Invest in a simple sign that states the area is being video recorded?
But that is not from burning man. It would be covered in a fine beige dust if it was. So please don't assume this is burning man stuff. In general, burners are better than that. They just re-donate the couches to goodwill after they are done with them
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FedUp (Registered User)
bennett (Registered User)
Eileen (Registered User)
bennett (Registered User)
FedUp (Registered User)
There's a reason you see these perpetual piles of debris and garbage in Oakland and not in the surrounding communities, like Berkeley and San Leandro. It's become pretty obvious to everyone that Oakland has no time or resources to devote to enforcing anti-dumping laws, or property crime in general. If you catch someone in the act, and try calling it in to the cops, you just hang on the line forever. If you find personally identifiable mail in the material that's dumped, they just shrug. Has anyone been prosecuted for illegal dumping in the last few years? Nothing ever seems to happen to the perpetrators, so they keep on perpetrating.
If there were a serious effort to catch these people that got on the news, with investigators detailed to identify and arrest the dumpers, so you saw people in handcuffs next to the piles of junk they dumped, it would stop in a hurry.
City of Oakland (Verified Official)
bennett (Registered User)
Thank your for your Robo-sign - why don't you post the actual link for the alleged existing incident report - That number is not in the system See Click Fix; and the number refers to a matter in Chicago if I modify the URL.
Is that an excuse for not doing the clean up?
BETTER YET - why don't you come down and handle the matter, as it is growing daily - fortunately it is not next to a building, so it is unlikely to catch fire like the Garbage Boat and campier did on Stone.
IF - [y]ou are incapable of cleaning up these chronic messes (as seems the pattern of conduct in our business area), or developing more efficient, economical and logical clean up methods ( e.g. crews pick up a pile while they drive by another obvious pile, ignoring it as SOP), then PLEASE make a statement to that effect so we can compel a legislative change that would provide the resources you need to do this work.
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bennett (Registered User)
Eileen (Registered User)
bennett (Registered User)