Sunday, May 26, 2019

Los Angeles government more concerned about global warming tomorrow than typhus today.



There’s a trash and rodent nightmare in downtown L.A., with plenty of blame to go around
Large amounts of trash are piled up on Crocker Street, south of 8th Street, in the skid row section of downtown Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
The trash trucks arrived early Wednesday afternoon, and members of the cleanup team from the Los Angeles sanitation division came with protective coveralls and white masks.
A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash awaited them, stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped their heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole, then scampered for cover as a tractor with a scoop lurched toward them.
Two homeless people, who live in tents pitched alongside the trash, watched the proceedings with a look of weary surrender.

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