April 23, 2024 • 32 mins
KFI's Blake Troli talks about a suspect being arrested in connection to the the woman who was stabbed on a Metro Train near the Universal City Station. The Supreme Court hearing a Case that could Change how Los Angeles and California Deal with Homeless Encampments. San Francisco Real Estate Prices fall. San Francisco Million Dollar Public Toilet. 70 Year old Uber Driver is Attacked.
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feel whatever's going on in the world. Eight seven seven
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moist eighty six. Horrific horrific story that we covered some
yesterday and now we know who the perpetrator is. Yesterday
five in the morning at a metro stop at the
Studio City on Lancasham, a woman was stabbed in the
throat and she was stabbed so viciously that she died.
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There was a tremendous loss of blood. Nobody even wanted
to go nearer there was so much blood coming out
of her. Well, they got the guy, so the police say.
And Blake Trolley is with us from KFI News to
give us more detail.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Lake, Yeah, John, So we're learning more about the guy
accused of violently stabbing that woman on that metro train yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But we're also learning more about the crime.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know, yesterday, the way they described this attack was unprovokeable.
Now it appears that Elliott Nawden, who is homeless, stabbed
this woman several times, including in the throat, because he
was stealing her purse while she was on her way
home from work. We're told that she got on the
train from North Hollywood and she was heading towards downtown LA.
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And if you remember from yesterday, police had said that
this happened sometime between the last stop and that Universal
City station.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And he attacked her.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She was bleeding, as you said, so profusely that other
people at the platform. She got off the train, so
did he. And you can only imagine the struggle, this
struggle this poor woman was going through getting off this
train and people it's so gory. People don't even want
to come close and help her out. And now, yes,
we are learning that Elliott Nawden does have a criminal pass,
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specifically with the rail system. In twenty nineteen, he was
charged with attacking a passenger in La He spent five
days in jail, but he was ordered to stay away
from trains for three years.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That was part of his probation. And if he didn't, well,
who's even.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Gonna be there to know whether or not he got
on one of these these trains or not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One of the ambassadors is gonna stop it, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon in battery. He was sentenced to
four years in prison. He paroled to state hospital in
March at twenty twenty two. He was released on parole
supervision in August at twenty twenty two and discharge in
March of last year. This is some great reporting done
by the La Times at NBC, just really digging up
this guy's this guy's pass I was calling my sources
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this morning, really trying to get a picture of what
this guy had done. Now, he was arrested most recently
for trespassing earlier this year, so he does have a
mark on his name. Just back to January. Nothing too
serious there, but you know, with this past, you might
think they might throw him back in jail.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah. Did you say he was in a hospital state hospital?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, he was in a state hospital in March of
twenty twenty two, and related to the least in twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Related to the crime that he was convicted of.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, so this stems from that assault with a deadly
weapon and battery. So he was sentenced to four years
in prison. But he was the role to the state hospital.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For that was that was interesting. It's like, why did
they send me to the state hospital. Obviously they thought
he was he was out of his mind, so why
did they re release him in twenty twenty three?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Like always, hear a lot about capacity, and you have
to wonder if this is a capacity issue with the
state hospitals. I mean, that was the first question that
I had. This is something that we've heard law enforcement
officials talk about, is that we need to up that
capacity at these state hospitals because we have people like this.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They get released back out.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Onto the streets. This guy's homeless, here he is he
ends up on a train here in LA and this
poor woman is murdered just trying to come home from work.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He's forty five years old, and he's homeless, and he's
been in a state hospital, and he's been convicted of
violent crimes and he's out in the middle of the
night on one of the metro trains. I mean, that
just shouldn't happen. This is a guy who deserved to
be locked up for a long time. And I'm dying
to know, like all the details of what happened after
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we got sentenced five years ago, and why they transferred
him to the hospital, and why they led him out,
and what they thought his condition was at the age
of forty five, because obviously that has something to do
with this vicious attack. That kind of attack is insanity.
That's not a normal mugging.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, I'll tell you, John, It's really frustrating, just from
a reporter's standpoint of how hard it is to really
get the information on people who are accused of these
heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Do they No, they do not know.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's very hard to get answers on this stuff. It's
very hard to get straight answers on this And you know,
unless you have a relationship with somebody on the inside
giving you some of this information.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's hard to get it. Out there.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So there's been some great reporting on this, but again
even with that, it's still limited in scope right as
to what really leaks out as to what exactly happened
and how he ended up back on this train where
now we have this woman killed. I do want to
point this out. I saw a stout reported John that
violent crime on transit overall is down forty one percent,
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but to the same tune, homicides are up, and these
freak accidents will make people feel unsafe. Homicides on the
Metro system. They were none in twenty nineteen, there were
three and twenty twenty five, even twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty two, and six in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Now we were.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Told that officers, so this is legitimate law enforcement officers
do ride the system and target their focus where there
are issues. But you know, this is a prime example.
We were told yesterday there was not an officer on
this train. There was security on the platform, but there
was not an officer on this train. And just about
everybody I spoke with yesterday said that they wanted to
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see more of an actual law enforcement armed law enforcement
presence on this train.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And I wanted to play this for you. John.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We spoke to that high school student yesterday. Do you
remember her, Yes, I do, and she was criticizing the
ambassadors and she was saying she wants to see more
actual armed security. So here's some more of her remarks
from yesterday. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's really sad. But I always feel very like scared
to ride the train in the first place. But I
can't really say I'm surprised. I mean, they have all
the Metro ambassadors always on their phone or you know,
just doing whatever, like talking or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean, I've seen a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I mean, I wouldn't have expected that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Though you're saying the communy made about the Metro Ambassadors,
you don't think they're helping very much for safety.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No, I've seen Metro ambassadors like talking on the phone
while like a homeless man spot on an elderly couple
and they were on the opposite side of the train
and they did nothing. They just stood over there. But
I'm not sure if they're like allowed to intervene. But
I've never seen any intervention by them.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's a fake program. It's a scam program.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The ambassadors are probably scrolling or they're playing a game.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and fairness Metro does not try to say that
they are an alternative to armed security, But that said,
people want to see more of that armed security. Just
about everybody we spoke with yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The problem is people getting stabbed to death or assaulted.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't know what problem the ambassadors are solving, but
the real issue is the passengers getting getting attacked. I'm
just looking through the news stories about this not in character.
So he spends four years in prison for assaulting somebody
on him with a deadly weapon, and he did that
after probation for attacking a train passenger, and then he
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gets arrested several more times after he's out of prison,
after he's out of the state hospital. In fact, in
February twenty twenty four, he got arrested for assault at
this same Redline station.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So it's the same.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Guy over and over with a whole string of arrests
and assaults on trains. I don't know why this guy
isn't blacklisted from ever getting near a train.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I think the question is, even if he was,
who would be there to really stop him from getting
on the system.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I know, I mean, there's got to be There's got
to be some permanent solution for someone like this, because
now look what we have or what is everyone going
to offer the woman interface or the woman's family thoughts
and prayers.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Do you remember when we covered that story about them
playing the music at that station in MacArthur Park, Yeah,
keep the crazies out of the train station. Well, that day,
I remember really feeling bad for everybody that I saw
that had to use the system, because I truly was like, Wow,
this is how everybody here has to get to work.
This is a necessity for them to make a living.
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They have to ride this system. And now we're hearing
that this woman was also on our way home from work,
and it just speaks volumes to what a lot of
people are going through here in La, just trying to
get by.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
The fools who run Metro.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Their idea of a law enforcement response is have ambassadors
scrolling on their phone and playing obnoxious music on the intercom.
I mean, that's their idea of a crime fighting strategy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's just terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All right, Well, I want to keep on this story
and find out who this woman is too. That's just Blake,
very good, Thank you for coming on. All right, thanks, John, Well,
we'll do we'll do more. Also, we're gonna give away
one thousand dollars. And this homeless case before the Supreme
Court has put Gavin Newsom and Tom McClintock on the
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same side.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We'll explain coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
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Speaker 1 (10:18):
I want to tell you you probably went through this
yesterday a couple of times, and actually we've been talking
about it for quite a while. This Supreme Court case
could really change dramatically city and town's abilities in California
to clean up homeless encampments because they claim, and I
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emphasize claim that their hands are tied when it comes
to cleaning up homeless encampments unless they have enough shelter space.
That was the Supreme Court ruling is that you can't
criminalize and think people in encampments with either criminal or
civil penalties unless you have a place to put them,
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you know, on some other requirements.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But obviously it's a stupid decision.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No other appeals court in the nation, in any other
district had this promoted this concept, just the Ninth Circuit,
and everybody hates it. Both Democrats and Republicans and normal
people people who are not political, like most people are
not political. They just want a decent living environment. But
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it has brought together Gavin Newsom along with people like
Tom McClintock, the congressman in Northern California, Kevin Kylie also
from Northern California as a congressman, and he's constantly ragging
on Newsom, but they both supported actually had they had
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a Friend of the Court briefs that they that they
had submitted in their names, and they used They had
the same reason too, that the Court has usurp the
policy making authority of local municipalities. You know, I admire
the justices who say, you know what, this is up
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to the cities and towns to decide what to do.
It is not up to judges to set policy on
how to clean encampments, which is what a lot of
Supreme Court justice is indicated is their stance. It's like,
why are you coming to us, Why do we have
to decide how to do this? Well, it's because of bogus,
a bogus decision by the Ninth Circuit saying this is
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a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If there's any criminal or civil penalties.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But ultimately there has to be because if you violate
the law repeatedly, if you don't follow a police order repeatedly,
then yeah, there's got to be a penalty. I mean
without Without a penalty, there's no coercion. Without coercion, they're
never going to leave. Here's a quick overview from CBS
News reporter Tina Patel on how this case is going
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to change in California's day to day dealing with encampment.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Play cut number three here, Tina pateel EMU is under attack?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
What do we do when homelessness is under attack?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Many of the people taking part in the rally today
are part of the nonprofit group LA Community Action Network.
They work with the local unhoused population and say, as
it is, people on the streets are often treated as criminals.
They're worried that could become even more of a problem
when the Supreme Court rules on the case currently before them,
the argument that it's a biological necessity to sleep outside.
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Early this morning, people gathered outside the Federal Courthouse in
downtown LA to listen to the Supreme Court arguments. The
justices are looking into whether an anti camping ordinance that
the small city of Grands Pass, Oregon, tried to pass
is constitutional or not. Officials in Oregon and here in
California say they need to be able to pass and
enforce laws to address the growing holessness crisis, but activists
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say people on the streets should not be punished.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I pray for their hearts and their minds to open
up to receive the vibrations from the people here down
on this level, because they are so far separated from
the truth and reality that I'm not I'm not sure
if they have the capacity to make a decision that's
gonna actually benefit the people.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Stop, stop the thing there. I wanted to get to her.
Did you notice what her name was? Queen Sheba Khalifia.
This is who CBS puts as the uh as the
expert on homelessness on this Supreme Court decision. Who do
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we turn to here is Queen Sheba Khalifia, who used
to be a homeless person. She used to be a vagrant.
Now she's a pundit and listen to her analysis again.
I don't know if you caught that she goes. I
pray for their hearts and minds to open up to
receive the vibrations from the people here down on this level,
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the vibrations like the homeless guy who stabbed that woman
in the throat to death on the metro line, his vibrations.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're treated like.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Criminals because they can make crimes all day long, all
day and night, misdemeanors by the hundreds, every single one
of them, and creates just a disgusting environment.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's why they're treated like criminals.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And by the way, I'm done with with with activists
and protesters, who I presume now are paid professionals. Their chants,
their rhymes, their stupid megaphones, they're there, there, there, their
marches there. I'm just fed up with them. Whether it's
for the hamas terras they're supporting, are homeless people who
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don't want to get off the drug.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All all the climate change people block and trail all
of them. Sick of all of them. They represent a tiny,
tiny fringe. Their issues are mostly absurd, and some of
them are dangerous and constantly being covered and constantly and
everybody's afraid to do something. They all need to get
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the firehouses.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
What they need.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
A sixty Codway is coming up after after four o'clock
and he'll have one thousand dollars to give away next
hour two. I can't get enough of reading stories about
how San Francisco's progressive politicians have destroyed the city with
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their stupid policies. I mean, it's it's difficult to believe
that they were allowing it to crumble before their and
they will not change course. Some of the people are
trying to change course, and they've had recall movements and
they're trying to vote for different candidates, but the ones
who are still in power they won't budge. And now
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finally it looks like the whole real estate market is crashing. Yeah,
it hit a tipping point. You're not gonna believe what
I'm going to tell you. San Francisco's housing market is
in free fall. There's something called the San Francisco four
Seasons residential That sounds like a nice place, doesn't it
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anything with four seasons in the name. Well, in twenty twenty,
you would have to pay nearly ten million dollars for
the Peedhouse at San Francisco four seasons residential ten million.
Now it's up for sale at three point seventy five million,
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sixty two sent mark down. Say, I can't sell it
for ten million or nine or eight or seven or
six or five or four. It's three point seven five million,
five bedroom home on Fourth Avenue. Less than a year
ago it sold for one point six Well, that person
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couldn't last a year, and now they're dumping it at
one point one. They're taking a one third loss. A
two bedroom condo on Market Street, which sold in twenty
nineteen for one point two million, sold this month for
six hundred and seventy five thousand.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
I lived in the Bay Area many many years ago,
and I lived in the East Bay, but I would
go to San Francisco a lot, and it was so
unaffordable and so desirable at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, I mean, the most expensive real estate market in
the country.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Frazy it was.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And now this is this is fifty to seventy five
percent off. Here's a here's a home that overlooks the
Golden gate Bridge ocean front views. It was it hasn't
sold in thirty five years. Whoever got this home has
been there for thirty five years.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Yeah, with those views.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They put it up on the market for almost thirteen million.
Last March they're selling it for seven point eight million.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
John, you need to go buy that, you know, hold
on to it until things turn out.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, this is the time, this seriously, this is
the time to invest. You're never going to get sixty
percent off on a on a San Francisco penhapany because this.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Is not sustainable.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
The city has got to turn around somehow, some way, someday,
and then people.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are going to be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I mean, you've got to get rid of the leadership
in San Francisco. Look what they're They're destroying so much wealth.
Now Here is the Kapper. There is a building on
Market Street, nine ninety five Market Street. Somebody spent sixty
two million dollars. I guess a company, right, Yeah, it's
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a commercial building, sixty two million dollars. Last week someone
bought it at auction for six million.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Oh my god, are you serious?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Ninety percent discount from sixty two million to six million
in just six years. There's the Craig Ackerman is quoted.
He's a real estate guy in San Francisco. He's been
there for decades, and he said, it's it's He said,
the continued mismanagement is going to continue unless drastic changes
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are made in lead leadership.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He said.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He said the current administration is into liberal grand standing
over pragmatic solutions. And he says, I do think San
Francisco probably has another five to eight years of mismanagement
comping coming. Things are a mess out here and they
don't need to be. This could all be changed by
the stroke of a pen, but the mayor they chose
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this ridiculousness. I don't think it's going to change. They're
happy waving their liberal flags and looking for a fantasy
land that doesn't exist. It'll kill you on the way there.
And that's what's Craig Ackerman says, and he's right, it's
all their horrific policies has brought huge amounts of crime,
huge numbers of vagrants, just a sense of lawlessness and danger.
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Not to mention the open air insane asylums, the open
air drug markets that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Go on for blocks and blocks and blocks and thousands
show up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Remember when they had in the Tenderloin district, they had
some kind of what was it a needle exchange program?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No that's bad enough. But this was free drugs they
were offering in a safe space, in a safe space, yes,
that's what it was. And they got thousands.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But they said no, no, no, we'll attract lots of
drug addicts here, but we'll counsel them and get him
into treatment. Seventeen thousand drug addicts showed up in the
Tenderloin district. I'm not making this up. Seventeen thousand. You
know how how many people they got helped for won?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
And they shut down the program, didn't They just have
this big celebration about you know that very expensive toilet.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yes, the one point seven million dollars.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
So I'm humong his grand opening celebration. It was either
today or yes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They finally had it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, because I just read a story a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Maybe it was because they were going to open it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Trying to explain why this happened, almost defending it, like
you don't understand because of the way the city rules are,
and you know, the permits and the requirements and the
wages you have to pay and this and that. It's
like it has to be one point seven million. It's like,
shut up, get out of here. The toilet's one point
seven million, even the condos at sixty percent discount.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
More than that. All right, we've got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (23:09):
Devor mentioned the one point seven million dollar toilet which
became famous in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They did have a ceremony finally debuting the toilet, except
they they scrapped that entire project. They were they were
going to do it, and there was so much worldwide
outcry over spending one point seven million on a toilet.
It's in the Noah Valley or no Valley neighborhood in
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San Francisco. One hundred people showed up at the town
square Noi Valley. It's calf uh and and uh, the
event organizer said, Neu Valley, let's hear it for our
not one point seven million dollar bathroom. They had a
live jazz band and he's whoever was m seeing this.
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The event organizer, Leslie Crawford said, we when everybody laughs
at you, you've got to take the power back and
laugh at yourself. What they did is they did a
deal with a private company that ended up donating a
prefabricated bathroom. It's I assume it's like those trailers that
you see at public outdoor events, and they're kind of nice.
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And what there was a prefabricated modular unit, and the
donation and the labor brought the costs down to seven
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Park officials used three
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hundred thousand dollars of grant money to bring it down further,
so they ended up spending a few hundred thousand total
instead of one point seven million. But that should have
been the original idea, is to get those prefabricated modular
toilet buildings. There's a why did they go for the
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one point seven and then and then defend it and
come up with a whole bunch of nutty excuses, I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Then the whole this thing is how come it had
to become an international story where everybody is laughing and
mocking you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Why? Why isn't it obvious like the first time?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Well, first of all, somebody had to type up the
one point seven million dollar proposal, right, so just explain
to me, like in a private company, nobody would do that.
Let's say a private company was building a toilet at
one of their locations, one of their properties. If you're
the guy who walks in to an executive's office, say I,
you know, I got a great design here, I got
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a great bed. It's gonna be one point seven million
dollars for a toilet. That's that's the last time you'll
walk into the office. You'll be tossed out on your
ass in the street. But then somebody on the other
side of the desk said, well, that's pretty good. Yeah,
let me send this down down the line, because you know,
in government, you've got to have multiple departments and multiple
executives signing off, and everybody looks like, yeah, it's reasonable, yeah,
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one point seven million for toward sure. Absolutely, So it's
it's group think. Everybody in the chain of commanded, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the only thing that killed it was the publicity
with if there is some magical way you could avoid
all the publicity would have been built for that price,
and nobody questions it. Nobody says not, come on, could
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we get it down to one point two one point
one even now? I mean, we all have toilets in
our homes. You might have three or four or five.
We don't have people do not have two million dollars
worth of Wait a second, it would be ten million
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dollars worth of toilets in their homes. Yes, right, you
had like a four bedroom house and maybe five bathrooms.
All those bathrooms are ten million dollars And that's with
showers and bathtubs and sinks in the whole bit. Right,
that's just crazy. There's one more story. There's a seventy
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year old uber driver named Peter McNulty. He lives in
the Annealope Valley. He comes to La on the weekends
because there's a little more writers. And he showed up
late Saturday night, about twelve forty five am Sunday actually,
and he picks up a guy on Lancersham Boulevard who
is adamant about the address he was going to and
he had to be there quickly. And when they arrived
(27:51):
at the corner of lebre at Hollywood at one in
the morning, McNulty told the man, hey, we've reached the stop.
And he says, no, no, I have to go to
this address. And I said, no, this is where we are,
this is the address. And they had a five minute argument,
and then he sat there and stared at his phone.
So McNulty put his car in park, shut the engine off,
left the vehicle to let the passenger out, like open
(28:12):
the passenger door, and said you got to get out
now it was late and I have someone else.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
To pick up.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And the guy jumped out of the car and started
swinging at him, and they ended up on the ground
rolling around for about five minutes. So he got that
crap beat out of him. There's a photo of him
with his face all blighted up and bruised. When I
was a kid, I wanted to be a taxi driver.
I did, But then I grew up and realized this
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is what you pick up.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
How old a kid were you when you wanted to
be a cab driver? Twenty seven? Well, I got the
memo late.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Still a dream, actually, yeah, I think it's genetic. My
dad grew up in Poland his dream was to be
a bus driver. Really was then World War Two got
in away. But when I was a kid, I thought
it'd be the greatest thing in I've around all day. Yeah,
you meet people, Yeah, because I love driving, so I
thought i'd get I'd get to see the world through
a taxi.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Now it's dangerous.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
No, this is what happens by the way, three D
house of low level dreams in your family?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, yeah, you know immigrant family. Like a dream is
the lottery. What did you want to be like?
Speaker 10 (29:21):
You owned the Lakers his dad it was a show
business legend.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
But I think I think an occupation is a driving
a cab.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I don't know if a dream. Did you have some?
That's a fair point.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Did you have a like a weird that'd be a
cool job. I wanted to be an inventor. Oh yeah,
did you invent anything? Couldn't come up with.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
An invented ways to screw around?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Do you have any desires? I always wanted to be
a broadcaster. I really did, from very very early age.
I really did. No, I always wanted to be in radio.
That's true to me too, since I was seven. That's
a dream. Yeah, that was a dream. And then if
it didn't work out, it become a taxi drift. Okay,
I may still do that. I don't think there's anything
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wrong with that.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
I think the freedom of driving taxi or bus is great.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know, make your own hours work as much reality
is not as much fun as an eight year old.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
But the problem with driving taxi or or or a
bus nowadays is exactly what you just said. There's too
many a holes out there. You're gonna die and you
get they get in your car. Yes, you know before
you would lock the doors to prevent those people from
getting in your car at like stop signs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, it's probably a federal civil rights violation. Right if
a guy comes in and you think, no, I really
don't want to take him, and you drive off.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, you're gonna get to You're gonna Yeah, your your guy.
Speaker 11 (30:49):
LA County District Attorney George Gascon is coming.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
On at four o'clock.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Is that right, Well, he's got a press conference at
f and you know he's under a lot of pressure
to throw the book at this guy that shop cop. Yes,
we're gonna look at the multiple death sentences on this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And then we also have.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
The California loses two more property insurance companies, so we're
down to I don't know, like three. Nobody wants to
insure anything. No, Oh my god, is the price is gone?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Mark? Did your insurance go way up because you're in
the hills. Try to ensure it.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
If you can get an eighteen year old brand new
driver six grand a year. All right, yeah, six thousand
a year, one of those I do, I do, oh yeah,
and I and she came very close at Santa Anida
to getting full coverage. Maybe next week, all right, Coran Dog,
(31:42):
come on, Come on.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
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feel whatever's going on in the world. Eight seven seven
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moist eighty six. Horrific horrific story that we covered some
yesterday and now we know who the perpetrator is. Yesterday
five in the morning at a metro stop at the
Studio City on Lancasham, a woman was stabbed in the
throat and she was stabbed so viciously that she died.
(01:01):
There was a tremendous loss of blood. Nobody even wanted
to go nearer there was so much blood coming out
of her. Well, they got the guy, so the police say.
And Blake Trolley is with us from KFI News to
give us more detail.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Lake, Yeah, John, So we're learning more about the guy
accused of violently stabbing that woman on that metro train yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
But we're also learning more about the crime.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know, yesterday, the way they described this attack was unprovokeable.
Now it appears that Elliott Nawden, who is homeless, stabbed
this woman several times, including in the throat, because he
was stealing her purse while she was on her way
home from work. We're told that she got on the
train from North Hollywood and she was heading towards downtown LA.
(01:42):
And if you remember from yesterday, police had said that
this happened sometime between the last stop and that Universal
City station.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And he attacked her.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She was bleeding, as you said, so profusely that other
people at the platform. She got off the train, so
did he. And you can only imagine the struggle, this
struggle this poor woman was going through getting off this
train and people it's so gory. People don't even want
to come close and help her out. And now, yes,
we are learning that Elliott Nawden does have a criminal pass,
(02:16):
specifically with the rail system. In twenty nineteen, he was
charged with attacking a passenger in La He spent five
days in jail, but he was ordered to stay away
from trains for three years.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
That was part of his probation. And if he didn't, well,
who's even.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Gonna be there to know whether or not he got
on one of these these trains or not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One of the ambassadors is gonna stop it, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon in battery. He was sentenced to
four years in prison. He paroled to state hospital in
March at twenty twenty two. He was released on parole
supervision in August at twenty twenty two and discharge in
March of last year. This is some great reporting done
by the La Times at NBC, just really digging up
this guy's this guy's pass I was calling my sources
(03:01):
this morning, really trying to get a picture of what
this guy had done. Now, he was arrested most recently
for trespassing earlier this year, so he does have a
mark on his name. Just back to January. Nothing too
serious there, but you know, with this past, you might
think they might throw him back in jail.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah. Did you say he was in a hospital state hospital?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, he was in a state hospital in March of
twenty twenty two, and related to the least in twenty
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Related to the crime that he was convicted of.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, so this stems from that assault with a deadly
weapon and battery. So he was sentenced to four years
in prison. But he was the role to the state hospital.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For that was that was interesting. It's like, why did
they send me to the state hospital. Obviously they thought
he was he was out of his mind, so why
did they re release him in twenty twenty three?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Like always, hear a lot about capacity, and you have
to wonder if this is a capacity issue with the
state hospitals. I mean, that was the first question that
I had. This is something that we've heard law enforcement
officials talk about, is that we need to up that
capacity at these state hospitals because we have people like this.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They get released back out.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Onto the streets. This guy's homeless, here he is he
ends up on a train here in LA and this
poor woman is murdered just trying to come home from work.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He's forty five years old, and he's homeless, and he's
been in a state hospital, and he's been convicted of
violent crimes and he's out in the middle of the
night on one of the metro trains. I mean, that
just shouldn't happen. This is a guy who deserved to
be locked up for a long time. And I'm dying
to know, like all the details of what happened after
(04:45):
we got sentenced five years ago, and why they transferred
him to the hospital, and why they led him out,
and what they thought his condition was at the age
of forty five, because obviously that has something to do
with this vicious attack. That kind of attack is insanity.
That's not a normal mugging.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, I'll tell you, John, It's really frustrating, just from
a reporter's standpoint of how hard it is to really
get the information on people who are accused of these
heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Do they No, they do not know.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's very hard to get answers on this stuff. It's
very hard to get straight answers on this And you know,
unless you have a relationship with somebody on the inside
giving you some of this information.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's hard to get it. Out there.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
So there's been some great reporting on this, but again
even with that, it's still limited in scope right as
to what really leaks out as to what exactly happened
and how he ended up back on this train where
now we have this woman killed. I do want to
point this out. I saw a stout reported John that
violent crime on transit overall is down forty one percent,
(05:48):
but to the same tune, homicides are up, and these
freak accidents will make people feel unsafe. Homicides on the
Metro system. They were none in twenty nineteen, there were
three and twenty twenty five, even twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty two, and six in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Now we were.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Told that officers, so this is legitimate law enforcement officers
do ride the system and target their focus where there
are issues. But you know, this is a prime example.
We were told yesterday there was not an officer on
this train. There was security on the platform, but there
was not an officer on this train. And just about
everybody I spoke with yesterday said that they wanted to
(06:26):
see more of an actual law enforcement armed law enforcement
presence on this train.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And I wanted to play this for you. John.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We spoke to that high school student yesterday. Do you
remember her, Yes, I do, and she was criticizing the
ambassadors and she was saying she wants to see more
actual armed security. So here's some more of her remarks
from yesterday. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's really sad. But I always feel very like scared
to ride the train in the first place. But I
can't really say I'm surprised. I mean, they have all
the Metro ambassadors always on their phone or you know,
just doing whatever, like talking or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean, I've seen a lot.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I mean, I wouldn't have expected that.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Though you're saying the communy made about the Metro Ambassadors,
you don't think they're helping very much for safety.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No, I've seen Metro ambassadors like talking on the phone
while like a homeless man spot on an elderly couple
and they were on the opposite side of the train
and they did nothing. They just stood over there. But
I'm not sure if they're like allowed to intervene. But
I've never seen any intervention by them.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's a fake program. It's a scam program.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The ambassadors are probably scrolling or they're playing a game.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and fairness Metro does not try to say that
they are an alternative to armed security, But that said,
people want to see more of that armed security. Just
about everybody we spoke with yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The problem is people getting stabbed to death or assaulted.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't know what problem the ambassadors are solving, but
the real issue is the passengers getting getting attacked. I'm
just looking through the news stories about this not in character.
So he spends four years in prison for assaulting somebody
on him with a deadly weapon, and he did that
after probation for attacking a train passenger, and then he
(08:17):
gets arrested several more times after he's out of prison,
after he's out of the state hospital. In fact, in
February twenty twenty four, he got arrested for assault at
this same Redline station.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So it's the same.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Guy over and over with a whole string of arrests
and assaults on trains. I don't know why this guy
isn't blacklisted from ever getting near a train.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I think the question is, even if he was,
who would be there to really stop him from getting
on the system.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I know, I mean, there's got to be There's got
to be some permanent solution for someone like this, because
now look what we have or what is everyone going
to offer the woman interface or the woman's family thoughts
and prayers.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Do you remember when we covered that story about them
playing the music at that station in MacArthur Park, Yeah,
keep the crazies out of the train station. Well, that day,
I remember really feeling bad for everybody that I saw
that had to use the system, because I truly was like, Wow,
this is how everybody here has to get to work.
This is a necessity for them to make a living.
(09:20):
They have to ride this system. And now we're hearing
that this woman was also on our way home from work,
and it just speaks volumes to what a lot of
people are going through here in La, just trying to
get by.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
The fools who run Metro.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Their idea of a law enforcement response is have ambassadors
scrolling on their phone and playing obnoxious music on the intercom.
I mean, that's their idea of a crime fighting strategy.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's just terrible.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All right, Well, I want to keep on this story
and find out who this woman is too. That's just Blake,
very good, Thank you for coming on. All right, thanks, John, Well,
we'll do we'll do more. Also, we're gonna give away
one thousand dollars. And this homeless case before the Supreme
Court has put Gavin Newsom and Tom McClintock on the
(10:08):
same side.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We'll explain coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I want to tell you you probably went through this
yesterday a couple of times, and actually we've been talking
about it for quite a while. This Supreme Court case
could really change dramatically city and town's abilities in California
to clean up homeless encampments because they claim, and I
(10:42):
emphasize claim that their hands are tied when it comes
to cleaning up homeless encampments unless they have enough shelter space.
That was the Supreme Court ruling is that you can't
criminalize and think people in encampments with either criminal or
civil penalties unless you have a place to put them,
(11:02):
you know, on some other requirements.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But obviously it's a stupid decision.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
No other appeals court in the nation, in any other
district had this promoted this concept, just the Ninth Circuit,
and everybody hates it. Both Democrats and Republicans and normal
people people who are not political, like most people are
not political. They just want a decent living environment. But
(11:30):
it has brought together Gavin Newsom along with people like
Tom McClintock, the congressman in Northern California, Kevin Kylie also
from Northern California as a congressman, and he's constantly ragging
on Newsom, but they both supported actually had they had
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a Friend of the Court briefs that they that they
had submitted in their names, and they used They had
the same reason too, that the Court has usurp the
policy making authority of local municipalities. You know, I admire
the justices who say, you know what, this is up
(12:12):
to the cities and towns to decide what to do.
It is not up to judges to set policy on
how to clean encampments, which is what a lot of
Supreme Court justice is indicated is their stance. It's like,
why are you coming to us, Why do we have
to decide how to do this? Well, it's because of bogus,
a bogus decision by the Ninth Circuit saying this is
(12:34):
a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
If there's any criminal or civil penalties.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But ultimately there has to be because if you violate
the law repeatedly, if you don't follow a police order repeatedly,
then yeah, there's got to be a penalty. I mean
without Without a penalty, there's no coercion. Without coercion, they're
never going to leave. Here's a quick overview from CBS
News reporter Tina Patel on how this case is going
(12:59):
to change in California's day to day dealing with encampment.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Play cut number three here, Tina pateel EMU is under attack?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
What do we do when homelessness is under attack?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Many of the people taking part in the rally today
are part of the nonprofit group LA Community Action Network.
They work with the local unhoused population and say, as
it is, people on the streets are often treated as criminals.
They're worried that could become even more of a problem
when the Supreme Court rules on the case currently before them,
the argument that it's a biological necessity to sleep outside.
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Early this morning, people gathered outside the Federal Courthouse in
downtown LA to listen to the Supreme Court arguments. The
justices are looking into whether an anti camping ordinance that
the small city of Grands Pass, Oregon, tried to pass
is constitutional or not. Officials in Oregon and here in
California say they need to be able to pass and
enforce laws to address the growing holessness crisis, but activists
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say people on the streets should not be punished.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I pray for their hearts and their minds to open
up to receive the vibrations from the people here down
on this level, because they are so far separated from
the truth and reality that I'm not I'm not sure
if they have the capacity to make a decision that's
gonna actually benefit the people.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Stop, stop the thing there. I wanted to get to her.
Did you notice what her name was? Queen Sheba Khalifia.
This is who CBS puts as the uh as the
expert on homelessness on this Supreme Court decision. Who do
(14:44):
we turn to here is Queen Sheba Khalifia, who used
to be a homeless person. She used to be a vagrant.
Now she's a pundit and listen to her analysis again.
I don't know if you caught that she goes. I
pray for their hearts and minds to open up to
receive the vibrations from the people here down on this level,
(15:08):
the vibrations like the homeless guy who stabbed that woman
in the throat to death on the metro line, his vibrations.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're treated like.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Criminals because they can make crimes all day long, all
day and night, misdemeanors by the hundreds, every single one
of them, and creates just a disgusting environment.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's why they're treated like criminals.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And by the way, I'm done with with with activists
and protesters, who I presume now are paid professionals. Their chants,
their rhymes, their stupid megaphones, they're there, there, there, their
marches there. I'm just fed up with them. Whether it's
for the hamas terras they're supporting, are homeless people who
(15:58):
don't want to get off the drug.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
All all the climate change people block and trail all
of them. Sick of all of them. They represent a tiny,
tiny fringe. Their issues are mostly absurd, and some of
them are dangerous and constantly being covered and constantly and
everybody's afraid to do something. They all need to get
(16:25):
the firehouses.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
What they need.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
A sixty Codway is coming up after after four o'clock
and he'll have one thousand dollars to give away next
hour two. I can't get enough of reading stories about
how San Francisco's progressive politicians have destroyed the city with
(16:52):
their stupid policies. I mean, it's it's difficult to believe
that they were allowing it to crumble before their and
they will not change course. Some of the people are
trying to change course, and they've had recall movements and
they're trying to vote for different candidates, but the ones
who are still in power they won't budge. And now
(17:15):
finally it looks like the whole real estate market is crashing. Yeah,
it hit a tipping point. You're not gonna believe what
I'm going to tell you. San Francisco's housing market is
in free fall. There's something called the San Francisco four
Seasons residential That sounds like a nice place, doesn't it
(17:38):
anything with four seasons in the name. Well, in twenty twenty,
you would have to pay nearly ten million dollars for
the Peedhouse at San Francisco four seasons residential ten million.
Now it's up for sale at three point seventy five million,
(17:59):
sixty two sent mark down. Say, I can't sell it
for ten million or nine or eight or seven or
six or five or four. It's three point seven five million,
five bedroom home on Fourth Avenue. Less than a year
ago it sold for one point six Well, that person
(18:22):
couldn't last a year, and now they're dumping it at
one point one. They're taking a one third loss. A
two bedroom condo on Market Street, which sold in twenty
nineteen for one point two million, sold this month for
six hundred and seventy five thousand.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
That is unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
I lived in the Bay Area many many years ago,
and I lived in the East Bay, but I would
go to San Francisco a lot, and it was so
unaffordable and so desirable at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, I mean, the most expensive real estate market in
the country.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Frazy it was.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And now this is this is fifty to seventy five
percent off. Here's a here's a home that overlooks the
Golden gate Bridge ocean front views. It was it hasn't
sold in thirty five years. Whoever got this home has
been there for thirty five years.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Yeah, with those views.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They put it up on the market for almost thirteen million.
Last March they're selling it for seven point eight million.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
John, you need to go buy that, you know, hold
on to it until things turn out.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, this is the time, this seriously, this is
the time to invest. You're never going to get sixty
percent off on a on a San Francisco penhapany because this.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Is not sustainable.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
The city has got to turn around somehow, some way, someday,
and then people.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are going to be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I mean, you've got to get rid of the leadership
in San Francisco. Look what they're They're destroying so much wealth.
Now Here is the Kapper. There is a building on
Market Street, nine ninety five Market Street. Somebody spent sixty
two million dollars. I guess a company, right, Yeah, it's
(20:10):
a commercial building, sixty two million dollars. Last week someone
bought it at auction for six million.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
Oh my god, are you serious?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Ninety percent discount from sixty two million to six million
in just six years. There's the Craig Ackerman is quoted.
He's a real estate guy in San Francisco. He's been
there for decades, and he said, it's it's He said,
the continued mismanagement is going to continue unless drastic changes
(20:40):
are made in lead leadership.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
He said.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
He said the current administration is into liberal grand standing
over pragmatic solutions. And he says, I do think San
Francisco probably has another five to eight years of mismanagement
comping coming. Things are a mess out here and they
don't need to be. This could all be changed by
the stroke of a pen, but the mayor they chose
(21:05):
this ridiculousness. I don't think it's going to change. They're
happy waving their liberal flags and looking for a fantasy
land that doesn't exist. It'll kill you on the way there.
And that's what's Craig Ackerman says, and he's right, it's
all their horrific policies has brought huge amounts of crime,
huge numbers of vagrants, just a sense of lawlessness and danger.
(21:27):
Not to mention the open air insane asylums, the open
air drug markets that.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Go on for blocks and blocks and blocks and thousands
show up.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Remember when they had in the Tenderloin district, they had
some kind of what was it a needle exchange program?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No that's bad enough. But this was free drugs they
were offering in a safe space, in a safe space, yes,
that's what it was. And they got thousands.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But they said no, no, no, we'll attract lots of
drug addicts here, but we'll counsel them and get him
into treatment. Seventeen thousand drug addicts showed up in the
Tenderloin district. I'm not making this up. Seventeen thousand. You
know how how many people they got helped for won?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
And they shut down the program, didn't They just have
this big celebration about you know that very expensive toilet.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yes, the one point seven million dollars.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
So I'm humong his grand opening celebration. It was either
today or yes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They finally had it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, because I just read a story a couple of
days ago.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Maybe it was because they were going to open it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Trying to explain why this happened, almost defending it, like
you don't understand because of the way the city rules are,
and you know, the permits and the requirements and the
wages you have to pay and this and that. It's
like it has to be one point seven million. It's like,
shut up, get out of here. The toilet's one point
seven million, even the condos at sixty percent discount.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
More than that. All right, we've got more coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Devor mentioned the one point seven million dollar toilet which
became famous in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They did have a ceremony finally debuting the toilet, except
they they scrapped that entire project. They were they were
going to do it, and there was so much worldwide
outcry over spending one point seven million on a toilet.
It's in the Noah Valley or no Valley neighborhood in
(23:40):
San Francisco. One hundred people showed up at the town
square Noi Valley. It's calf uh and and uh, the
event organizer said, Neu Valley, let's hear it for our
not one point seven million dollar bathroom. They had a
live jazz band and he's whoever was m seeing this.
(24:03):
The event organizer, Leslie Crawford said, we when everybody laughs
at you, you've got to take the power back and
laugh at yourself. What they did is they did a
deal with a private company that ended up donating a
prefabricated bathroom. It's I assume it's like those trailers that
you see at public outdoor events, and they're kind of nice.
(24:28):
And what there was a prefabricated modular unit, and the
donation and the labor brought the costs down to seven
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Park officials used three
(24:49):
hundred thousand dollars of grant money to bring it down further,
so they ended up spending a few hundred thousand total
instead of one point seven million. But that should have
been the original idea, is to get those prefabricated modular
toilet buildings. There's a why did they go for the
(25:10):
one point seven and then and then defend it and
come up with a whole bunch of nutty excuses, I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Then the whole this thing is how come it had
to become an international story where everybody is laughing and
mocking you.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Why? Why isn't it obvious like the first time?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Well, first of all, somebody had to type up the
one point seven million dollar proposal, right, so just explain
to me, like in a private company, nobody would do that.
Let's say a private company was building a toilet at
one of their locations, one of their properties. If you're
the guy who walks in to an executive's office, say I,
you know, I got a great design here, I got
(25:55):
a great bed. It's gonna be one point seven million
dollars for a toilet. That's that's the last time you'll
walk into the office. You'll be tossed out on your
ass in the street. But then somebody on the other
side of the desk said, well, that's pretty good. Yeah,
let me send this down down the line, because you know,
in government, you've got to have multiple departments and multiple
executives signing off, and everybody looks like, yeah, it's reasonable, yeah,
(26:19):
one point seven million for toward sure. Absolutely, So it's
it's group think. Everybody in the chain of commanded, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the only thing that killed it was the publicity
with if there is some magical way you could avoid
all the publicity would have been built for that price,
and nobody questions it. Nobody says not, come on, could
(26:40):
we get it down to one point two one point
one even now? I mean, we all have toilets in
our homes. You might have three or four or five.
We don't have people do not have two million dollars
worth of Wait a second, it would be ten million
(27:01):
dollars worth of toilets in their homes. Yes, right, you
had like a four bedroom house and maybe five bathrooms.
All those bathrooms are ten million dollars And that's with
showers and bathtubs and sinks in the whole bit. Right,
that's just crazy. There's one more story. There's a seventy
(27:28):
year old uber driver named Peter McNulty. He lives in
the Annealope Valley. He comes to La on the weekends
because there's a little more writers. And he showed up
late Saturday night, about twelve forty five am Sunday actually,
and he picks up a guy on Lancersham Boulevard who
is adamant about the address he was going to and
he had to be there quickly. And when they arrived
(27:51):
at the corner of lebre at Hollywood at one in
the morning, McNulty told the man, hey, we've reached the stop.
And he says, no, no, I have to go to
this address. And I said, no, this is where we are,
this is the address. And they had a five minute argument,
and then he sat there and stared at his phone.
So McNulty put his car in park, shut the engine off,
left the vehicle to let the passenger out, like open
(28:12):
the passenger door, and said you got to get out
now it was late and I have someone else.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
To pick up.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And the guy jumped out of the car and started
swinging at him, and they ended up on the ground
rolling around for about five minutes. So he got that
crap beat out of him. There's a photo of him
with his face all blighted up and bruised. When I
was a kid, I wanted to be a taxi driver.
I did, But then I grew up and realized this
(28:38):
is what you pick up.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
How old a kid were you when you wanted to
be a cab driver? Twenty seven? Well, I got the
memo late.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Still a dream, actually, yeah, I think it's genetic. My
dad grew up in Poland his dream was to be
a bus driver. Really was then World War Two got
in away. But when I was a kid, I thought
it'd be the greatest thing in I've around all day. Yeah,
you meet people, Yeah, because I love driving, so I
thought i'd get I'd get to see the world through
a taxi.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Now it's dangerous.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
No, this is what happens by the way, three D
house of low level dreams in your family?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, yeah, you know immigrant family. Like a dream is
the lottery. What did you want to be like?
Speaker 10 (29:21):
You owned the Lakers his dad it was a show
business legend.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
But I think I think an occupation is a driving
a cab.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I don't know if a dream. Did you have some?
That's a fair point.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Did you have a like a weird that'd be a
cool job. I wanted to be an inventor. Oh yeah,
did you invent anything? Couldn't come up with.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
An invented ways to screw around?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Do you have any desires? I always wanted to be
a broadcaster. I really did, from very very early age.
I really did. No, I always wanted to be in radio.
That's true to me too, since I was seven. That's
a dream. Yeah, that was a dream. And then if
it didn't work out, it become a taxi drift. Okay,
I may still do that. I don't think there's anything
(30:09):
wrong with that.
Speaker 11 (30:10):
I think the freedom of driving taxi or bus is great.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know, make your own hours work as much reality
is not as much fun as an eight year old.
Speaker 11 (30:19):
But the problem with driving taxi or or or a
bus nowadays is exactly what you just said. There's too
many a holes out there. You're gonna die and you
get they get in your car. Yes, you know before
you would lock the doors to prevent those people from
getting in your car at like stop signs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, it's probably a federal civil rights violation. Right if
a guy comes in and you think, no, I really
don't want to take him, and you drive off.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah, you're gonna get to You're gonna Yeah, your your guy.
Speaker 11 (30:49):
LA County District Attorney George Gascon is coming.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
On at four o'clock.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Is that right, Well, he's got a press conference at
f and you know he's under a lot of pressure
to throw the book at this guy that shop cop. Yes,
we're gonna look at the multiple death sentences on this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And then we also have.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
The California loses two more property insurance companies, so we're
down to I don't know, like three. Nobody wants to
insure anything. No, Oh my god, is the price is gone?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Mark? Did your insurance go way up because you're in
the hills. Try to ensure it.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
If you can get an eighteen year old brand new
driver six grand a year. All right, yeah, six thousand
a year, one of those I do, I do, oh yeah,
and I and she came very close at Santa Anida
to getting full coverage. Maybe next week, all right, Coran Dog,
(31:42):
come on, Come on.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Drives are live in the Camp twenty newsroom. Hey, you've
been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can
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