December 9, 2025 • 21 mins
A Los Angeles man is arrested after taking street safety into his own hands—by painting his own crosswalks. Then, Conway breaks down why Porsches in Russia suddenly stopped working and the shocking 7-minute Bel-Air heist caught on camera.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KMF I Am six forty and you're listening to
the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
If you're a New York Mets fan, you're probably a
little pissed off that Edwin d Is, the premier closer,
maybe the number one closer in all of baseball, has
left New York and said no, he was earning I
don't know, twenty thirty million dollars a year and said
(00:38):
he doesn't think that the Mets are going to win
the World Series, and so he split. And that's devastating
to a city and to a team. The Mets have
been trying to put together a World Series team for
a long time now. And when you're number one guy,
that's like, you know, if Otani had left the Dodgers
this year and went to the Mets, that'd be a huge,
(01:00):
huge blow to the Dodgers. And it's it's a devastating
move for the Mets. Now here's the question, Well, Edwin
dia is bring out his introduction music and will we
hear this at Dodger Stadium starting next year?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now pitting for the Dodgers, Edwin.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
All right, is he bringing Timmy trumpet with him to
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I guess we'll have to wait and see. And that
that song is great if he's pitching BB's and striking
guys out, you know, one after another after another after another.
But if he comes in and he's throwing pancakes that
go over the wall, it's a little embarrassing to play
that song for a guy that comes in is giving up,
(02:27):
you know, six earned runs and two innings. But the
Dodgers just got healthier with his Edwin Diaz and the
Dodgers are I just looked this up during the break,
No surprise, the absolute favorites to win the World Series
again next year. So it'll be a lot of fun
(02:47):
to be a Dodger fan again and watch win after
win after win and getting into the playoffs and trying
to get the third straight World Series. And this dog,
your team has already considered a dynasty, so it'll be
dynasty plus a mega dynasty. Yeah, it's gonna be a
(03:08):
lot of fun, A lot of fun. Just a local
guy in Los Angeles who was arrested and what was
he doing. He was painting crosswalks on the street. Because
the city refused to do it, and he thought these
kids crossing the street were in danger, so he went
out and painted crosswalks.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And what do they do? They arrested him for it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Guy trying to help kids stay alive has been arrested
for doing that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, when we got out here this morning, we couldn't
tell the difference between what he painted and what the
city painted. You can see three crosswalks here marked and
the third one right there. Well, he didn't get to
finish it because that's when two LAPD officers arrived and
arrested him. Now we do have Jonathan Hill with us
this morning. Jonathan, will you come on by Hi there,
Good morning to you. You painted this, I mean, what
(04:00):
a pretty remarkable job. I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Oh, thanks, We do our best, We do our best
to be precise.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, guys taking matters into his own hands to help
out LA because LA can't.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Get it together.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Okay, So this is a legal though, and that's why
you were arrested over the weekend because this isn't city approved.
You didn't have the permits for it, So explain that
to me.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yeah, So we've been protesting for safer streets and a
more effective government. We believe that traffic violence is a
public health crisis and trying to act with urgency to
get stuff done.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's exactly right. The man is one hundred percent right
so far.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We also think that these things are things that can
be done effectively by teams of volunteers, and we want
to empower people to step outside and get to know
their community.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
This guy should be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Enough with these career politicians. Have a guy gets his
hands dirty with paint, be our mayor or not our mayor.
You are mayor of the city of Los Angeles next
time around.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So did you explain that to the officers when they
came out over the weekend you were arrested, essentially saying
you're not changing the right place for drivers or pedestrians.
You're just making the crosswalk more visible.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Yeah, exactly, We're not changing the legal rights of drivers
or pedestrians. There is a crosswalk here, regardless of whether
it's marked under California Vehicle Code Section two seventy five.
I explained that to the officer. We have had interactions
with the police before where they've been friendly. They understand
we're working towards the shared goal of safer streets public safety.
And the officer in this case was doing his job
and he arrested me.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And what has been your response and what has been
the response rather from the city.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Well, you know, I've met with the city.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
How that go? How that go?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
When you meet with the city and go, hey, I'm
willing to spend my own time, my own paint, my
own materials and hard work to paint these crosswalks. We're
going to help the city of La. And what does
the city of VLA do. They arrest him. They arrest him.
They don't arrest the guy who you know, is peeling
one off while he's sleeping on Ventura Boulevard, or a
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guy is taking a dump on receive a Boulevard. They
as the guy who's trying to help kids stay alive.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
There was a bit of a lack of a response,
which was frustrating, But that's all water under the bridge.
We want to work together, we want to do whatever
it takes to work fast to implement this goal of
safer streets.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And this is not the only location where you've done this.
Also in the Sawtel neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yes, We've painted all over Sawtel the Valley, Koreatown. Yes,
PVC is all city and all city crew.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, but you're not supposed to be painting this. It's
up to the city to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, but the city doesn't do it, so we got
to do it.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
So it's illegal because it's unauthorized. And it's unauthorized because
it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Go figure.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So the urgency of this.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Explain that to me?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
What have you seen and heard about a witness over
the last few years that you feel it's an urgency
to do this.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Yeah, traffic violence.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I saw an ad and it said that guns are
leading cause of death of kids in LA or in
the United States, and I realized that's not true. In
LA and LA cars are a leading clause of death
for kids.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And we hear that pretty important statement.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Through in LA and LA cars are leading death for kids.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And LA cars are the leading cause of death. And
this guy's trying to help these kids stay alive.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
LA cars are the leading cause of death for kids.
And we've adopted this sort of stagnancy where we think, oh,
it's part of our culture, it can't be changed.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
But it can't.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I think people really want liveable, walkable streets. There's too
much needless trauma, there's too much violence. Yeah, just an
example forth in New Hampshire, we had this roundabout plan
back in twenty eleven. The city didn't do anything about it.
There was the stagnant plans and then this led to
a nine year old boy's death, nine year old and
dear gavarette and that was entirely preventable, and we want
to act fast before more that happens.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, how many what's the number?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How many kids have to die before this guy is
allowed to go out there and paint the crosswalks?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is it five? Is it fifty? Is it one hundred?
What's the number?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Where the City of La says, okay, that's enough dead kids.
Let's let this guy paint the sidewalk or the crosswalks.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
And background here alive.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I do want to just show you guys the markings
here on the street.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Now, how did.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You do this?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Because it looks perfect.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Yeah, So we have a whole operation. We use stencils,
masking tape, we use vals, warzone marking paints. It's a
contractor great asphalt paint.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, we have an operation.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well not to make light of this issus got of
expensive too. I imagine asphalt paint is very very expensive.
That's one that has the glitter in it, so it's reflective,
and it's thick, and it lasts a long time. It's
got to be expensive, hundreds of dollars a gallon.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, not to make light of the situation, but perhaps
the city can hire you to do this because clearly
you did an impeccable job. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Now,
of course this is still considered vandalism, and that's why
Jonathan was sighted.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, Jonathan was arrested for vandalism. Isn't that classic? Isn't
that great? Isn't that sort of a microcosm of the
city of La that somebody tries to help out and
they throw them in prison or in.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Jail for a misdemeanor. And he has a court date
set for January fifth. We've also reached out to the
City of La to get their response over the summer.
They did respond to this, essentially saying that they're willing
to work with him, but this should not be done illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Okay, this is odd, kind of weird timing here, but
I have jury duty on January fifth. That's my first
day I think of jury duty. Next year. I keep
postponing and postponing it, hoping, hoping, you know, the time,
and that I'm not around anymore, the city closes or
something that I don't have to do jury duty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I've postponed it for the last time.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So the first week of January, I've got jury duty,
and I hope I'm sitting on this one because I'll
let this guy off with no fine, no arrest, and
give him a big award so you can buy more
paint and paint more crosswalks.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I might be on the jury that sees this case.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That would be great, And I'll tell you how I'm
voting right now, completely innocent, one hundred percent innocent, and
nothing will change my mind.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So hope I get on this case. Who would say guilty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right, yeah, who's gonna throw this guy away for ten years? Like,
ah ay, you should have known, you should have known.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's not good. He's guilty. Good night, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was a weird story coming out of Russia. You know,
you know, Porsche is a beautiful car. They designed these beautiful,
you know, vehicles. For some reason, Russia Porsches just stop working.
Suddenly stop working.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
What's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We'll go back, we'll find out.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
We've got some odd news here with Porsche in Russia.
They suddenly stop working to find out why this is
going on.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Pretty fancy car for it to just shut down.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Porsche owners in.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Russia woke up to find that their cars have been disabled.
Some Porscha owners hundreds, maybe thousands of cars in Russia junked, bricked,
won't turn on if I wanted car to break down
when I tried to use it, but they range Rover WHOA.
It all appears to be related to a satellite software
issue which was triggered remotely. It affects cars that have
(11:17):
a security system that dates back.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
To twenty twelve.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
If the computer is told the vehicle is stolen, it
does not operate. Now how this happened is some sort
of mystery. Many wondering if it could be a cyber attack.
Perhaps James Bond, I don't know. Porsia has stopped supporting
operations in Russia since the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Ah, I think we're on to what happened here.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Porsia has stopped supporting operations in Russia since the war
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right, so Russia just shut them all down.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Which means people affected by the issue have to just
figure it out on their own.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh, there's a good idea. One hundred thousand dollars for
a car and you're on your own.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
There's some indication that a manual reset might get the
cars back up and running, but pretty crazy stuff. Imagine
I leave your customer stranded like that does It's just
having a car that can be somehow remotely turned off
by somebody.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
That's kind of a lot of cars.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's a lot of cars these days.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That is a lot of cars, all right, bell Air,
it's not just you know Resita Tarzana Andcino Sherman Oaks.
Now the burglars are going higher end with higher end
homes and bell Air home burglarized. And I think they
were inside the house for seven minutes. I know seven
minutes doesn't seem like a long time, but when people
(12:31):
are in your house, that is a lifetime.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yah, Lady's a scary situation for any family to have
to go through. Now, they weren't home at the time,
but tell me they feel violated after sauspects strangers broke
into their bell Air home and stole a number of
valuable items tonight. Those suspects, they're still out there.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Night.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
Consider them the not so fresh bandits of bell Air.
Four mass men in dark hoodies seem to appear out
of nowhere, going through hedges to avoid the home surveillance
system without realizing multiple cameras we're tracking their every move.
One of the main climbs over a side gate, unlocks
the door and lets all the intruders through.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The back and party time. Time to get your party on.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Everybody's in now, let's get the valuables and get out.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Once inside, they use a laundry hamper from the home
and start throwing in items.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Oh so that you didn't even bring their own hamper.
They use the hamper inside the hall ano they're rip off.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
They also take a safe with them.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
This was very bold, just cameras all over the place.
In fact, one of their rooms that they entered shows cameras.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
The homeowners as that we not show their faces for
safety reasons.
Speaker 11 (13:43):
You feel violated. This is a home that you know
you're supposed to feel safe in.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
We worked hard to.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Be able to provide a home for our children.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And not in La anymore.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
We don't ever want them to feel like it's not
safe to come home too.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Home burglary happened Friday night, just before seven o'clock. The
thieves get in and out in just seven minutes.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
They were really well disguised, but you can see some
of their mannerisms. You can hear their voice, and you
can also hear one of them say another person's name.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
One of their names is Devon.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh there's an odd name, right, is it?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Devin?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Devin?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I bet that's a fake name. I don't bet there's
there's anyone who's ever broken into a house named Devon Devin.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
No, no, no, no, no, no, that's a made up name.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Just they have made up names so people don't call
them by their real names so they don't get caught.
And Devin is definitely one of them, Devin Devin.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
They are seen leaving in a Dodge Challenger that was
waiting for them outside. When LAPD got there, the burglars
were long gone.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
This is when I think a lot of these sort
of rubbis start to happen. People are desperate for the holidays,
and I think the real lesson here is for everyone
to be aware that this could happen to them.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, if you go home tonight and you're not burglarized,
you got lucky. You got lucky today, because it might
be tomorrow, might be the next week. And I also
heard this from LAPD buddy of mine who is la
retired LAPD now, but he said, if somebody breaks into
your home, there's a fifty percent chance five zero fifty
(15:30):
percent chance that they're coming back in the next week
or two because they saw stuff inside that house that
they wanted and they didn't have the arm space or
the time to grab it. So they're coming back. Fifty percent,
that's a lot. That's a huge number.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
So for no one has been arrested about police believe
they are serial burglars.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Anyone with any information on the suspects.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Now, the one saving grace here is that they're not
coming in and killing everybody, you know, They're not beating
the hell out of mom or the kids or shooting
the dog at least all the time. So there's that,
But it's going to eventually get to that, you know,
because these guys are going to keep doing this and
then when they do run in to a guy or
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a wife or a husband or kids, then there might
be some radical, radical changes in the way they break
into homes.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
You're encouraged to contact the LAPD re porting live tonight
in bel Air, Corlosalcevo katy LA five News.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, wild out there.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's the wild wild West out there, and you gotta
be careful. Gotta be careful. All these people have cameras,
they all have alarms, they all have doors that are
locked and triple locked and quadruple locked. They all have
a lot of them have these shades and shutters over
their doors, and people still get in.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Here's another tip for you.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
According to LAPD and I think Alan Hamilton and Detective
Chief Detective Alan Hamilton told me this, thirty eight percent
of burglaries in Los Angeles, the guy goes through an
open door, a door that's not locked, jiggles the handle,
it opens, Bang, He's into your life. So lock up,
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get the cameras. I know sometimes they're disabled, but you've
got to do everything you can to protect your house
and your kids and your family because it is the
wild wild West. Every day we come in there's another
story like this.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
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from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
It is The Conway Show. We'd like to thank a
Farmer Boys for coming by and dropping off beautiful food,
the milkshakes, the fries.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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So slide in to a Farmer's Boy. Farmer Boys, Farmer Boys,
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(18:15):
the fries.
Speaker 13 (18:16):
I had both the gesso fries and the peppermint shape.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Wow, and you knock that out? Oh yes, I don't
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Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
How to select a Christmas tree comes a day late
and dollars short for me since we got ours on Sunday.
But maybe there's some tips in here that you could use.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
It's the classic Christmas tree debate, do you go real
or fake? Many folks can't imagine going with an artificial tree.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Here's a stat that may surprise you.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
More than eighty percent of American households use artificial trees.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (18:51):
One reason is that the artificial trees of today look
amazingly real.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I get that, I got that, But eighty percent
I would never have guessed it was that.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
High House of Holidays in Queens, New York. They sell both.
This place is incredible.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Man.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
I gotta say, you're like the King of Christmas here,
well Santis to King of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Many trees here, comedy team, these two idiots night got them.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Might let's play it again.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
This place is incredible, man.
Speaker 13 (19:17):
I gotta say you're like the King of Christmas here.
Speaker 14 (19:20):
Well Santis to King of Christmas, Jesus Christ, as Ernie
Anderson would say, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
Many trees here come pre lit with lights and decorations.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
And these are led lights now, yes, so they don't
get hot.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
They don't get hot, they twinkle, they blank. This tree
alone has a nineteen hundred lights on it. Geez, just
stick the topping, you plug it in, and you sing
some songs.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
They don't come cheap, even this right here.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
You've got this one on sale for about five hundred bucks.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Mike's selling a lot.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
But if you buy a real tree every year it
kind of pays for itself for four or five years.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Trees are Trees are now real. Trees are between a
hundred and one hundred and fifty dollars a trade.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, I got one for sixty, so I must have
got his bargain.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All right, Your holidays are here, and you're probably gonna
go to a Christmas party or Christmas gathering and you're
gonna be stuck in a conversation and you're not gonna
know how to get out. You know, you got stuck
in with the conversation with a guy and you don't
know how to get out.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm gonna give you the biggest tip in the world.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
If my dad gave me this tip, I've passed it
on to people, and a lot of people use it.
Compliment and move, Compliment and move. You pat the guy
on the back, and you go, you got some funny
s there, and use the whole S word, just abbreviate it. Oh,
you got some funny s there. And while you're saying that, move,
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you've got to be on your horse midway through that sentence.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh you got some funny s there? By, you got
some funny s.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I see a letter man gone gone compliment and move.
But you've got to start moving pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
On yeah, almost like in the last word yeah, or
even before then, you know, right right, maybe by the
end of the first word.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh you got some funny craft there, buddy. Yeah, God,
compliment and move and move quickly.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Maybe that's what I'm screwing up because I keep trying
that and I keep getting held up.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I keep thinking on out of here in my head
as I get that little confident, but I'm like, man,
all we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's Conway Show.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
If you're a New York Mets fan, you're probably a
little pissed off that Edwin d Is, the premier closer,
maybe the number one closer in all of baseball, has
left New York and said no, he was earning I
don't know, twenty thirty million dollars a year and said
(00:38):
he doesn't think that the Mets are going to win
the World Series, and so he split. And that's devastating
to a city and to a team. The Mets have
been trying to put together a World Series team for
a long time now. And when you're number one guy,
that's like, you know, if Otani had left the Dodgers
this year and went to the Mets, that'd be a huge,
(01:00):
huge blow to the Dodgers. And it's it's a devastating
move for the Mets. Now here's the question, Well, Edwin
dia is bring out his introduction music and will we
hear this at Dodger Stadium starting next year?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now pitting for the Dodgers, Edwin.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
All right, is he bringing Timmy trumpet with him to
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I guess we'll have to wait and see. And that
that song is great if he's pitching BB's and striking
guys out, you know, one after another after another after another.
But if he comes in and he's throwing pancakes that
go over the wall, it's a little embarrassing to play
that song for a guy that comes in is giving up,
(02:27):
you know, six earned runs and two innings. But the
Dodgers just got healthier with his Edwin Diaz and the
Dodgers are I just looked this up during the break,
No surprise, the absolute favorites to win the World Series
again next year. So it'll be a lot of fun
(02:47):
to be a Dodger fan again and watch win after
win after win and getting into the playoffs and trying
to get the third straight World Series. And this dog,
your team has already considered a dynasty, so it'll be
dynasty plus a mega dynasty. Yeah, it's gonna be a
(03:08):
lot of fun, A lot of fun. Just a local
guy in Los Angeles who was arrested and what was
he doing. He was painting crosswalks on the street. Because
the city refused to do it, and he thought these
kids crossing the street were in danger, so he went
out and painted crosswalks.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And what do they do? They arrested him for it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Guy trying to help kids stay alive has been arrested
for doing that.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, when we got out here this morning, we couldn't
tell the difference between what he painted and what the
city painted. You can see three crosswalks here marked and
the third one right there. Well, he didn't get to
finish it because that's when two LAPD officers arrived and
arrested him. Now we do have Jonathan Hill with us
this morning. Jonathan, will you come on by Hi there,
Good morning to you. You painted this, I mean, what
(04:00):
a pretty remarkable job. I can't tell the difference.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Oh, thanks, We do our best, We do our best
to be precise.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, guys taking matters into his own hands to help
out LA because LA can't.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Get it together.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Okay, So this is a legal though, and that's why
you were arrested over the weekend because this isn't city approved.
You didn't have the permits for it, So explain that
to me.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Yeah, So we've been protesting for safer streets and a
more effective government. We believe that traffic violence is a
public health crisis and trying to act with urgency to
get stuff done.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's exactly right. The man is one hundred percent right
so far.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We also think that these things are things that can
be done effectively by teams of volunteers, and we want
to empower people to step outside and get to know
their community.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
This guy should be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Enough with these career politicians. Have a guy gets his
hands dirty with paint, be our mayor or not our mayor.
You are mayor of the city of Los Angeles next
time around.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So did you explain that to the officers when they
came out over the weekend you were arrested, essentially saying
you're not changing the right place for drivers or pedestrians.
You're just making the crosswalk more visible.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Yeah, exactly, We're not changing the legal rights of drivers
or pedestrians. There is a crosswalk here, regardless of whether
it's marked under California Vehicle Code Section two seventy five.
I explained that to the officer. We have had interactions
with the police before where they've been friendly. They understand
we're working towards the shared goal of safer streets public safety.
And the officer in this case was doing his job
and he arrested me.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And what has been your response and what has been
the response rather from the city.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Well, you know, I've met with the city.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
How that go? How that go?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
When you meet with the city and go, hey, I'm
willing to spend my own time, my own paint, my
own materials and hard work to paint these crosswalks. We're
going to help the city of La. And what does
the city of VLA do. They arrest him. They arrest him.
They don't arrest the guy who you know, is peeling
one off while he's sleeping on Ventura Boulevard, or a
(05:57):
guy is taking a dump on receive a Boulevard. They
as the guy who's trying to help kids stay alive.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
There was a bit of a lack of a response,
which was frustrating, But that's all water under the bridge.
We want to work together, we want to do whatever
it takes to work fast to implement this goal of
safer streets.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And this is not the only location where you've done this.
Also in the Sawtel neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yes, We've painted all over Sawtel the Valley, Koreatown. Yes,
PVC is all city and all city crew.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, but you're not supposed to be painting this. It's
up to the city to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, but the city doesn't do it, so we got
to do it.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
So it's illegal because it's unauthorized. And it's unauthorized because
it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Go figure.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So the urgency of this.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Explain that to me?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
What have you seen and heard about a witness over
the last few years that you feel it's an urgency
to do this.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Yeah, traffic violence.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I saw an ad and it said that guns are
leading cause of death of kids in LA or in
the United States, and I realized that's not true. In
LA and LA cars are a leading clause of death
for kids.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And we hear that pretty important statement.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Through in LA and LA cars are leading death for kids.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And LA cars are the leading cause of death. And
this guy's trying to help these kids stay alive.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
LA cars are the leading cause of death for kids.
And we've adopted this sort of stagnancy where we think, oh,
it's part of our culture, it can't be changed.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
But it can't.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
I think people really want liveable, walkable streets. There's too
much needless trauma, there's too much violence. Yeah, just an
example forth in New Hampshire, we had this roundabout plan
back in twenty eleven. The city didn't do anything about it.
There was the stagnant plans and then this led to
a nine year old boy's death, nine year old and
dear gavarette and that was entirely preventable, and we want
to act fast before more that happens.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, how many what's the number?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How many kids have to die before this guy is
allowed to go out there and paint the crosswalks?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is it five? Is it fifty? Is it one hundred?
What's the number?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Where the City of La says, okay, that's enough dead kids.
Let's let this guy paint the sidewalk or the crosswalks.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
And background here alive.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I do want to just show you guys the markings
here on the street.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Now, how did.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You do this?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Because it looks perfect.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Yeah, So we have a whole operation. We use stencils,
masking tape, we use vals, warzone marking paints. It's a
contractor great asphalt paint.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, we have an operation.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well not to make light of this issus got of
expensive too. I imagine asphalt paint is very very expensive.
That's one that has the glitter in it, so it's reflective,
and it's thick, and it lasts a long time. It's
got to be expensive, hundreds of dollars a gallon.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, not to make light of the situation, but perhaps
the city can hire you to do this because clearly
you did an impeccable job. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Now,
of course this is still considered vandalism, and that's why
Jonathan was sighted.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, Jonathan was arrested for vandalism. Isn't that classic? Isn't
that great? Isn't that sort of a microcosm of the
city of La that somebody tries to help out and
they throw them in prison or in.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Jail for a misdemeanor. And he has a court date
set for January fifth. We've also reached out to the
City of La to get their response over the summer.
They did respond to this, essentially saying that they're willing
to work with him, but this should not be done illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Okay, this is odd, kind of weird timing here, but
I have jury duty on January fifth. That's my first
day I think of jury duty. Next year. I keep
postponing and postponing it, hoping, hoping, you know, the time,
and that I'm not around anymore, the city closes or
something that I don't have to do jury duty.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I've postponed it for the last time.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So the first week of January, I've got jury duty,
and I hope I'm sitting on this one because I'll
let this guy off with no fine, no arrest, and
give him a big award so you can buy more
paint and paint more crosswalks.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I might be on the jury that sees this case.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That would be great, And I'll tell you how I'm
voting right now, completely innocent, one hundred percent innocent, and
nothing will change my mind.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So hope I get on this case. Who would say guilty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right, yeah, who's gonna throw this guy away for ten years? Like,
ah ay, you should have known, you should have known.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's not good. He's guilty. Good night, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was a weird story coming out of Russia. You know,
you know, Porsche is a beautiful car. They designed these beautiful,
you know, vehicles. For some reason, Russia Porsches just stop working.
Suddenly stop working.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
What's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
We'll go back, we'll find out.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (10:43):
We've got some odd news here with Porsche in Russia.
They suddenly stop working to find out why this is
going on.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Pretty fancy car for it to just shut down.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Porsche owners in.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Russia woke up to find that their cars have been disabled.
Some Porscha owners hundreds, maybe thousands of cars in Russia junked, bricked,
won't turn on if I wanted car to break down
when I tried to use it, but they range Rover WHOA.
It all appears to be related to a satellite software
issue which was triggered remotely. It affects cars that have
(11:17):
a security system that dates back.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
To twenty twelve.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
If the computer is told the vehicle is stolen, it
does not operate. Now how this happened is some sort
of mystery. Many wondering if it could be a cyber attack.
Perhaps James Bond, I don't know. Porsia has stopped supporting
operations in Russia since the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Ah, I think we're on to what happened here.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Porsia has stopped supporting operations in Russia since the war
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right, so Russia just shut them all down.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Which means people affected by the issue have to just
figure it out on their own.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh, there's a good idea. One hundred thousand dollars for
a car and you're on your own.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
There's some indication that a manual reset might get the
cars back up and running, but pretty crazy stuff. Imagine
I leave your customer stranded like that does It's just
having a car that can be somehow remotely turned off
by somebody.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
That's kind of a lot of cars.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That's a lot of cars these days.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That is a lot of cars, all right, bell Air,
it's not just you know Resita Tarzana Andcino Sherman Oaks.
Now the burglars are going higher end with higher end
homes and bell Air home burglarized. And I think they
were inside the house for seven minutes. I know seven
minutes doesn't seem like a long time, but when people
(12:31):
are in your house, that is a lifetime.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Yah, Lady's a scary situation for any family to have
to go through. Now, they weren't home at the time,
but tell me they feel violated after sauspects strangers broke
into their bell Air home and stole a number of
valuable items tonight. Those suspects, they're still out there.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Night.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
Consider them the not so fresh bandits of bell Air.
Four mass men in dark hoodies seem to appear out
of nowhere, going through hedges to avoid the home surveillance
system without realizing multiple cameras we're tracking their every move.
One of the main climbs over a side gate, unlocks
the door and lets all the intruders through.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The back and party time. Time to get your party on.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Everybody's in now, let's get the valuables and get out.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Once inside, they use a laundry hamper from the home
and start throwing in items.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Oh so that you didn't even bring their own hamper.
They use the hamper inside the hall ano they're rip off.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
They also take a safe with them.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
This was very bold, just cameras all over the place.
In fact, one of their rooms that they entered shows cameras.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
The homeowners as that we not show their faces for
safety reasons.
Speaker 11 (13:43):
You feel violated. This is a home that you know
you're supposed to feel safe in.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
We worked hard to.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
Be able to provide a home for our children.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And not in La anymore.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
We don't ever want them to feel like it's not
safe to come home too.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Home burglary happened Friday night, just before seven o'clock. The
thieves get in and out in just seven minutes.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
They were really well disguised, but you can see some
of their mannerisms. You can hear their voice, and you
can also hear one of them say another person's name.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
One of their names is Devon.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh there's an odd name, right, is it?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Devin?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Devin?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I bet that's a fake name. I don't bet there's
there's anyone who's ever broken into a house named Devon Devin.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
No, no, no, no, no, no, that's a made up name.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Just they have made up names so people don't call
them by their real names so they don't get caught.
And Devin is definitely one of them, Devin Devin.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
They are seen leaving in a Dodge Challenger that was
waiting for them outside. When LAPD got there, the burglars
were long gone.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
This is when I think a lot of these sort
of rubbis start to happen. People are desperate for the holidays,
and I think the real lesson here is for everyone
to be aware that this could happen to them.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, if you go home tonight and you're not burglarized,
you got lucky. You got lucky today, because it might
be tomorrow, might be the next week. And I also
heard this from LAPD buddy of mine who is la
retired LAPD now, but he said, if somebody breaks into
your home, there's a fifty percent chance five zero fifty
(15:30):
percent chance that they're coming back in the next week
or two because they saw stuff inside that house that
they wanted and they didn't have the arm space or
the time to grab it. So they're coming back. Fifty percent,
that's a lot. That's a huge number.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
So for no one has been arrested about police believe
they are serial burglars.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Anyone with any information on the suspects.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Now, the one saving grace here is that they're not
coming in and killing everybody, you know, They're not beating
the hell out of mom or the kids or shooting
the dog at least all the time. So there's that,
But it's going to eventually get to that, you know,
because these guys are going to keep doing this and
then when they do run in to a guy or
(16:18):
a wife or a husband or kids, then there might
be some radical, radical changes in the way they break
into homes.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
You're encouraged to contact the LAPD re porting live tonight
in bel Air, Corlosalcevo katy LA five News.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, wild out there.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's the wild wild West out there, and you gotta
be careful. Gotta be careful. All these people have cameras,
they all have alarms, they all have doors that are
locked and triple locked and quadruple locked. They all have
a lot of them have these shades and shutters over
their doors, and people still get in.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Here's another tip for you.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
According to LAPD and I think Alan Hamilton and Detective
Chief Detective Alan Hamilton told me this, thirty eight percent
of burglaries in Los Angeles, the guy goes through an
open door, a door that's not locked, jiggles the handle,
it opens, Bang, He's into your life. So lock up,
(17:17):
get the cameras. I know sometimes they're disabled, but you've
got to do everything you can to protect your house
and your kids and your family because it is the
wild wild West. Every day we come in there's another
story like this.
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Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
How to select a Christmas tree comes a day late
and dollars short for me since we got ours on Sunday.
But maybe there's some tips in here that you could use.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
It's the classic Christmas tree debate, do you go real
or fake? Many folks can't imagine going with an artificial tree.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Here's a stat that may surprise you.
Speaker 13 (18:47):
More than eighty percent of American households use artificial trees.
Speaker 14 (18:51):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (18:51):
One reason is that the artificial trees of today look
amazingly real.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I get that, I got that, But eighty percent
I would never have guessed it was that.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
High House of Holidays in Queens, New York. They sell both.
This place is incredible.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Man.
Speaker 13 (19:04):
I gotta say, you're like the King of Christmas here,
well Santis to King of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Many trees here, comedy team, these two idiots night got them.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Might let's play it again.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
This place is incredible, man.
Speaker 13 (19:17):
I gotta say you're like the King of Christmas here.
Speaker 14 (19:20):
Well Santis to King of Christmas, Jesus Christ, as Ernie
Anderson would say, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
Many trees here come pre lit with lights and decorations.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
And these are led lights now, yes, so they don't
get hot.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
They don't get hot, they twinkle, they blank. This tree
alone has a nineteen hundred lights on it. Geez, just
stick the topping, you plug it in, and you sing
some songs.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
They don't come cheap, even this right here.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
You've got this one on sale for about five hundred bucks.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Mike's selling a lot.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
But if you buy a real tree every year it
kind of pays for itself for four or five years.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Trees are Trees are now real. Trees are between a
hundred and one hundred and fifty dollars a trade.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, I got one for sixty, so I must have
got his bargain.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All right, Your holidays are here, and you're probably gonna
go to a Christmas party or Christmas gathering and you're
gonna be stuck in a conversation and you're not gonna
know how to get out. You know, you got stuck
in with the conversation with a guy and you don't
know how to get out.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm gonna give you the biggest tip in the world.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
If my dad gave me this tip, I've passed it
on to people, and a lot of people use it.
Compliment and move, Compliment and move. You pat the guy
on the back, and you go, you got some funny
s there, and use the whole S word, just abbreviate it. Oh,
you got some funny s there. And while you're saying that, move,
(20:47):
you've got to be on your horse midway through that sentence.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh you got some funny s there? By, you got
some funny s.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I see a letter man gone gone compliment and move.
But you've got to start moving pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
On yeah, almost like in the last word yeah, or
even before then, you know, right right, maybe by the
end of the first word.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh you got some funny craft there, buddy. Yeah, God,
compliment and move and move quickly.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Maybe that's what I'm screwing up because I keep trying
that and I keep getting held up.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I keep thinking on out of here in my head
as I get that little confident, but I'm like, man,
all we gotta get out of here.
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