January 12, 2026 • 31 mins
Traffic grinds to a halt in El Monte after a suspicious device is discovered, setting off a major law enforcement response. Meanwhile, coyotes are turning up everywhere across L.A. — from Dodger Stadium to inside apartment buildings — raising concerns about just how bold they’ve become.
The conversation shifts to Hollywood, where new streetlights come with a shocking price tag of nearly a million dollars. Plus, controversy brews after a Starbucks employee draws a pig on a police officer’s cup, and alarming reports reveal more than 100 LAFD fire trucks, engines, and ambulances are out of service and in need of repair. The show wraps with crime in the San Fernando Valley, where two suspects are arrested in a robbery spree targeting multiple 7-Eleven stores.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k if.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app. Ding dong with you. I don't know.
Maybe I have not ding donged you today, but I'm
doing that now. Yes, yes, yes, yes, the Rams have
moved on. Thank god. I would have been in a
miserable mood if the Rams went to Carolina and lost,
(00:25):
if they lose to Chicago. I like the Bears. I
don't mind that. I don't like Seattle. I don't like Sarrancisco.
I don't mind if the Denvers win the Super Bowl,
like Denver, Chicago Steelers, Rams, those old teams. I sort
of like that. But if and Seattle's not even bad,
(00:46):
I don't mind Seattle. But Sarrancisco, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.
I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
All right, we have breaking news, and then we'll talk
about the street. But breaking news, the bomb squad with
a suspicious package. Let's find out how this is affecting
traffic and who's gotten caught in this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The vehicle is pulling things out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
At some it's el Monte.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
The vehicle is pulling.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Things out of it at some point or at one
point they did find the device. A Sheriff's Bonds squad
personnel came over and got that box out. As I
zoom in here to our live shot here, you can
see that small box right in the center of your screen.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's the device in question.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
They did a couple of X rays on it, and
now it appears that they might try to explode the
device here in this dumpster container area. It looks like
they're setting up to do that. You can see the
robot making a positioning itself in that area right now.
But for now, that device they are unclear. It's unclear
if that device is active or not. But out of
(01:50):
an abundance of caution, they might be exploding that device.
But for now, Value Boulevard remains shut down. Let me
show you real quick to back up here on Value
Boulevard from the six oh five freeway, it is a mess.
So if you're driving this way, avoid Valley Boulevard round
right now west of the six oh five freeway. That's
the latest overhead up in sky five off.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
All right west of the six oh five is all
banged up on Valley. If you got caught up on Valley,
you got off the six oh five and went west
or basically northwest. Then you are all the way to
Garvey Street. You are in solid traffic as a matter
of fact. Now that's even before then, uh Derfee Durfy
(02:29):
Street is that street out there? I'm unfamiliar with Durfy Street.
That is bad vibes, tremendous bad vibes out there. So
how is that affecting traffic around that? Around the Freeway's
angel out there now? Mont to anything?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Yeah, the ten is really busy. He found all the
way from the seven to ten to almost the fifty seven.
And also Rosemead Boulevard's looking super busy right now as well,
especially when you come up on Valley Boulevard. Ride in
that stretch all the way to Lower as you said,
looks pretty pretty slammed in there, and Valley Valley's just solid,
(03:11):
especially the eastbound side as you continue out towards Santa
Anita Avenue. It's a huge mess right now.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, all yeah, appreciate the the update.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah you got it, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
All right. Coyotes are everywhere, and I even saw one
today on videotape. I wasn't there. Are cruising around Dodger Stadium.
A coyote got into Dodger Stadium and is cruising around
the boxes and the expensive seeds, the cheap seeds, just
walking around looking for like a hot dog or something.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
You think that you've seen more coyotes popping up recently,
you are not alone. We've heard from several KETLA five
viewers who say they've seen them in places they really
never expected, and they tell us they're getting more and
more aggressive. Coyotes are being spotted more often across southern California,
and residents say the animals are getting closer and more aggressive.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Everyone's having coyote problems.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Ring doorbell and security camera videos shows coyotes prowling through backyards,
climbing onto people's roofs, and even wandering inside an apartment building.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I see him every day in Burma. Every day I
drive home, I see one, two, three, four five coyotes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
They can be aggressive, they're not shy.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You may remember this video showing a coyote attack a
young girl on the front lawn of her home in
Woodland Hills and try to drag her away.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
How scary is that coyote grabs your daughter and tries
to drag her away, oh Bobo.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
In just last year, a six year old boy was
attacked during his sister's softball game in Carson.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What the hell wildlife experts.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Say this increase comes is coyote mating season gets underway.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The coyotes are more active, and when they're more active,
they require more food, so they're out hunting more.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Coyotes can row miles in search of food and a mate,
often moving through residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, I've noticed I've seen a lot of coyotes lately,
and I noticed I haven't seen any skunks in about
four months. And we used to have a huge skunk
problem in Burbank every night, having to get up in
the middle of the night shut the window because it smelled.
The entire house would would reek with these skunk spraying.
(05:22):
But since these coyotes been around gone, I don't know
whether they killed them or just ran them off scared
them off, but there are none anymore.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
In Wittier, coyotes killed a woman's husky just steps away
from her home.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Called her to come back in the house. And I
saw her like lay on the ground, and I said
on the grass, and I said camera Gopya, come here,
come here, came here, and she didn't move, and I thought,
that's the name of the dog camera. Gopya, come here,
come here, GPY camera. Gopya, come here, come here, came here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Maybe that's the name of the dog camer Glopia camer
Camier came.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Here camera Glapia, come here, come here, came here. Yeah,
and she didn't move, and I thought that was strange.
And the one I came out, I was horrified she
was dead, she says.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Coyote odd Coyotes are vicious.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
She says coyotes now appear almost every night on her
security cameras and no longer fear people.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
They're just hiding in our bushes here, and people are
not even aware of it. So when they walk their dogs,
a lot of times they just come out and they'll
just grab the dogs.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Experts say feeding wildlife and leaving pet food or water
outside makes coyotes lose their natural fear.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
They approach people expecting food.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
When they don't get food, they bite that person.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh no, you gotta be careful, Okay. I was unable
to download this story because I screwed up and so
had We had to reload it. But when we come
back to Hollywood street lights. LA City Council is doing
something about the Hollywood street lights and we will have
that story, I promise you when we come back.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six Fortylly.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is about to get a lot brighter. They found some money.
LA City Council is putting a couple bucks into Hollywood
street lights. Let's find out where and how many are
going to be illuminated again, and hopefully it'll make the
(07:21):
area safer.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
Nothing to laugh about, because these neighbors here say they
are just frustrated because they've been living with us for months.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
On them, they say, darkness.
Speaker 11 (07:29):
In their neighborhood's right in the very heart of Hollywood,
of all places. Mikey take us into the story, will you.
This is a very busy Franklin ab. We're just on
the east side of the Hollywood Freeway, the one oh
one and marl As you say, look how dark it
is here this street, one, the street after another, darkness all.
There's lots of street lights here, but they're not working.
They're all dark. To the video, we go check it,
driving down the next block over North Wilton Place. The
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only lights you see here the headlights coming at us
and the apartments on both sides that are lit up.
And then you really see a lot of folks here.
They're out walking their dogs in the darkness, but they
have to use flashlights to walk along the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Just it's a good idea to bring a flashlight anyway,
so cars can see you.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
To walk along the sidewalk, just to see where they're going.
As the city in many neighborhoods over here in Hollywood
reeling with the lack of their broken damage street lights.
A city out today admitting that more than half sixty
percent of their street lights are down just because they
need routine maintenance.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And then you have that continuing problem with the wire.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What kind of city do we live in, or I
should say, do you live in where when a street
light's out, they don't have the money to fix it.
You pay your property tax, you pay your sales tax,
your state tax, your income tax, your car fees, your
registration fees, you pay all of that on time. And
(08:45):
Los Angeles doesn't have money to fix a street light.
I'll bet if you went to Claremont tonight that you
could not find one street light that was out. I'll
bet if you drove around Burbank you'd be hard pressed
to find one street light that wasn't working. As atter
of fact, I'm gonna do that tonight. I'm gonna take
(09:06):
video and I'm gonna try to find a street light
in Burbank that's not working and I'll check ir okay,
And I'm hmm. I was gonna say, Steph, who should
check Hawthorn? But I wouldn't do that either. When I
went looking for him, they were all out. All the
street lights were out. That's why scared to death walk
around trying to find this guy. You know, people are
(09:28):
smoking weed on the corner with a boom box and
a boom box and I'm like, hey, having a shoulder,
have you seen my friend staff O? Classic dam But
there's street lights out all around you too. Yeah, dark
as hell those streets.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
And then you had that continuing problem with the wire
theft the copper wire a lot of these street lights.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And make him solar, make the street lights solar, so
they steal.
Speaker 11 (09:52):
The copper wire, damage because the wiring ripped right out
of them, mostly by the homeless.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The city saying that I mostly by the home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Right out of them, mostly by the homeless, mostly.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
By the homeless. Some CEOs of fortune five hundred companies, yeah,
but mostly the homeless. Some millionaires, you know, some tech billionaires,
some guys were in AI, but mostly the homeless.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Right out of the mostly by the homeless.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
The city saying last year was a record amount of
copper wire stolen citywide, adding.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
To the problem. And then you talk to the folks
who have to put up.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
With this all the darkness, and they say it's a
public safety issue, right, And it just keeps going on.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Week and month and month after month. Listen, plus three
or four weeks.
Speaker 12 (10:37):
It's been often it's been like this dark.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I was, it's pitch dark.
Speaker 12 (10:41):
Though it's pitch dark, and I thought it was the
city was planning some kind of rationing. That was my assumption.
But it's continuing, so I thought they're rationing. Was planning
some kind of rationing, that was my assumption. But it's continuing,
so I thought they're rushing too much.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, you know where that goes on, bag Dad,
that's where they ration electricity. Anywhere else it goes on
North Korea, not in Hollywood. Those street lights are beyond
every night from sunset to sun rise every night.
Speaker 12 (11:15):
But it's continuing, so I thought they're rushing too much.
Speaker 11 (11:18):
You know, they're going to put a million dollars in
the finally fix some of the lighting.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They said, here, a million dollars. How many lights is
that going to fix? Ten?
Speaker 12 (11:26):
Well, it's goodness. A few weeks ago it was like
this and I was attacked by a homeless man with
an iron pipe and he hit my knee. I thought
I was crippled, but it just hit the cart to
list but that happened, But it was dark like that.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It was dark like this.
Speaker 12 (11:39):
It came out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of course I couldn't see it.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
So it was a lot more than just getting the
lights on for people driving.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
And it's the safe a matter of safety.
Speaker 11 (11:46):
Right now, you're looking live and as he says, it's
a matter of safety.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
One of the many street lights.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Here, Mike's showing you look, it's dark, looks perfectly fine,
but they're just not working. Either they're damage, they need repairs,
or they're broken. City says, with this million dollars, earmark
this area Marls, specifically Hollywood, they're going to get a
lot of these blocks up lit again.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We'll just have to see.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
As the one Roberta, one of the neighbors, was telling us,
he says, it sounds good they're putting some money into it,
but just how long is it going to take?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay on high alert. I
don't think you'll notice the difference at all.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
And I'm curious, since you've been out there for hours now,
obviously since the sun has set, have you what's it
been like?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have you witnessed any close calls?
Speaker 11 (12:27):
We've actually seen and it's kind of scary, you know,
as Mikey will give you a look down some of
these the sidewalks, you'd see, you know, folks going out
and to be frank with you, a lot of young
ladies going out and Hollywood are going out to have
fun on a Friday night.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Like young ladies do you know they go out on
a Friday night and have fun those young ladies.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
To be frank with you, a lot of young ladies
going out and Hollywood are going out to have fun
on a Friday night. And they be walking down these
sidewalks and all of a sudden, you see some guy
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Maybe at the metal pipe or an iron pipe. You know,
maybe down the street, you know, seeing some near dow.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well, you know, maybe about three four, five six feet
behind walking behind them in total darkness, and you got
to think, you know, I actually kind of say a prayer,
and you say, just a hope they're going to be safe,
because it's that threatening.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Over in this area is where that bus.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Stop was that we were going to show you at
ten o'clock tonight in the next half hour in our story,
And the folks were waiting in that bus stop waiting
for the bus to come by in total darkness. So
again you gotta wonder, as a lot of folks have
been saying here, it's really come down to a matter
of public safety.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now, where are we in life where Hollywood is a
big tourist attraction and they're just simply looking for the
street lights, the effing street lights to be on. That's
a really simple ask for the city council. You know,
they're not asking for free apartments or free cars or
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free cell phones. They just say, can you turn the
street lights on? So maybe we can't get we won't
be killed by the next CEO that walks behind that is.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Scary to see.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
And you do say a prayer when you see a
scene like.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That play out.
Speaker 12 (14:04):
Hope it ends well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, ed, thank you so much. There he goes,
all right, well, we'll see how that works out. A
million dollars probably fixed, I don't know, maybe twenty street lights,
maybe thirty maximum And what is that going to do.
They'll just steal the copper wiring again and they'll go
dark again. So until they can put solar in there
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and those led lights, it's over. And they're not going
to do that, And so you're going to have to
decide is La worth living in when they can't give
you the simplest service in the world turn the lights on.
They can't do that. Unreal.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
A Los Angeles County Sheriff, I guess a deputy, not
the sheriff, went to Starbucks. You know Starbucks. They write
on the c up, you know, good choice, have fun,
see you later, smiley face, thumbs up, exclamation point. They're
told to put something on the cup, to write something
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on the cup, and somebody drew a picture of a pig.
And gave it to a police officer, and he was
saying he came up with some excuse. He was just
doing John Pork or Johnny Pork, which is a meme
that's going around, and he said he didn't mean to
do that. But Starbucks, I guess fired this cat over it.
(15:35):
So let's find out where this happened here.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is speaking out after
a Starbucks for reesa served one of its deputies a
cup of coffee with a hand drawn image of a
pig on it. The incident happened Friday at a Starbucks
in Norwalk, in the middle of the deputy's sixteen hour shift.
He says he found the hand drawn pig a quote
discouraging and disrespectful. Sheriff's officials also called the in an
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extremely offensive and unacceptable. Speaking to KTLA, a Starbucks spokesperson
condemn the employee's actions, but says the drawing appears to
be a popular meme not associated with law enforcement. The
store as manager says the incident is now under investigation.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
All right, and I know the Starbucks where this happened.
If it's the one, I think it's on I think
it's on Firestone or what. I still call it Manchester
because I'm old school, but I think it was Firestone
and Pioneer. Yeah, I think that's the Starbucks on Pioneer. Yeah,
(16:36):
Pioneer and Firestone, or as I call it, Manchester. You know,
I'm old school. Manchester used to be the name of
that street from the Ocean all the way practically to
Orange County. And then when they opened up Firestone Tire Company,
they renamed it after Firestone because that was the first
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big tire company that was open here since you know,
west of Ohio. I think they were only big factory
was in Ohio. And they opened up a Firestone tire
manufacturing company here and they renamed Manchester Firestone. But I
know that whole area. I used to drive a limousine
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and one of the companies that I worked for was
right in that neighborhood. You know, it's got your TJ Max.
There's the Starbucks nearby. I'm sorry, there's a Costco nearby.
It's got all the you know, essentials for people like
me who love to you know, pay retail for everything.
But that's a cool area. That drive through Starbucks there
(17:38):
and that lad has been dismissed. Maybe it was mistake,
I don't know, but companies aren't are so quick to
act now when something like this happens. They just wanted
to go away. Do you remember the Hampton It was
the Hampton in I think it was in Illinois or
Minnesota where I think I think it was outside Chicago, Illinois,
(18:03):
and they said, if you're a member of ICE that
they canceled your reservation and you're no longer welcome at
the hotel. It was called Hampton Inn and the Hampton
Hampton Inns are owned by the Hiltons, the Hilton family
and the Hilton family. They're closed, they're Republican, they're close
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with President Trump. And two days after that happened, what
did you see? You saw a crane outside of the
Hampton Inn taking that sign down and told the guy
who owns that it was owned an operator hotel, not
part it was part of the Hilton chain, but that
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particular hotel was owned by a couple and they used
the Hampton Inn as as their you know, syndicated name
or whatever. So the Hilton rented a crane went to
that Hampton end and took that sign down and said
you're on your own. Companies are very very quick to
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act when something like this happens. They don't want it
to linger, and they don't want any bad publicity, especially
when it comes to law enforcement. The amount of law
enforcement that goes to that Starbucks and Starbucks in California
is through the roof. They love when cops come in
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because people behave when the cops are in the store.
And the last thing what they want to do is
to piss off cops and firemen and paramedics. And so
as soon as that happened, they let the lad go.
I don't know where he went, but that is not
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going to happen at Starbucks, all right. LA Fire Department
fired trucks. More than one hundred fire trucks with La
Fire Department are and ambulances we're out of service. You
would think a year after the fire Department took all
that heat that they would do everything they can to
take any kind of stink off of them.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Last year we first showed you what's called the boneyard.
It's the maintenances facility for the.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
La Fire Department.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
One city council member told us some vehicles sat there
so long weed would actually grow underneath the tires.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
Well, since then we wanted to see where the fleet
stands by looking at the raw numbers.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Okay, let's take a look at the boneyard one year
after we discovered Let's see if the fire department put
these put these engines back into service.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Just crazy hot spots everywhere.
Speaker 13 (20:47):
As the Palancy's fire burned out of control under hurricane
force wins, some people chose to stay in fight.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Your house is still standing, so is fine.
Speaker 13 (20:56):
Court Wagner picked up garden hoses to take a stand
against the flames himself.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I had all hoses running at every house here, six hoses.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Running two of that house, one two, three, four seven total.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
Wow, why did you choose to pick up your garden homes?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We're on our own guys, running his own fire department.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
Out there, you were looking at dozens of LAFD apparatus.
Last year, we obtained a public records that showed more
than one hundred Lacit Fire Department trucks, engines, and ambulances
had been out of service and needing repair.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Wait how many?
Speaker 13 (21:30):
We obtained a public records that showed more than one
hundred Lacit Fire Department trucks, engines and ambulances had been
out of service and needing repair. Through a records request,
we recently got new data on the department's fleet.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Okay, so last year one hundred we're out of service, engines, trucks,
Ambulancell's find out if they've corrected that.
Speaker 13 (21:50):
On January seventh of last year, the day the Palisades
fire broke out, there were two hundred fifty two fire
engines and trucks or heavy apparatus available to respond to calls,
and two hundred and seventeen ambulances in the total fleet.
But according to LAFD data last month, the heavy apparatus
count was down to two forty and ambulances two oh seven,
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drops of nearly five percent in both categories.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It got worse. It's worse than it was last year.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I mean emore.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
In November, Chief at Jimmie Moore was sworn in as
the new head of the departments following leadership changes brought
on by the handling of the Palisades fire. More acknowledges
the department needs more equipment, but says he has to
manage within his means while the city faces a budget
crisis following.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Why is La always in a budget crisis? I know
they have lawsuits and the police department's expensive, fire department's expensive,
But how do other cities do it? How do other
cities manage the fire department, manage the police department, keep
the street lights on? If I running the city of La,
(23:02):
I would take my top fifty guys and gals and
let them walk around Burbank for a week, for two
weeks and interview the people who run Burbank. How does
Burbank do it? All the street lights are on, all
the fire trucks are working, all the cops are getting paid,
and there's no crisis. How is that possible? That La,
(23:24):
with that tax base and those million dollar homes that
are everywhere. You know, some people paying one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year in property tax and they
can't keep the street lights on.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Following one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in
California history, the department says it has received three new
fire engines, with three more expected to arrive in the
next few weeks. We wanted to ask the chief why.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Right now if fire engine's about a two year weight,
when we order a fire engine.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
He also says some of the fire engines and trucks
in the department's aging fleet are so old original ports
are impossible to find. We're putting about forty on the average,
forty thousand miles a year on a fire engine.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Okay, that's not you know, a billions. It seems reasonable.
Forty thousand miles a year. Most people drive twenty twenty
five thousand.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The average person drives fourteen thousand miles a year.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I don't know, not in LA. I think if you
live in LA or Orange County, I know Bellio, you
drive one hundred miles a day, So that's four or
five hundred miles a week. Two thousand, you're driving twenty
four thousand miles to and from work. I mean that
has nothing to do with weekend or trips or anything
you might take. Yeah, so you're probably putting thirty thousand miles. Yes,
(24:45):
on the car. Yes, you're like a fire engine. You
drive like a fire truck. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
The union that represents firefighters says the problem is evident
at this fire station bay in South LA and many
others because of previous department.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Easily, LA's got to get it together at some point,
either they got to change management or the mayor or
the people that run the city of La. They're not
doing their job. They can't keep the street lights on,
the fire trucks aren't rolling, the ambulances are stock. They're
not doing a great job. And if you're running a
company in La, the City of La is a big company,
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you would change management if they weren't doing great job.
Look at the NFL. I think nine or ten coaches
were fired because they weren't winning. Well, La is not winning.
They need new management and you better get it quick
before this thing spirals and property values go in the
toilet and that vicious circle starts. And that's already starting
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to happen. So if you live in La, you got
a voice. You got it voice, you got to use it.
You've got to be loud and make changes because you're
going to lose your property value if you don't.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Crime Caught Crime was thwarted when suspects barricade themselves inside
a handbag store. Irvine cops said they caught them pretty quickly.
Really a bad place to do crime Irvine, a lot
of cops and great equipment, state of the art equipment.
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They have very little to do because it is so
safe that if you go down to Irvine to commit crimes,
you're going to get caught. I've been saying this for
twenty five years on the radio, twenty five years. Don't
go to Irvine and create mischief or steal. They'll catch
you and they'll throw you in jail for literally since
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nineteen ninety six. Okay, so this December, it'll be thirty years.
And yet people still do it all the time, and
guess what, they get caught. Here's another example of guys
that didn't listen to meals it's an ending.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
Most store owners don't usually get the crooks caught and
all of the merchandise returned.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Wow, and where was this Irvine. Yeah, they didn't listen
to me. Don't steal s in Irvine. Don't steal crap
in Irvine. You're gonna get caught returned.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
And for a business that's been hit three times in
the last several months, they are just so thankful for
the quick response from police.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Come out with your hands up all the way out, all.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The way out, or you're gonna get it. I haven't
heard that in a long time. Come out of your
hands up. It's like an old Western Come.
Speaker 15 (27:34):
Out with your hands up all the way out, all
the way out, or you're gonna get there.
Speaker 14 (27:37):
In the age of organized crime and massive smash and grabs,
the crooks in this case not able to get away.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It was like a drama.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You would have thought that came from a movie.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
But it was real.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
Like Tammy Fan, the CEO of Luxe d Jore, a
luxury handbag store, praising Irvine PD's immediate response after a
security guard notice something suspicious night on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
They roamed around and then they knew exactly which bags
to go go steal.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
With one hundred thousand dollars worth of luxury items in hand,
you see them peek out the back door.
Speaker 15 (28:13):
These guys thought they were getting to clean get away,
and as they start to exit, they realized that they
had been discovered.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Irvine PD had the buildings surrounded within minutes and then
called in an I in the sky a drone.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
There you go. You got drones, you got helicopters and
a lot of cops with nothing to do, and you're
gonna steal crap and Irvine, how dumb are you?
Speaker 14 (28:35):
From their neighbors.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
At the time, we did not have an operator on duty,
so yeah, we phoned a friend, which was the Coast
Mason Police Department.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
The two suspects were treated inside hiding out for hours.
Then it was time to let the dogs out.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, who let the dogs out? They got a lot
of dogs in Irvine too. They'll come in and bite you.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
To let the dogs out right out.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
All he could hear on the intercom was surrender now,
or we're releasing the dogs, and the dogs will bite.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
And once the dog bites you. I learned this from
a friend of mine who used to be the bomb
Squab Gouy named Johnny Hansen, Once the dog bites onto you,
it's almost impossible even for the trainer or the dog's
handler to get that dog off you. They've got to
really struggle to get that dog off you. It really
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will bite and chew and break your arm and break
your bust your veins. It really does a lot of damage.
And while that dog is flipping his head around, more
damage is being done. And sometimes you may lose a
finger or an arm, or even a leg or a
foot over what handbags. That's worth it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Two And I'm.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Over there like, oh, I hope they release it.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
That's great. She said that out loud.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm over there like, oh, I hope they released it.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I hope they released the dogs. That's class.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I hope they release.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
Now the crooks are eventually caught in cuffed or vine.
PD says this case should send a strong message.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's not gonna send a message. I've been saying for
thirty years. Don't commit crimes. And a lot of Orange
County they'll nail you. Newport's another one data point, san Clementing.
Is that enough? Is that enough? All those cities down there,
they have a lot of cops, say to the art equipment, drones, helicopters,
cameras everywhere, and they'll nail you.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect
to go to jail.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Okay. I've been saying that for thirty years, thirty years,
and people don't listen to me. I don't know if
this is guy the chief or this guy's a cop.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect
to go to jail.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Okay. Keep that in mind, criminals, you know you gotta
be smart.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect to.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Go to jail.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
Lux du Jour has been a target with break ins
happening in October and just.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It definitely disturbs your peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, all right, I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Andy Reesmeier is coming up next right here with Ronner
and the whole team on KFI AM six forty Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can
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It's k if.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am sixty and you're listening to the Conway Show
on demand on.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
The iHeartRadio app. Ding dong with you. I don't know.
Maybe I have not ding donged you today, but I'm
doing that now. Yes, yes, yes, yes, the Rams have
moved on. Thank god. I would have been in a
miserable mood if the Rams went to Carolina and lost,
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if they lose to Chicago. I like the Bears. I
don't mind that. I don't like Seattle. I don't like Sarrancisco.
I don't mind if the Denvers win the Super Bowl,
like Denver, Chicago Steelers, Rams, those old teams. I sort
of like that. But if and Seattle's not even bad,
(00:46):
I don't mind Seattle. But Sarrancisco, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.
I can't do that.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
All right, we have breaking news, and then we'll talk
about the street. But breaking news, the bomb squad with
a suspicious package. Let's find out how this is affecting
traffic and who's gotten caught in this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The vehicle is pulling things out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
At some it's el Monte.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
The vehicle is pulling.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Things out of it at some point or at one
point they did find the device. A Sheriff's Bonds squad
personnel came over and got that box out. As I
zoom in here to our live shot here, you can
see that small box right in the center of your screen.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's the device in question.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
They did a couple of X rays on it, and
now it appears that they might try to explode the
device here in this dumpster container area. It looks like
they're setting up to do that. You can see the
robot making a positioning itself in that area right now.
But for now, that device they are unclear. It's unclear
if that device is active or not. But out of
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an abundance of caution, they might be exploding that device.
But for now, Value Boulevard remains shut down. Let me
show you real quick to back up here on Value
Boulevard from the six oh five freeway, it is a mess.
So if you're driving this way, avoid Valley Boulevard round
right now west of the six oh five freeway. That's
the latest overhead up in sky five off.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
All right west of the six oh five is all
banged up on Valley. If you got caught up on Valley,
you got off the six oh five and went west
or basically northwest. Then you are all the way to
Garvey Street. You are in solid traffic as a matter
of fact. Now that's even before then, uh Derfee Durfy
(02:29):
Street is that street out there? I'm unfamiliar with Durfy Street.
That is bad vibes, tremendous bad vibes out there. So
how is that affecting traffic around that? Around the Freeway's
angel out there now? Mont to anything?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Yeah, the ten is really busy. He found all the
way from the seven to ten to almost the fifty seven.
And also Rosemead Boulevard's looking super busy right now as well,
especially when you come up on Valley Boulevard. Ride in
that stretch all the way to Lower as you said,
looks pretty pretty slammed in there, and Valley Valley's just solid,
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especially the eastbound side as you continue out towards Santa
Anita Avenue. It's a huge mess right now.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, all yeah, appreciate the the update.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah you got it, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
All right. Coyotes are everywhere, and I even saw one
today on videotape. I wasn't there. Are cruising around Dodger Stadium.
A coyote got into Dodger Stadium and is cruising around
the boxes and the expensive seeds, the cheap seeds, just
walking around looking for like a hot dog or something.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
You think that you've seen more coyotes popping up recently,
you are not alone. We've heard from several KETLA five
viewers who say they've seen them in places they really
never expected, and they tell us they're getting more and
more aggressive. Coyotes are being spotted more often across southern California,
and residents say the animals are getting closer and more aggressive.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Everyone's having coyote problems.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Ring doorbell and security camera videos shows coyotes prowling through backyards,
climbing onto people's roofs, and even wandering inside an apartment building.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I see him every day in Burma. Every day I
drive home, I see one, two, three, four five coyotes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
They can be aggressive, they're not shy.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
You may remember this video showing a coyote attack a
young girl on the front lawn of her home in
Woodland Hills and try to drag her away.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
How scary is that coyote grabs your daughter and tries
to drag her away, oh Bobo.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
In just last year, a six year old boy was
attacked during his sister's softball game in Carson.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What the hell wildlife experts.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
Say this increase comes is coyote mating season gets underway.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The coyotes are more active, and when they're more active,
they require more food, so they're out hunting more.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Coyotes can row miles in search of food and a mate,
often moving through residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know, I've noticed I've seen a lot of coyotes lately,
and I noticed I haven't seen any skunks in about
four months. And we used to have a huge skunk
problem in Burbank every night, having to get up in
the middle of the night shut the window because it smelled.
The entire house would would reek with these skunk spraying.
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But since these coyotes been around gone, I don't know
whether they killed them or just ran them off scared
them off, but there are none anymore.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
In Wittier, coyotes killed a woman's husky just steps away
from her home.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Called her to come back in the house. And I
saw her like lay on the ground, and I said
on the grass, and I said camera Gopya, come here,
come here, came here, and she didn't move, and I thought,
that's the name of the dog camera. Gopya, come here,
come here, GPY camera. Gopya, come here, come here, came here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Maybe that's the name of the dog camer Glopia camer
Camier came.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Here camera Glapia, come here, come here, came here. Yeah,
and she didn't move, and I thought that was strange.
And the one I came out, I was horrified she
was dead, she says.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Coyote odd Coyotes are vicious.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
She says coyotes now appear almost every night on her
security cameras and no longer fear people.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
They're just hiding in our bushes here, and people are
not even aware of it. So when they walk their dogs,
a lot of times they just come out and they'll
just grab the dogs.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Experts say feeding wildlife and leaving pet food or water
outside makes coyotes lose their natural fear.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
They approach people expecting food.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
When they don't get food, they bite that person.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh no, you gotta be careful, Okay. I was unable
to download this story because I screwed up and so
had We had to reload it. But when we come
back to Hollywood street lights. LA City Council is doing
something about the Hollywood street lights and we will have
that story, I promise you when we come back.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six Fortylly.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is about to get a lot brighter. They found some money.
LA City Council is putting a couple bucks into Hollywood
street lights. Let's find out where and how many are
going to be illuminated again, and hopefully it'll make the
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area safer.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
Nothing to laugh about, because these neighbors here say they
are just frustrated because they've been living with us for months.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
On them, they say, darkness.
Speaker 11 (07:29):
In their neighborhood's right in the very heart of Hollywood,
of all places. Mikey take us into the story, will you.
This is a very busy Franklin ab. We're just on
the east side of the Hollywood Freeway, the one oh
one and marl As you say, look how dark it
is here this street, one, the street after another, darkness all.
There's lots of street lights here, but they're not working.
They're all dark. To the video, we go check it,
driving down the next block over North Wilton Place. The
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only lights you see here the headlights coming at us
and the apartments on both sides that are lit up.
And then you really see a lot of folks here.
They're out walking their dogs in the darkness, but they
have to use flashlights to walk along the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Just it's a good idea to bring a flashlight anyway,
so cars can see you.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
To walk along the sidewalk, just to see where they're going.
As the city in many neighborhoods over here in Hollywood
reeling with the lack of their broken damage street lights.
A city out today admitting that more than half sixty
percent of their street lights are down just because they
need routine maintenance.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And then you have that continuing problem with the wire.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What kind of city do we live in, or I
should say, do you live in where when a street
light's out, they don't have the money to fix it.
You pay your property tax, you pay your sales tax,
your state tax, your income tax, your car fees, your
registration fees, you pay all of that on time. And
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Los Angeles doesn't have money to fix a street light.
I'll bet if you went to Claremont tonight that you
could not find one street light that was out. I'll
bet if you drove around Burbank you'd be hard pressed
to find one street light that wasn't working. As atter
of fact, I'm gonna do that tonight. I'm gonna take
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video and I'm gonna try to find a street light
in Burbank that's not working and I'll check ir okay,
And I'm hmm. I was gonna say, Steph, who should
check Hawthorn? But I wouldn't do that either. When I
went looking for him, they were all out. All the
street lights were out. That's why scared to death walk
around trying to find this guy. You know, people are
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smoking weed on the corner with a boom box and
a boom box and I'm like, hey, having a shoulder,
have you seen my friend staff O? Classic dam But
there's street lights out all around you too. Yeah, dark
as hell those streets.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
And then you had that continuing problem with the wire
theft the copper wire a lot of these street lights.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And make him solar, make the street lights solar, so
they steal.
Speaker 11 (09:52):
The copper wire, damage because the wiring ripped right out
of them, mostly by the homeless.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The city saying that I mostly by the home.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Right out of them, mostly by the homeless, mostly.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
By the homeless. Some CEOs of fortune five hundred companies, yeah,
but mostly the homeless. Some millionaires, you know, some tech billionaires,
some guys were in AI, but mostly the homeless.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Right out of the mostly by the homeless.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
The city saying last year was a record amount of
copper wire stolen citywide, adding.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
To the problem. And then you talk to the folks
who have to put up.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
With this all the darkness, and they say it's a
public safety issue, right, And it just keeps going on.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Week and month and month after month. Listen, plus three
or four weeks.
Speaker 12 (10:37):
It's been often it's been like this dark.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And I was, it's pitch dark.
Speaker 12 (10:41):
Though it's pitch dark, and I thought it was the
city was planning some kind of rationing. That was my assumption.
But it's continuing, so I thought they're rationing. Was planning
some kind of rationing, that was my assumption. But it's continuing,
so I thought they're rushing too much.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, you know where that goes on, bag Dad,
that's where they ration electricity. Anywhere else it goes on
North Korea, not in Hollywood. Those street lights are beyond
every night from sunset to sun rise every night.
Speaker 12 (11:15):
But it's continuing, so I thought they're rushing too much.
Speaker 11 (11:18):
You know, they're going to put a million dollars in
the finally fix some of the lighting.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
They said, here, a million dollars. How many lights is
that going to fix? Ten?
Speaker 12 (11:26):
Well, it's goodness. A few weeks ago it was like
this and I was attacked by a homeless man with
an iron pipe and he hit my knee. I thought
I was crippled, but it just hit the cart to
list but that happened, But it was dark like that.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It was dark like this.
Speaker 12 (11:39):
It came out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Of course I couldn't see it.
Speaker 11 (11:41):
So it was a lot more than just getting the
lights on for people driving.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
And it's the safe a matter of safety.
Speaker 11 (11:46):
Right now, you're looking live and as he says, it's
a matter of safety.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
One of the many street lights.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Here, Mike's showing you look, it's dark, looks perfectly fine,
but they're just not working. Either they're damage, they need repairs,
or they're broken. City says, with this million dollars, earmark
this area Marls, specifically Hollywood, they're going to get a
lot of these blocks up lit again.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
We'll just have to see.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
As the one Roberta, one of the neighbors, was telling us,
he says, it sounds good they're putting some money into it,
but just how long is it going to take?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay on high alert. I
don't think you'll notice the difference at all.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
And I'm curious, since you've been out there for hours now,
obviously since the sun has set, have you what's it
been like?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have you witnessed any close calls?
Speaker 11 (12:27):
We've actually seen and it's kind of scary, you know,
as Mikey will give you a look down some of
these the sidewalks, you'd see, you know, folks going out
and to be frank with you, a lot of young
ladies going out and Hollywood are going out to have
fun on a Friday night.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Like young ladies do you know they go out on
a Friday night and have fun those young ladies.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
To be frank with you, a lot of young ladies
going out and Hollywood are going out to have fun
on a Friday night. And they be walking down these
sidewalks and all of a sudden, you see some guy
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Maybe at the metal pipe or an iron pipe. You know,
maybe down the street, you know, seeing some near dow.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well, you know, maybe about three four, five six feet
behind walking behind them in total darkness, and you got
to think, you know, I actually kind of say a prayer,
and you say, just a hope they're going to be safe,
because it's that threatening.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Over in this area is where that bus.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Stop was that we were going to show you at
ten o'clock tonight in the next half hour in our story,
And the folks were waiting in that bus stop waiting
for the bus to come by in total darkness. So
again you gotta wonder, as a lot of folks have
been saying here, it's really come down to a matter
of public safety.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now, where are we in life where Hollywood is a
big tourist attraction and they're just simply looking for the
street lights, the effing street lights to be on. That's
a really simple ask for the city council. You know,
they're not asking for free apartments or free cars or
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free cell phones. They just say, can you turn the
street lights on? So maybe we can't get we won't
be killed by the next CEO that walks behind that is.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Scary to see.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
And you do say a prayer when you see a
scene like.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That play out.
Speaker 12 (14:04):
Hope it ends well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
All right, ed, thank you so much. There he goes,
all right, well, we'll see how that works out. A
million dollars probably fixed, I don't know, maybe twenty street lights,
maybe thirty maximum And what is that going to do.
They'll just steal the copper wiring again and they'll go
dark again. So until they can put solar in there
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and those led lights, it's over. And they're not going
to do that, And so you're going to have to
decide is La worth living in when they can't give
you the simplest service in the world turn the lights on.
They can't do that. Unreal.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
A Los Angeles County Sheriff, I guess a deputy, not
the sheriff, went to Starbucks. You know Starbucks. They write
on the c up, you know, good choice, have fun,
see you later, smiley face, thumbs up, exclamation point. They're
told to put something on the cup, to write something
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on the cup, and somebody drew a picture of a pig.
And gave it to a police officer, and he was
saying he came up with some excuse. He was just
doing John Pork or Johnny Pork, which is a meme
that's going around, and he said he didn't mean to
do that. But Starbucks, I guess fired this cat over it.
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So let's find out where this happened here.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is speaking out after
a Starbucks for reesa served one of its deputies a
cup of coffee with a hand drawn image of a
pig on it. The incident happened Friday at a Starbucks
in Norwalk, in the middle of the deputy's sixteen hour shift.
He says he found the hand drawn pig a quote
discouraging and disrespectful. Sheriff's officials also called the in an
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extremely offensive and unacceptable. Speaking to KTLA, a Starbucks spokesperson
condemn the employee's actions, but says the drawing appears to
be a popular meme not associated with law enforcement. The
store as manager says the incident is now under investigation.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
All right, and I know the Starbucks where this happened.
If it's the one, I think it's on I think
it's on Firestone or what. I still call it Manchester
because I'm old school, but I think it was Firestone
and Pioneer. Yeah, I think that's the Starbucks on Pioneer. Yeah,
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Pioneer and Firestone, or as I call it, Manchester. You know,
I'm old school. Manchester used to be the name of
that street from the Ocean all the way practically to
Orange County. And then when they opened up Firestone Tire Company,
they renamed it after Firestone because that was the first
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big tire company that was open here since you know,
west of Ohio. I think they were only big factory
was in Ohio. And they opened up a Firestone tire
manufacturing company here and they renamed Manchester Firestone. But I
know that whole area. I used to drive a limousine
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and one of the companies that I worked for was
right in that neighborhood. You know, it's got your TJ Max.
There's the Starbucks nearby. I'm sorry, there's a Costco nearby.
It's got all the you know, essentials for people like
me who love to you know, pay retail for everything.
But that's a cool area. That drive through Starbucks there
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and that lad has been dismissed. Maybe it was mistake,
I don't know, but companies aren't are so quick to
act now when something like this happens. They just wanted
to go away. Do you remember the Hampton It was
the Hampton in I think it was in Illinois or
Minnesota where I think I think it was outside Chicago, Illinois,
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and they said, if you're a member of ICE that
they canceled your reservation and you're no longer welcome at
the hotel. It was called Hampton Inn and the Hampton
Hampton Inns are owned by the Hiltons, the Hilton family
and the Hilton family. They're closed, they're Republican, they're close
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with President Trump. And two days after that happened, what
did you see? You saw a crane outside of the
Hampton Inn taking that sign down and told the guy
who owns that it was owned an operator hotel, not
part it was part of the Hilton chain, but that
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particular hotel was owned by a couple and they used
the Hampton Inn as as their you know, syndicated name
or whatever. So the Hilton rented a crane went to
that Hampton end and took that sign down and said
you're on your own. Companies are very very quick to
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act when something like this happens. They don't want it
to linger, and they don't want any bad publicity, especially
when it comes to law enforcement. The amount of law
enforcement that goes to that Starbucks and Starbucks in California
is through the roof. They love when cops come in
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because people behave when the cops are in the store.
And the last thing what they want to do is
to piss off cops and firemen and paramedics. And so
as soon as that happened, they let the lad go.
I don't know where he went, but that is not
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going to happen at Starbucks, all right. LA Fire Department
fired trucks. More than one hundred fire trucks with La
Fire Department are and ambulances we're out of service. You
would think a year after the fire Department took all
that heat that they would do everything they can to
take any kind of stink off of them.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Last year we first showed you what's called the boneyard.
It's the maintenances facility for the.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
La Fire Department.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
One city council member told us some vehicles sat there
so long weed would actually grow underneath the tires.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
Well, since then we wanted to see where the fleet
stands by looking at the raw numbers.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Okay, let's take a look at the boneyard one year
after we discovered Let's see if the fire department put
these put these engines back into service.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Just crazy hot spots everywhere.
Speaker 13 (20:47):
As the Palancy's fire burned out of control under hurricane
force wins, some people chose to stay in fight.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Your house is still standing, so is fine.
Speaker 13 (20:56):
Court Wagner picked up garden hoses to take a stand
against the flames himself.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I had all hoses running at every house here, six hoses.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Running two of that house, one two, three, four seven total.
Speaker 13 (21:08):
Wow, why did you choose to pick up your garden homes?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
We're on our own guys, running his own fire department.
Speaker 13 (21:14):
Out there, you were looking at dozens of LAFD apparatus.
Last year, we obtained a public records that showed more
than one hundred Lacit Fire Department trucks, engines, and ambulances
had been out of service and needing repair.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Wait how many?
Speaker 13 (21:30):
We obtained a public records that showed more than one
hundred Lacit Fire Department trucks, engines and ambulances had been
out of service and needing repair. Through a records request,
we recently got new data on the department's fleet.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Okay, so last year one hundred we're out of service, engines, trucks,
Ambulancell's find out if they've corrected that.
Speaker 13 (21:50):
On January seventh of last year, the day the Palisades
fire broke out, there were two hundred fifty two fire
engines and trucks or heavy apparatus available to respond to calls,
and two hundred and seventeen ambulances in the total fleet.
But according to LAFD data last month, the heavy apparatus
count was down to two forty and ambulances two oh seven,
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drops of nearly five percent in both categories.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It got worse. It's worse than it was last year.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I mean emore.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
In November, Chief at Jimmie Moore was sworn in as
the new head of the departments following leadership changes brought
on by the handling of the Palisades fire. More acknowledges
the department needs more equipment, but says he has to
manage within his means while the city faces a budget
crisis following.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Why is La always in a budget crisis? I know
they have lawsuits and the police department's expensive, fire department's expensive,
But how do other cities do it? How do other
cities manage the fire department, manage the police department, keep
the street lights on? If I running the city of La,
(23:02):
I would take my top fifty guys and gals and
let them walk around Burbank for a week, for two
weeks and interview the people who run Burbank. How does
Burbank do it? All the street lights are on, all
the fire trucks are working, all the cops are getting paid,
and there's no crisis. How is that possible? That La,
(23:24):
with that tax base and those million dollar homes that
are everywhere. You know, some people paying one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year in property tax and they
can't keep the street lights on.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
Following one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in
California history, the department says it has received three new
fire engines, with three more expected to arrive in the
next few weeks. We wanted to ask the chief why.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Right now if fire engine's about a two year weight,
when we order a fire engine.
Speaker 13 (23:52):
He also says some of the fire engines and trucks
in the department's aging fleet are so old original ports
are impossible to find. We're putting about forty on the average,
forty thousand miles a year on a fire engine.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Okay, that's not you know, a billions. It seems reasonable.
Forty thousand miles a year. Most people drive twenty twenty
five thousand.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
The average person drives fourteen thousand miles a year.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I don't know, not in LA. I think if you
live in LA or Orange County, I know Bellio, you
drive one hundred miles a day, So that's four or
five hundred miles a week. Two thousand, you're driving twenty
four thousand miles to and from work. I mean that
has nothing to do with weekend or trips or anything
you might take. Yeah, so you're probably putting thirty thousand miles. Yes,
(24:45):
on the car. Yes, you're like a fire engine. You
drive like a fire truck. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (24:51):
The union that represents firefighters says the problem is evident
at this fire station bay in South LA and many
others because of previous department.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Easily, LA's got to get it together at some point,
either they got to change management or the mayor or
the people that run the city of La. They're not
doing their job. They can't keep the street lights on,
the fire trucks aren't rolling, the ambulances are stock. They're
not doing a great job. And if you're running a
company in La, the City of La is a big company,
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you would change management if they weren't doing great job.
Look at the NFL. I think nine or ten coaches
were fired because they weren't winning. Well, La is not winning.
They need new management and you better get it quick
before this thing spirals and property values go in the
toilet and that vicious circle starts. And that's already starting
(25:44):
to happen. So if you live in La, you got
a voice. You got it voice, you got to use it.
You've got to be loud and make changes because you're
going to lose your property value if you don't.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Crime Caught Crime was thwarted when suspects barricade themselves inside
a handbag store. Irvine cops said they caught them pretty quickly.
Really a bad place to do crime Irvine, a lot
of cops and great equipment, state of the art equipment.
(26:24):
They have very little to do because it is so
safe that if you go down to Irvine to commit crimes,
you're going to get caught. I've been saying this for
twenty five years on the radio, twenty five years. Don't
go to Irvine and create mischief or steal. They'll catch
you and they'll throw you in jail for literally since
(26:45):
nineteen ninety six. Okay, so this December, it'll be thirty years.
And yet people still do it all the time, and
guess what, they get caught. Here's another example of guys
that didn't listen to meals it's an ending.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
Most store owners don't usually get the crooks caught and
all of the merchandise returned.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Wow, and where was this Irvine. Yeah, they didn't listen
to me. Don't steal s in Irvine. Don't steal crap
in Irvine. You're gonna get caught returned.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
And for a business that's been hit three times in
the last several months, they are just so thankful for
the quick response from police.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Come out with your hands up all the way out, all.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The way out, or you're gonna get it. I haven't
heard that in a long time. Come out of your
hands up. It's like an old Western Come.
Speaker 15 (27:34):
Out with your hands up all the way out, all
the way out, or you're gonna get there.
Speaker 14 (27:37):
In the age of organized crime and massive smash and grabs,
the crooks in this case not able to get away.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It was like a drama.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
You would have thought that came from a movie.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
But it was real.
Speaker 14 (27:49):
Like Tammy Fan, the CEO of Luxe d Jore, a
luxury handbag store, praising Irvine PD's immediate response after a
security guard notice something suspicious night on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
They roamed around and then they knew exactly which bags
to go go steal.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
With one hundred thousand dollars worth of luxury items in hand,
you see them peek out the back door.
Speaker 15 (28:13):
These guys thought they were getting to clean get away,
and as they start to exit, they realized that they
had been discovered.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Irvine PD had the buildings surrounded within minutes and then
called in an I in the sky a drone.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
There you go. You got drones, you got helicopters and
a lot of cops with nothing to do, and you're
gonna steal crap and Irvine, how dumb are you?
Speaker 14 (28:35):
From their neighbors.
Speaker 15 (28:36):
At the time, we did not have an operator on duty,
so yeah, we phoned a friend, which was the Coast
Mason Police Department.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
The two suspects were treated inside hiding out for hours.
Then it was time to let the dogs out.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, who let the dogs out? They got a lot
of dogs in Irvine too. They'll come in and bite you.
Speaker 14 (28:53):
To let the dogs out right out.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
All he could hear on the intercom was surrender now,
or we're releasing the dogs, and the dogs will bite.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
And once the dog bites you. I learned this from
a friend of mine who used to be the bomb
Squab Gouy named Johnny Hansen, Once the dog bites onto you,
it's almost impossible even for the trainer or the dog's
handler to get that dog off you. They've got to
really struggle to get that dog off you. It really
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will bite and chew and break your arm and break
your bust your veins. It really does a lot of damage.
And while that dog is flipping his head around, more
damage is being done. And sometimes you may lose a
finger or an arm, or even a leg or a
foot over what handbags. That's worth it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Two And I'm.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Over there like, oh, I hope they release it.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
That's great. She said that out loud.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm over there like, oh, I hope they released it.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I hope they released the dogs. That's class.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I hope they release.
Speaker 14 (30:03):
Now the crooks are eventually caught in cuffed or vine.
PD says this case should send a strong message.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's not gonna send a message. I've been saying for
thirty years. Don't commit crimes. And a lot of Orange
County they'll nail you. Newport's another one data point, san Clementing.
Is that enough? Is that enough? All those cities down there,
they have a lot of cops, say to the art equipment, drones, helicopters,
cameras everywhere, and they'll nail you.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect
to go to jail.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Okay. I've been saying that for thirty years, thirty years,
and people don't listen to me. I don't know if
this is guy the chief or this guy's a cop.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect
to go to jail.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Okay. Keep that in mind, criminals, you know you gotta
be smart.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You can't come to reminding commit crime. You can expect to.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Go to jail.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
Lux du Jour has been a target with break ins
happening in October and just.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It definitely disturbs your peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, all right, I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Andy Reesmeier is coming up next right here with Ronner
and the whole team on KFI AM six forty Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now, you can
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