While Yo! Venice! supports good Police work when we see it, we also don’t like it when the laws of the citizens are deemed unnecessary for the people that enforce them. That said, it would be appropriate for the LAPD when bringing their horses to patrol the boardwalk to bring über sized pooper scoopers and bags to clean up after their horses. It is the law, and the LAPD likes to ignore it. At Washington and Ocean Front Walk today we watched an irate woman that stepped in a large pile of LAPD’s finest poop calling the LAPD on her cel phone to “clean this shit up”. We agree with her that it is quite rude to leave massive piles of horse crap on the boardwalk.
In case the LAPD can’t find it in their books, the law in Los Angeles County is:
Title 10 of the Los Angeles County Code specifically prohibits a person from leaving pet waste on any public property or any private property that is not his or her own. It is important to keep our City and the environment clean, and animal waste can easily get into City storm drains and flow into the ocean.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Dogtownsurfer // May 27, 2008 at 8:24 am
One more example if you need it :
http://www.venicesurfreport.com/2008/05/venice-surf-report-052108-hypocrisy-inc.html
2 Dogtownsurfer // May 27, 2008 at 12:42 pm
One more example of the rules appying to us and not them…….
http://www.venicesurfreport.com/2008/05/venice-surf-report-052108-hypocrisy-inc.html
3 Steve // May 27, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Oh no! Horse shit! The police out there to patrol and protect, not to clean up after their horses.
Further, I highly doubt police horses are classified as “pets”.
4 x90210 // May 27, 2008 at 5:39 pm
What the hell are police doing on horseback anyway? It’s not the wild, wild, west… or New York City. In Beverly Hills, our officers ride scooters.
You should look in to that.
5 JA // May 27, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Glad you posted this, I’m tired of this crap on.
6 JA // May 27, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Glad you posted this, I’m tired of this crap
7 Keri // May 28, 2008 at 5:15 pm
The police should ride on segways. Those don’t leave any poop.
But I guess if they are chasing someone on the sand, they’d need horses. Running on sand is hard.
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