Hey - Do you guys live in Venice? This sounds like my neighborhood - I
live north of Rose Ave at the Santa Monica border and we have the St Joseph
Center bussing in 150 homeless druggies, crazies and drunks each day to
live in our alleys and yards - they open at 7:30 am and close at 4:30 pm
and let them make their own way after that. Our Councilwoman (Galanter)
thinks that us birkenstock wearin', tofu eatin', beach rompin', flute
playn' snake charmers are all in favor of all of this positive social
service crap and welcome the diversity it brings to the collective
consienceness of Venice. She doesn't know the difference between diversity
and adversity!
Rick Feibusch - Automotive Journalist/Appraiser - Venice, CA
>
>Ron Schonscheck wrote:
>
>> I would either, A. Get my neighborhood cleaned up immediately or B. Move.
>>
>> b-evans@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>>
>> > ...if I had not seen it with my own eyes!
>> >
>> > A little while ago, I was coming down the alley in back of our house. I
>> > do this often, just to make sure there is no trouble, particularly
>> > since I have one of my Frogeye Sprites sitting there. The transmission
>> > is in the car, but no engine, radiator, or other parts in the engine
>> > compartment.
>> >
>> > As I drove down the alley, I saw a shopping cart piled high with
>> > someone's belongings sitting next to the Sprite. Always suspicious, I
>> > stopped and got out. What I saw was beyond belief. There was woman of
>> > about 30 sitting IN the engine compartment, her skirt pulled up around
>> > her waist and leaning her back against the crossmember with an arm on
>> > each wheel arch assembly. She had her ass shoved up against the
>> > transmission, inside the casing, and her legs were straddling the
>> > transmission. And all the while she was impaled on Austin-Healey Part
>> > Number 2A2259 (first motion shaft with cone and gear). With her pumping
>> > and moaning, she didn't hear me approach.
>> >
>> > As we had guests from England who were blythely swimming with their
>> > small children in our swimming pool a few feet away, I was somewhat
>> > upset. I am afraid that I grabbed a hose and started watering her down
>> > full blast (probably the first water her body had known in ages). I am
>> > afraid that I also raised my voice and made assorted threats.
>> >
>> > It took her a while to get disintangled and crawl out, and she was
>> > covered with grease. Well, the parts that I cared to look at were
>> > covered with grease.
>> >
>> > I am afraid that I was just terribly politically incorrect in my
>> > treatment of the young woman. I even gave her shopping cart a shove
>> > down the alley, closely followed by her vodka bottle.
>> >
>> > I have long know that a couple could engage in Presidential activities
>> > in a Sprite cockpit (no pun intended). And I have heard of people who
>> > LOVED their cars. But this? It was beyond belief.
>> >
>> > (Well, all of this DOES relate to the marque!)
>> >
>> > Bob
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