Street light thefts near Oakland's Lake Merritt have residents concerned
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Residents who live near Lake Merritt in Oakland are concerned about their safety after thieves have stolen or damaged at least 10 light poles, some of which have dated back for more than a century. Katie Nielsen reports.
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We really can't have anything nice 😕
Not with Border hoppers
nothing....
certainly not when there's any of 'them' around...
nothing is safe in oakland
They stealing 100 year old lights now in Oakland. What’s next? Damn, is anything safe anymore 😢
That's Oakland!
They should name it “Little Haiti”
"Why didn't the alarm system get them?" "They stole that too"....
This does not happen in Japan.
It doesn't happen in most places across this world.
you don’t have the “usual suspects “ in japan
Wow, Cali is in such decline!
Yup but they keep voting for this communist agenda .
They're green because they have been repainted green 🙄
The whole city of Oakland "is of concern" 😮 These people living in Oakland are delirious thinking that place is a jewel.
No consequences for stealing in oakland
Only about 30% of Oakland is law abiding citizens and they’re surprised? 😂
Shock collars... that might keep them under control...
Replacement 15,000 dollars each? I wouldn't pay that for the whole city! 😅
Yeah seems like 5k is more realistic.
First, I would advise the gentleman to ask his wife not to run in the wee hours by herself. Secondly, of course street lights are being stolen in Oakland. Nothing goes to waste in Oaktown.
Hope is lost…. Damn that hit hard to the core 😢
I work in the light pole industry, they are not green because they are solid copper with 100 year old patina. It's green paint and the bases and poles are probably steel. Copper patina is MUCH lighter.
Another day, another lie from the news!
Imagine if they put that much effort into getting a job
I'm just gonna keep writing - Oakland Family Values On Display
They need liights too much crime in Oakland didn't they find a cut off hand in lake Merritt?
Oakland (and SF residents) should just face facts. Since they support progressive policies like criminal justice reform, why not just come up with a tax on all residents and use that to give all thieves a living allowance? It'll be much easier for the thieves to just collect a check than to rip heavy stuff or smash car windows and try to fence stolen goods.
Check the people at 12 st and 16, just drove by and they were peeling a lot of electrical wire.
"First tonight a news story about Oakland, where absolutely no one is surprised, more types of crime is happening"
Wow, this town is a disgusting dump. Your residents can't even respect the street lights. Pathetic.
They're not stealing the cast iron light poles. The poles were damaged by a storm or are rotting. They are stealing the copper wires that feed the poles. The poles were never designed to have the string of lights hanging from them. Then when a tree branch falls on the wires it puts a huge strain on the poles.
How’s this happening without suspicion/intervention?
When will the government have a strategy punish thieves that won't create burdens on taxpayers?
This is happening in Pasadena too - historic lamposts that are about 100 years old being stolen by trashy people. The people who buy these stolen pieces are part of the problem.
oakland is a dump not worth having anything there.
Voting for Democrats leads to misery and misery loves company.
That is so sad nothing is safe anymore
Yes Maureen, that was back when people actually had values
This has been happening in Pasadena too.
One day, future generations will be able to watch these videos to see how nice everything was, and to lay scorn on people in them for how casual, narcissistic, and oblivious, they are about the impending doom.
People hate the light
They love darkness
Apt metaphor for a city literally eating itself alive. POS destroying irreplaceable lights for pocket change in the recycling centers while we pay $15K a pop to replace them.
Old news is not new news.Let the police do their job,and defund the media.All they do is read off a teleprompter...
Doesn't matter if the police to do their job when Pamela Price doesn't do hers.
Thank you for another depressive episode of Joketown.
Easy solution-
bring a lantern when you walk your dog.
"Lumos," also works.
So you can attract the killers with guns you can become a sitting duck I lived in Oakland for 22 years be real
Don't go walking around when it is dark in Oakland
Don't they also call this Lake, Lake Nimby?
That's a new one.
😂
Not in Latin America
They steal for the metal
there were panted green ..
I like how the news don't show the homeless tent part of the lake ahhaha nice job making it look better on news but in real life and I go there like 3 times a week to walk it's homeless tents and homeless people sleeping in almost every corner of the lake and the grass has dookie all.over it and the benches are sticky and nasty and they have bird and human dookie everywhere you walk
Graduated from high school in Oakland in 1974. Oakland was nothing like it is now. Just Plain horrible. Would like to thank these progressive politicians. Our governor and Sanctuary city and state status. Cannot open your borders to poor people from every darn country.
Make it out of a metal the thieves would not like. - lol.
pam price says unnecessary
I Lived right on Lake Merritt on Jackson St 1980-86 and was working paying rent $310 a month, and on a Boxing Team, won Northern California Gold Gloves in 82-83, use to jump rope and shadow box there and Alameda college on Sundays, i could burn that Lakes 3 mile roadwork up in 16 minutes and i would go around twice, 6 miles for my boxing Roadwork, you know im a real Boxer when i say Roadwork instead of jogging.
Why doesn't someone just stalk out the lights and wait....
They gonna steal traffic lights soon 😂
They are already stealing the wiring for traffic lights...at one intersection they stole the wiring for the traffic lights, then the city put out stop signs at the intersection and they stole those too.
What is wrong in our world right now? I remember when i was growing up people respected each other and feared the police. Now all this brazen crime in broad daylight is just crazy to me. I came from a better and much smarter generation!!!!!!!!
Lake Merritt has become the public toilet of Oakland.
Mean 😢
you live in oakland .. nothen is beatiful there
Actually, Oakland is a really beautiful city. Have you actually been here? Did you know we have more park/open space than any other city in the US?
Welcome America's butthole! LOL. You get what you vote for.
whack. this looting is wild.
The worse the economy gets the hungrier people will get, they’ll start getting us at stop lights and drive thrus
CONCLUSION: Oakland SUCKS!
The city is just gone, like South Africa or Haiti.
Lol 😂 what’s next for that poor town, what a shame.
Hey Oaklanders - it's reparations. You voted for fewer police and leniency for criminals. You set up pro-crime incentives then are dismayed by criminal activity. The Democrat solution will be more taxes for the law abiding and more freebies for the criminals.
Oh Oakland....😂😂😂😂
Says 12 comments
I see two
What gives?
Maybe the thieves also stole those other 10 comments?
Somebody from Oakland stole them
Censorship.
@@RobotNannyDiariesThem stealing everything… 😅
That lady is such a liar! She said she was there when they put up the lights! Really? In 1925? You’re still here?
bruh they've replaced the lights in the last 100 years
@@rhodesfunk2996I knew someone would make a stupid comment. Hahaha thanks for calling them out 😅
She was talking about the necklace of lights. Not the lights from 1925😉
@@reginaldbrown8012 Both were part of the original installation in 1925 but the bulbs on the catenary lighting would have been replaced multiple times since then. I can see recently they were re-lamped in 2006 and again in 2016 with LED bulbs.
I've fallen down the RUclips rabbit hole, and I'm not mad about it.
Smdh
Lolololol!!! The swirl down the toilet continues for the bay area. Keep voting demoRAT 🤡's!!
Didn't know there was still white people living in Oakland :)
Only woke white people.
Be very careful they usually don't like people who are not black they can be racist against non black people I lived there for 22 years
Are you serious? Are we for real stealing street lights? Unemployed behavior for real 😐🤡🤣
The crackheads will steal anything
lol
Run away from jokeland.
The lake stinks.
Oakland city never get brighter, do you know why.? 😎😎😎
Welcome to the Democrat utopia. Remember to vote blue.
Black lives matter 😅😅😅
Then don't have black on black. Crime there was a black African ameriçan who had a new beautiful car she just bought when a riot occurred by angry black people they ruin her beautiful car and all she could do is shack her head. In disbelief and say black life matters
Tweekers love copper.
Where is our esteemed Mayor on this?
Same problem is occurring in South Africa
Oakland = South Africa
Some countries leave home items but pull the copper pipe and wire . Another in united states took a lady’s cement driveway when she was on vacation .
and Latin America
@@michaelrogers9720 No quite yet, in SA they steal the whole traffic light...they are only stealing the wiring so far here, I'm sure that will change though.
And Oakland has a Mandela Parkway...lol...
Rapacious Capitalism is leaving our cities a mess. Endless tax cuts mean cities like Oakland don't have the money to even keep up with failing infrastructure. Our roads are trash. Our parks are trash. Our public places falling apart. What does this tell people who live here? It says, "You are trash." When you undermine the public trust in general - in favor of the ultra wealthy - this is the result. "Broken window syndrome" writ large. Keep enriching the few at the expense of the many and society fails.
they could enforce covid for 2.5 years in a militant fashion but can’t keep the city safe at all…interesting
Too many pant-sagging hoodlums in Oakland.
Pretty soon there will be nothing left to steal in Oakland.
Stolen and sold for scrap metal Part of the multi culture experience
15k a piece...that's why they stole them...🙄
WoW ! Those were vintage old cool looking ! ... ... ...That's about as low as it get's on the "lightpole" for stealing huh !!!
How sad !!! 😕
- Watching from Colorado... Wishing you good honest folk there the best through that catastrophe that state has become ! 😐
Those are such beautiful streetlights. Basically irreplaceable.
They probably steal roaches and rats in Oakland 🙄
You can't have nice things in Oaktown.
It's getting harder and harder to find civilized behavior in communities that are overwhelmingly inhabited by democrats.
I mean...that placed looked a lot nicer than West Virginia or rural Alabama lmao
He’s from Nebraska
Was she homeless too?
Vote different. We are recalling all the corrupt bought out politicians. 🤷🏽♀️
Why in the world would ANYBODY hang out in oakland? These people have a death wish.
make newscum pay for it from his illegal funds accoun
Just use solar power panels for the new lamps then there is no copper to steal
Imagine how ugly those would be compared to the ones remaining.