Attack on LA’s, biggest landmark, 6th street bridge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
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Unbelievable news copper thieves open up most utility boxes on the 6th St., Viaduct Bridge, and steel. The copper wire over 1/3 of the lights are not working anymore blank cables are exposed to the public tagging on the bridge and other crazy things.
People have no respect for anything - including themselves.
That's Dem's for ya!
things like that happen when their is ZERO PUNISHMENT ,
Nah. /
And that's why we can't have nice things. Bridge looks like hell.
It was a big design mistake to build a bridge with supports that could be walked up or ridden by a bicycle. The architect making such a mistake is bad enough. But the fact that this could pass thru all the City's design approvals speaks much worse of our City employees. We are supposed to call them public servants. In reality, they are just a bunch of slugs who are willing to show up for a crappy job if they get great money, great insurance perks, lots of vacation time and job security. I lived in Los Angeles and had a long career (real estate appraiser) that took me to Los Angeles City Hall many times...I never got the quality of service that would suggest I was working with a person who could be described as a public servant. Most of the time they let you know you are an annoyance for having come in and disturbed their day.
As for the people who do these crimes, they should receive long sentences and their parents should be penalized too. The criminals AND their parents should be sent out of the country if they came here illegally.
@@danoc51Yes exactly that . As the "fortified" election/coup continues ....
danoc51 From what I noticed when I lived there is aesthetics comes way before practicality. That goes for architecture and plastic surgery.
@danoc51 if you do not live here anymore, why do you comment?👎to you!
@@curtg7396and you live in paradise??😂
That city landscape looks awful to me. It sucks the life out of me. I don't know how you find joy in a place like this Mike. You are overflowing with positivity to be able to find that place amusing. I'm in awe.
I agree, American cities depress the hell out of me.
@@Gamesso1slOo0l Check out the 1800s photos. We are told it was cowboys and indians... but clearly not in the photos.
Henry Rollins said many years ago that Los Angeles has a culture of death, and he was right!
It looks like an utter sh1thole
(GIV is not sponsored by the LA tourism authority) 😂😂😂
Especially since Mike is from Germany 🇩🇪 one of the most beautiful and maintained countries on earth
Rotten bastards stealing the copper. And why do the guys have to do donuts with their minibikes. Such a nice bridge and they cant respect it! Anyways thanks GiV and Merry Christmas to you and your Mom
Los Angeles is full of bad people.
Mexicans.
1:22 Keep it classy LA. Aholes even burning donuts into the bridge too. Good grief
I wonder if people came onto their driveway and did donuts if they would like it or not smfh
Yes hate to be that way but they live trashy lifestyles
Sad how a state like California has gone way down hill
And there's no one to blame but ourselves! I stop voting for democrats because they don't align with my values or politics. I'm more in the middle but the policies on homeless and SB 46 to reduce sentences for lower crimes has really affected all of California in a negative way. I voted against these policies but they still passed. I also voted against Newsom, one of our worse California Governors. Newsom and Jerry Brown are two worst we had!
I agree. It's such a beautiful place but it breaks my heart that it becomes harder for people to live decently and comfortably over there.
I can think of worse places.😂
@@californiahandballi blame the people because people think graffiti is cool
Los Angeles should assign a 24 hour police watch over things like this bridge. Doesn't make sense to spend a billion dollars on something and see it destroyed in just a year or two.
HA! Police in LA! The woke DA won't prosecute shit and the city council made everything legal. Crime is rampant and the democrat voters are to blame.
Exactly spot on how about all these stores too security? Nope makes too much sense, think about it some of these are billion dollar businesses, maybe there is a reason? They are woke they dont care in fact some places practically encourage it.
Imagine how beautiful California would be with police enforcement and different leadership.
LAPD has longed stopped doing any actual policing.
@@chieromancer Bingo I live in Chicago same thing here. Look who runs those departments.
They used tamper proof screws on the steel railing but they didn't use tamper proof screws on the electrical boxes...
For a 2022 bridge they're using some 1970's design
Tamper-resistant. No fastener is tamper proof!
@@ronaldoago-go5907 my girlfriend's bra-snap is tamper proof ! 😅
@@Pyjamarama11 i prefer 1970s design above 202x, especially the looks of buildings and even the engineering behind it. and most was done without computers or only very basic tasks
I'm aggravated that the designers didn't take this possibility into account.
Yeah because its the designers fault? If someone wants something they will get it. How about putting the blame on where it belongs?
@@tammygermiller8307You miss the point. LA crime has been bad for years. This possible outcome should have been realized while the bridge was being designed. The stealing of copper to sell for scrap has been going on for at least 20 years.
In the early 1980s, when car thefts were rising, one person used observation and critical thinking to design the "low jack." People saw the news, saw the ads, and protected their cars. During the oil crisis, people were siphoning gas. People installed locks on their gas caps. Today, people are installing ring cams. These realizations by people fall under reason, observation, and critical thinking, which are values John Locke placed in his Enlightenment movement. A movement embraced by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay, Franklin, Madison, and later Lincoln.
Our seven principal founders reshaped and expanded Locke's values into a philosophy known as the American Enlightenment. Under the approval of the other six founders, Madison incorporated these values into our Constitution. Which falls under Article 1, Section 8, "provide for the common defense and protect the general welfare." One of the values of our Constitution is that the government's responsibility is to protect people from the coercive, careless, and selfish acts of others. This is the reason we pay the government.
Now LA will have to pay for the repair and I am sure the same thing will happen again because somebody didn't take the time to design an access panel that is theft proof.
Governments in the United States are responsible for being one step ahead of the crooks.
If it were up to me, I would look at how people have treated the bridge since it opened. The bridge has obviously been abused. Based on how the bridge has been treated, I believe the park will be trashed by some members of the public when it opens in 2025.
Unless someone can come up with a surface that can withstand heat and repel graffiti that is cost-effective and an outlet box that can deter copper thieves, I wouldn't be blowing taxpayer money on these projects. I say be cost-conscious. Go with the bare essentials.
I’m aggravated with the losers who only take and destroy
They never do
Should have taken into account it's not a white city no more.
Billions of dollars for a bridge but not a penny for surveillance? Someone should be fired or have to pay for that oversight.
They shouldn't waste their taxpayers $ with gardens underneath, who's going to go there, it looks its outside the city, and they'll destroy that too! ;( too sad!
They shouldn’t have to watch a damn bridge lol. It’s the trash people who are to blame.
It goes to show the incompetence of the public workers hierarchy in the entire of California. No one give a damn.
If GIV stood still long enough he would probably get tagged with graffiti.
😂
I think they would try to rob him, especially if he had a bike.
This sort of thing with the copper wiring theft is very, very common in third world country cities, which is exactly what Los Angeles is now. I lived in California fir a few years a long time ago. I considered it a paradise. Not any more..... thank you for your very insightful videos Mike.
In my impoverished town in northern England we opened our new footbridge yesterday at a cost of £12.2m. I’m praying we treat it with a bit more respect.
What's the point of disguising a cell tower as a tree in the middle of LA?
Should make them out of graffiti covered concrete, they'd blend in better long term.
so they wont be destroyed, 5g is not really famous
GIV always says "beautiful Los Angeles", but, in reality it rarely looks beautiful.
It used to, look at the old photos, up to the 1950s.
It's called cognitive dissonance. Most people choose to keep their head stuck in the sand about reality and suffer from this.
I sometimes wonder if he's being facetious when he says it.
@@TheUtuber999 I think he's perhaps in denial and hanging onto the last shreds of what Hollywood used to be. Those days are over. I was the same way until I (painfully) woke up to the disgusting and evil truths about it over 10 years ago while living in and working in Hollywood myself. If he wakes up and lets his conscience lead, he wouldn't really have much of his existing channel left. That's a scary thought and so I do understand why he remains stuck in this paradigm/facade. It's so difficult to break free from our conditioning and social engineering. I still watch because I like Mike and am perpetually fascinated by human nature and what is going on since I left L.A. a year ago.
@@kattilathehunfreedomfighter I think I know how you (and Mike) feel. I was born in the San Fernando Valley and went to grade school in Santa Monica. Moved around quite a bit before finally leaving LA for good back in the Summer of '90. I'm also glad I got to experience it for what it was when I was younger. I also miss KROQ and KNAC Long Beach.
That is so sad and angering….
Well of course they are ripping-off the copper. It's LA after all. Same thing with the filthy graffiti. The people in that city are the worst.
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scottg3110 So I guess where you live is perfect.
No place is perfect......but MANY places are far better (cleaner, less crime, less bums) than Los Angeles.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496Any other place doesn't have to be perfect to be way better than LA.
@@blazingc5 IMO. Nope.
The scrap yard is absolutely complicit.
You should be part of the main news reporting scene! LA news needs you, Mike!!
nope ! he’s too real he doesn’t cover cats in trees like the fake mmm 🙄🙄🙄☄️
typical behavior of people who have been raised in a low-income environment. since they typically don't own property and know nothing about the pride of ownership, it's easy for them to destroy other people's property.
Take away EBT cards,bring value back,got to start some where.
Unemployed behavior.
Yeah….high income people just steal from the poor…..lol
bum activities
low-life mentality is hard to overcome
The way you cover things is so superior to everybody else. You really have a talent for this
selfishness, that is the destruction of society.
rosesmith6208. Its really a very small percentage though. If you figure 7 million people leave the bridge alone and only a few dozen mess with it. My nephew works for the city planning board of Santa Clarita and they always have to fix stuff like this. If they didnt the whole town would be graffiti! Its just what happens. If you travel through Europe or England graffitti is everywhere as well as garbage. Only difference is most places in the US clean it up.
It's so sad with a brand new bridge people have to vandalize it. They were vandalizing right in front of You GIV.
Police are going to find GIV fingerprints on the insulator.
you just cant have anything nice anymore. 🤷♂ Such a shame.
Thanks for the update 2x👍
LA is moving from 3rd world to 4th world 😂
I think the criminals should move somewhere else if criminals like graffiti then the criminals should go to abandoned places
The homeless are really going to enjoy their new homes under that bridge in the new park.
LOL that's exactly what I was thinking!
😂
The homeless people will really appreciate the new park...
The park planned under this bridge will be like Disneyland for the Homeless. It's going to be so dangerous and the gangs will tag the erea even more. Your totally right
Yeah, how long will it take to ruin the park also?
I remember having to do a fireworks job in Lynwood, CA a number of years ago. Apparently they had just “refurbished” a (crack) park and wanted to do a big presentation to celebrate the re-opening. Local city officials were there to pat themselves on the back for a “job well done”.
The park reverted to a place to its original disheveled state in a matter of weeks.
I give it around a month before the park at the bridge turns into a complete mess.
Perhaps they should electrify the wire boxes. Appreciate your adventures Merry Christmas!
They built that bridge just so everyone can fuck it up lol.
Thanks Mike! They stole something more important than the cable,
likely some type of junction box. The engineers wouldn't need an 18" big box like that if they were just twisting wire nuts.
Maybe the cables were taking too long to pull through so they just went with the bigger ticket items.
Returning to the scene would be dumb since everyone noticed the lights were out.
LAPD gotta get their team looking for someone selling a lot of LED lighting box thingies. I bet they are expensive.
Merry Christmas!
Yeah i bet they stole the LED drivers which costs hundreds of dollars each.
@@davidz1205 They are in a grow room now....
Real news,thank you
Mike, thank for showing why the good people of LA can never have anything nice.
Places like this in California just disgust me. Between the extreme poverty/degeneracy/vandalism, and the hyper rich "celebrities" that are just part of an elite that see the rest of us as subhuman, it's the worst of both extremes.
So, prior to the 2008 financial crisis, when copper prices (and all commodity prices) was high and in demand, stripping copper was not uncommon. Sometimes strip mall owners (I include myself) would find the charred remains of a person OR find your copper missing. What we learned was that you can protect your building by placing the tubing on the inside AND using silver-dollar locks that cannot be cut onto the breaker boxes...and then I added a second lock to each box. Apparently LA did nothing to make these access and strip proof.
weld metal plates on the pedestrian side thereby making the Copper Thiefs work on the opposite side where the traffic is passing and they would be in full view of the public......😊
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People who work state government are underqualified and over paid just like the designers for this bridge in commen sence.
Even when it's bad news, I still love your videos!!
Thanks GiV!!
Really sickening how people have to ruin everything. Then they wonder why nothing is replaced and looking like crap. Then they want to be mature . WOW so sickening 😡😡😮😮
Mike what is that big building with a crane on top that they were working on when is it going to be finished what is it
memories511 Its a bad design though to have that so accessible. They usually figure in the human factor,
It will never be finished. They keep stealing the copper out of it...@@JamesCrisp-iq4cs
@@josephdoiron8376 I blame the people doing it , they should know better . It is just evil to destroy something that is to benefit everyone. Now they should just leave the lights off and if people drive off the bridge, O WELL
They spent millions to build the bridge but couldn't buy a security camera system? What a joke.
Also they built that bridge over a ghetto area, why would they do something so stupid?
Cameras are useless, libs they promote crime
@@trevorjameson3213Most cities have started putting more money into bad neighbourhoods to try to gentrify them, but quite often it doesn't fully work, sometimes not at all
We have a similiar bridge here in Sarasota Florida. It has NEVER been defaced with graffiti. Conservative areas are just BETTER..
Yes they are.
@@scottg3110
Charlotte County Florida is a lower income but conservative area on the Gulf. Majority white working class folk and retirees. Homes are $200k. Very low crime for a lower income area.
Lived in Austin in the 80's. Someone stripped all the copper to the walk in coolers 1000's$ of BBQ gone bad. Then we discovered that someone was living in the crawlspace of our burger joint (which was next to bbqjoint) they had cut a hole in the a/c vent and was nice and cool in the Texas heat. Restaurant was hot as hell. They discovered a cot and small table with a candle on it.
I hate tagging so much, if you're gonna vandalize make it look nice, like do an art piece or mural, instead they write their name on it like a child
Hey Mike, informative video… You have to be careful that some of these people that are doing a disservice to the bridge may be a disservice to you… Be careful and stay safe. I worry about you buddy. Please be careful.🇺🇸🙏☮️✝️💜🌎👍⭐️🇮🇹
Copper is valued at $3.90 per pound. Scrap dealers buying from junkies will pay considerably less. It'll likely cost the taxpayers $100k+ to rewire the bridge.
The city needs to have undercovers sell the copper and find out whose buying it
You may be German born, but you truly love L.A. You should run for Mayor one day.
The City would be Blessed by your Administration, and through it a revival would
take place. 👍
It's only going to get worse!
Imagine the hell scape to come when things get really bad
2024's going to be a real doozy. Buckle up!
I cant stand when people always want to put grafitti on everything, and some risk their lives to do it when most cant read it.
Same people that throw their trash on the ground.
Mexifornia
Most who do this are illegals. This happens in all Democrat sanctuary cities. Mass Deportations.
Yes! This is exactly the old school Mike music and style I’ve have been wanting! GIV 💕
Thieves only care about themselves. They don't care how it affects others or that others can't enjoy the lights°
Sad sad sad.
Thank you GIV ,
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄
Good reporting GIV! News straight from the source.
Merry Christmas Michael to you and your mother! Thank you for all your videos. You make our lives more enjoyable. ❤
I work at a scrap metal yard in Michigan. The copper wire you showed is classified as machine wire. We pay $1.60 per pound. Which is about the national average price across the country.
A lot or new outdoor wires on poles are fiber. I have seen signs on poles telling would be thief's that there is no copper in those reels you see parked in a construction area. Assuming they can read!
DO YOU TAKES EVERYONE'S ID? OUR SCRAP YARD TAKES A COPY OF OUR ID & THAT PICTURE IS ON YOUR RECEIPT TOO !?
Stop buying it off dirty looking immigrants then!
As long as Arnold's best buddy Gavin is Gov of CA it's going to get worse too.
Tacky, people just don't appreciate anything anymore. How sad. Taught no values anymore 😞
Not surprising at all but what is surprising is the bridge is still there
They should electrify the bolts. Good coverage on this Mike.
They should have foot and motor patrol on that beautiful landmark of LA.
They should post signs on the bridge stating 1 year in state prison for painting graffiti on that bridge.
That would stop them alright...
The thieves probably consider 1 yr in prison to be a paid vacay…
What a shithole. I used to be proud to say I was born and raised in LA. I get sick when I pass through there. Glad to be out!
😂 this is what happens in South Africa. They can’t even keep the power on because of the power thieves
All that money for this bridge and the wiring is stolen, no values or respect left in Los Angeles.
Graffiti almost always makes LA look trashy.
A park under that bridge is going to be a drug den. That bridge was a HUGE waste of taxpayer money. I wonder how many politicians got kick-backs from that project...
Typical lapd. Someone spent hours blocking traffic to unscrew those. Nobody reported them or lapd ignored it.
He's on the walkway side, the wall obstructs drivers' view
LA District Attorney George Gascon's new Chief of Staff was a proud looter. You think he's going to prosecute anyone! 😅
The one good thing about your video is looking out at the sky and mountains on a beautiful clear day. I'll bet they trash that park so fast, no one will want to go to it. 😟
make it ten years in prison for theft or damaging public infrastructure
Zero repercussions so why not get some free money...
GIV is first on the news. Good job Mike! 👍
Merry Christmas mike. Wishing you success and good health for 2024. Thank you for all the great videos
You are getting too close to the criminal life in this third-world environment. I hope your electric bike is speedier than the last one.
That part of town is full of hipsters now idk what you are talking about
So they have the same bad habits as the ghetto people?@@JoJo-gr1rp
Stealing copper = "risk going to jail"? Lol, this is California.
No respect in the USA. Not even on Christmas week..
🚫 ‘No Laws - ‘No Consequences !!!🚫💯😎
Good afternoon to the GIV
Good afternoon German in Venice. 🤗. I hope your day is going well and thank you for sharing this. It seems to me most of these young folks and the older folks that have addictions just don’t like anything that is nice that’s the reason why they live in the gutter they want to stay in their zone free world with no responsibilities of nothing, not even themselves and that’s how I feel about it I think it’s disgusting and then we as taxpayers have to pay a high price for individuals that don’t wanna work and have any kind of dignity in life that’s just the way I see it it’s just a shame😮😢
It's doubtful that drug addicts did this. I think you have to have a semi-working brain to remove the copper safely.Most of the addicts are pretty useless when it comes to completing any kind of task.
if you think they care about what people think your sadly mistaken
They let them do what ever they want on that bridge. Thank you very much!
Maybe the cops should enforce the law
Mike. Thanks for sharing the pics of the new bridge and the issues with copper theft. I live in Fort Worth, TX and we have a similar bridge that was built about 10 years ago and the same thing has happened to the lights on it. They are on their 4th version to see if they can create a seal so that thieves can’t remove the cover. Working good so far.
Merry Christmas to u and your Mom..I know its none of my business but you'd look so much better in short hair...😺😇🍀
Mike you really do have a good heart. California fosters bad behavior for degenerates. There is no consequence for doing crappy things. That is why more people have left in the past few years than ever before. I can't imagine one thing that would bring me to visit that place.
Employees from the recycling place right around where I live took the copper out of the bin. Until authorities noticed (a year later) copper worth of € 440.000 were gone.
3rd world.
It was probably even worse in the 80s crack epidemic if you can believe, but it could get to them levels again soon with opiates and fentanyl
Here in Arizona what gets hit hard are the Air Conditioning units that sit outside the home, a vacant home will be targeted within a week that copper is gone inside the unit, some people put prison bars around the unit to prevent copper theft. I was moving into a rental home that was vacant for 3 days so they could clean it, the day I moved in the 2 A/C units in back were destroyed and the landlord had to fork out thousands to replace them.
These videos are comedy gold. "Beautiful" Los Angeles. 😂 Good one! 😂
I know....why does he think it's so 'beautiful'?
I think he's being facetious.
Normal day in LA
Given all of the criminal stuff on the bridge, it seems like they should have cameras, alarms, & other forms of security.
They should not allow vehicles to just park there. Come to think of it,what type of bridge allows for cars to park,even with their hazards on? The people just hanging out there as if they’re on a street corner cause the issues.
Nothing could shock me anymore when it comes to Cali.
NOTHING shocks me anymore period..LOL🐱😇🎄🍀
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City doing a good job, cleaning up the graffiti? Well, the vandals who spray it, are laughing all the way to the store getting (stealing) the next spray can 😂🤣
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This is why the public places can’t have nice things.
$3.89 per pound on copper.
I sure do enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work. I am a subscriber to your channel.😊
You try to fix things up for the community, and some people screw it up for everybody.😡
Copper thief, thanks for sharing this Mike, it helps to get the news out like this. Your better to inform us on things that happen then the news you watch in the afternoon. Thanks Mike. Stay safe.😮 Hope your mother is ok and doing well 🙂
Merry X-Mas GIV. Thx for all your great Vids. Grüße aus Deutschland 🎉
Wow that's nuts . I follow. A young man who drives this bridge. la-oc TH-cam he rides at nite I can't wait to hear what he has to say . Jeremy is his name . Good guy like you .
Sad how so many disrespect the property of others. How did nobody notice the wire getting robbed and report it?
Thank you for sharing I hope you and your mom are going to have a wonderful Christmas I bet she misses you 😊
LA is becoming a Mad Max movie, fr.
This is how it works bro….contractor gets the money for the initial wiring…makes a chunk of money…LA greed sets in so he sends some goons out to open up all the lids and disrupt the wiring…but not too much…the city calls the same contract without the need for an open bid…he comes back and assesses an obscene amount of money to repair…he repairs in half the time he quotes so he get a bonus as well…and BAM….he’s flush with cash again….it’s like the window contractor who sends goons to break the windows he just put it…
It was an unnecessary bridge replacement, there's this scam going around the US claiming that historic bridges need to be replaced at $500m - $1B each for "earthquake response". This is one of them. Gotta make work for the engineers and civil contractors.
No matter where you are, there will always be someone there to ruin things! GUARANTEED! 😢
Yeah last time I checked the 6th Street bridge wasn't on the top 10 list for people to visit in Southern California
The moment I read this story on the news this morning I KNEW that GIV would investigate! Excellent work, Mike. L.A. is going to hell in a bucket. MERRY XMAS! (someone stole the rest of the letters...)
Too bad many of the California people have made their way to the east and Midwest. Now mexicans blast their whack music and drink all day