I was the one who tweeted you about living in downtown LA during the Lakers riots, and dear god I am glad to be out of there this week. My friend is at the apartment now, and I'm getting updates from her as it happens. Plus I'm making her take pictures - it looks so ridiculous.
It's like... I'm surprised that I was surprised at first. These are the people who camped out at malls for the Hot Topic appearances before the first movie came out.
Yeah, I saw them camping at Comic-Con last year, but this hits more close to home for me, I think. Like, I was just there on Sunday night for LAFF and now it's been overrun by Twihards.
I live two miles from the theater and I'm gobsmacked that anyone would willingly sleep there for three nights. It's not the safest neighborhood to be hanging out in at 3 am. Yeah, there's theater security but still, I'm guessing that protecting silly Twihards isn't high on their list. And judging from the photos, a lot of those women look to be in their 30s and 40s. Do they not have jobs? Kids? Husbands? How can they just take off for three days to sleep on sidewalks stained with homeless pee and dog turds?
The Nokia Theatre? LA Live? It's actually not that bad. They've got a ridiculous security team and the Twihards aren't sleeping on just the sidewalk of Fig or Olympic - from what my friend living a couple blocks away tells me, they're straight up camped out in the Nokia Plaza itself.
If they're right in Nokia Plaza, they're probably okay. I guess I'm pessimistic because I have friends who live right by LA Live and after what went down last week after the Lakers championship, I have zero confidence in the security to protect anyone against anything. A friend of mine stood on her balcony and watched a taxi burn.
I was down at LA Live for that whole Lakers deal, and anything to do with that is something the LAPD handled. Then again, I stood on my balcony that night and just watched them marshal troops; I got lucky enough to avoid any of the major rioting.
True about the LAPD. I guess my main point is that it can get really funky at night in downtown LA (for point of reference, I live in the historic core, closer to Main Street, and you really don't want to be strolling around at 3 am), and it's not a place I'd want to be sleeping outdoors, even with LA Live rent-a-cops around.
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