And we continue at two five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wggs in Culver City.
Well, Johnny, we got to start out this hour with a big thanks to this audience, not just in southern California, but in northern California, the Central Valley as well. Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Tax Bear Association announced yesterday that the Save Prop thirteen Act has made the November ballot.
All right.
We were doing those drives at big events at the beginning of this year to get the signatures. The signatures were verified, and this thing's going to be on the November ballot and it does two things. One, it would restore the two thirds majority for all these tax increases that we've seen over the last few years. And this
is the really interesting one. It would ban real estate transfer taxes, which means that if the HJTA measure passes, Measure ULA in the City of la is null and void, and the government of the City of Los Angeles will have to refund everybody that paid that tax over the last four years.
So what you're saying is we get to keep our homes until Karen Bass goes back to Ghana.
Yes, eight hundred.
Two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two to two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is the founder of Morgan and Morgan. He is also the author of a new book called Life Is Luck, available online at Amazon dot com. You can get them online at Fourthepeople dot com. John Morgan, Welcome, how are you. I am great, Thank you so much
for stopping by. And last time you were on, you made everyone in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno, and all points in between jealous because right after the interview you were getting off the phone and you were going to have a monkey Pod my tie in Maui and the rest of us are sitting here at work.
And guess what I did after that? After that monkey Pod my Tie, I had dinner one night with Peter Merriman, who owns the Monkey Pod and Merryman's and a bunch of other restaurants. And I said, Peter, you owe me a lot of my ties. And he said why. I said, I was on one of the most popular radio shows in California, and I plugged the monkey Pod, and I had the tape and I sent it to him. So I got extra my ties for free as a result of plugging the my Ties at the monkey Pod.
Extra my Ties and extra Lily Coy foam. You can't go wrong with that. Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
So you got a new book out that's called Life is Luck. And I love the premise of this, and I'll tell you why. I am a huge fan of athletics. I love sports ever since I was a little kid. I watched the Showtime Lakers. I've watched the Angels lose for decade after decade after decade. I'm all in. And I like to gamble too. I like to play blackjack, I like to play poker. I like all of those games.
And anyone who follows sports closely, or anyone who really truly does enjoy gambling, will tell you that in gambling, for example, there's a book, and there's a certain way you're supposed to play blackjack, and if you play by the book, you will win more often than if you don't play by the book. But it doesn't matter how much you study it. It doesn't matter how familiar you are with the rules, and with the statistics and with the odds. If the cards don't go your way, you're
not gonna win. And you need a certain amount of luck in addition to the skill of being a player who knows what they're doing to win at blackjack or any other game.
Well, that's exactly right, and it's the cards that are dealt. So the book is kind of like this, Look, we're all dealt certain cards, but it's not necessarily the cards we're dealt, but how we play those cards in blackjack. If you're sitting on sixteen and you hit on sixteen, you really deserve to lose, because that's not what the book says. And so I take I spend a whole chapter on casino gambling and the odds of luck and
the house's edge. By the way, the worst luck for any game is keno, which is you're just.
Going to lose.
But I spend a lot of time talking about the cards we're dealt. And in life, you know, luck comes in all forms or fashion, and it doesn't come just sitting there. The way you get luck is you look for luck, you look for opportunities. And so what I did is last year they had me on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a billionaire. And when I thought, when I saw it, it was like stunning, like how did
this happen? And I started going back through my life and I was like, it's really nothing but a series of one thousand left turns, a thousand right turns, a thousand U turns, and all of a sudden you wake up in your here and one different turn, everything's different. I'll bet you if I was to ask you, what was the one moment in your career, what was the left or right turn in your career that brought you here, it would be a lucky day, a lucky call.
You went here instead of there.
Something happened, and it's a whole series of life. Now, when I looked at my life, the thing that really struck me the most is I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was a paper boy, and I have found in life that paper boys had an entrepreneurial seed. Early on, in a paper route's very hard. It's every day it's rain, sleet, and snow, except in California, and it start that lucky seed, that entrepreneurial seed that Warren Buffett calls the Ovarian lottery
comes early and where you're born. Hey, there's eight billion people in the world, but where would you want to be born? Right here? Right here in the United States of America. We had nothing to do with it. We weren't born in Cameroon or Karen Basgana. We were born in America. That it's lucky. And so the whole book is kind of taking luck, not saying that we're everything we did was lucky, but saying a lot of it came from luck. But with luck comes looking for opportunity.
So it's not my life story, but it's stories from my life, from my businesses, my attractions, my hotels, my law firm, shopping centers. And I think it's a practical book for people. It's kind of a how to book to be successful. One of the things that the same time, go ahead, no, go ahead, go ahead and finish. I was gonna say, but at the same time, because what I say to people, you know, ninety nine percent of what happened to me is luck. They don't want to
hear that, especially successful people. They want to say, I did it all on my own. But if you really look at what happened, a lot of it was luck, not not necessarily blind luck, because there's luck and practice luck. But for example, you like sports, how many times do you think Villanova beats Georgetown if they play that game one hundred times? Again, how many times do you think Duke loses this year if they play that game one hundred There's just a lot of balls. That about the
immaculate reception with Frank co Harris. You go through life and there's been a lot of lucky breaks. There's bad luck, there's good luck, and this book is how to enhance and find luck and turn failure into your friend.
One of the things that I've learned from you appearing on this show and other programs is that you are a very good listener. There's not a lot that gets by you. When someone's talking, You're paying attention to what they're saying, and if they answer a question that you're thinking of, you make a mental note of it. If they present an opportunity that you were unaware of before, you acknowledge that opportunity and you know that that's on the table.
It seems to me that a lot of the people.
Out there who have bad luck are people who are awful listeners, and sometimes the answers to their questions are right in front of their face. But if you don't stop talking and running people over all around you, you're unaware that all of these lucky situations have prevented, have presented themselves to you, or the answers to your questions are right there in front of you. You don't even see it because you're running everyone over.
Right and and you and you're all you're doing is talking. And when all you're doing is talking, you're not learning. You can't learn talking. You can only learn by listening. And the more you listen, the more you learn, and the more you learn, the more oppertunity tunities come your way. And the more opportunities that come your way, the more luck falls into your lap.
It's funny when you think about people who are truly successful in whatever industry you're talking about, they're listeners. John Wooden, the basketball coach. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some time around him before he passed away. He was a man of few words, but man, there was nothing that got by him. That guy picked up on everything that went on at that table, and the next time you saw him, he would remember everything that was said.
And he had it all built in that pyramid. You know, he had that John Wooden pyramid of to do's and don'ts. And the great thing about John Wooden, if you look at all the players, they all loved him. Loved him. Kareem, who's the most prickly played ever, loved John Wooden because he listened and that's why he was and is the Wizard of the Westwood What.
Advice would you give people who regard themselves as storm clouds? Because there are people who don't do regard themselves as storm clouds where they think that if there's a fork in the road, they're going to take the wrong road every single time. What advice would you give them to get out of that rut.
Well, first I would tell them you have no choice but to take one of the roads. Wayne Gretzky said, you know, if you never take a shot, you never make a goal. I would tell him, tell them, don't take one fork in the road, take a hundred. It's like the lottery. The more lottery balls you have, the better chance you have to win the lottery. What happens is people go down that one road and it turns out to be a bad road, and that's the end
of the road for them. When you get to a bad place in the road, you got to back up, turn around, come back out, go back down the road, pick yourself up, and try again, because if you don't try again, you never win ever. And so what I would tell the storm clouds is this focus on the positive, not on the negative. You meet people all the time the glass is half full, the glass is half empty. For me, the glass is always half full. And it's
because I believe in me. I believe in me, And so I would tell these people when you have a black cloud over yourself, it's because you don't believe in yourself. And if you don't believe in yourself, nobody's going to believe in you.
What you just said is so similar to advice that William Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco or Ayatola of the California State Legislature, gave at a talk when I was an undergraduate in college. And the advice that he gave was in life plan A very rarely works out, and the secret sauce to success is to have nine hundred and thirty two plan bs because the likely scenario is that it's going to be one of your plan BS that takes always.
My children know this. I have a thing in my with my family and I call it ABC. They know what that means and what ABC means. And the Morgan family is this. When somebody says you know, sometimes I well, they they'll.
Say ABC, which means.
If A goes wrong, what's your B? And if B goes wrong, what's your C. The Morgan children always have an A, A B, and a C because things don't always go right. And if you don't have a plan for B, then you don't have a plan. And if you don't have a plan for C, you don't have a plan. And what I write in my book Life is Luck is this. Hope is not a plan. A plan is a plan, and a lot of people start off without a plant. Look, the most successful people in
the world have goals. The most successful people in the world usually write those goals down. Every year. I write three goals down of what I want to accomplish during the year, and I go back to them over and over and over again during the year. When you have real goals. A lot of people don't have goals. You know, they don't have a plan and they're just hoping that it's gonna that it's going to work out for them. Well,
that's not how it works. It only works for you if you are working and and like one of my chapters has called, never eat alone. If you're eating at your desk every day, if you're not getting out there and mingling, whether you're at a clee or at convention or a lunch, then your lunch is going to be eating you. If you're eating peanut butter and jelly in the office every day, you're you are not going to be as successful as the guy or gal out there
networking and hustling. Because remember this, everybody out there hustling, they're trying to take your lunch. They're trying to take your business every day, and you're sitting in the office, you know, eating peanut butter and jelly and playing solitaire.
Of all of the politicians that you've worked with and gotten to know over the years, which one has been the best at finding luck?
Of Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton, he's you know, he's resilient. To be to have luck, you got to have a lot of things. You have to be resilient, you have to be tenacious, you have to have grit, you have to have ambition, you have to be teflon. I mean Clinton can also compartmentalize like nobody else. I mean, I don't even know how he was walking during the Monica Lewinsky thing. I had dinner with him and my boys had dinner three or four months ago here in Orlando.
And this guy has gone through life looking for luck, and I think he's been the luckiest one of everybody. And even now in this political system, you'll find that Republicans probably like Bill Clinton as their as the Democrat they like the most by and large. I mean, you say Kamala, they vomit. But when you say Bill Clinton, well you say Clinton, They're like, well, I liked him.
And so when you can start getting Republicans like you as a Democrat, that's pretty lucky because there because Republicans don't Mike, don't like me Democrats at all.
Is it true that he's on some crazy diet now and won't eat meat and will only eat certain things and won't consume.
You're the funny thing he's eating. He's eating meat now. We had a steak at play called Chathams. We were having I said, do you want some wine? And uh, his hands his left hand kind of his left hand. His handshakes and it's not it's not, it's not Parkinson's. And he said to me, he said, at dinner, he says, my doctor said, if I have a glass of wine, my hand will stop shaking for three hours. I said, well, why don't you have four and let's stay for twelve
dollars and get drunk. But he stopped eating meat for a while, and he had the heart problems. He went totally vegan or vegan or however you say it. I'm from Kentucky. But he's now said that his doctor and he had a steak that night. He had a steak that night, and he had wine, and he had porked and we had a hell all the time. The dinner started at seven point thirty and we left at midnight.
Oh my, oh yeah, I'll tell you. I don't know how it happened.
But there's a clip of George Burns on the Tonight Show from the Old Days with Johnny Carson that showed up in one of my feeds, and I just clicked on the video and I watched it, and he's sitting there smoking a cigar during the interview, and Johnny Carson goes to him and says, those things are going to kill you. What is your doctor say to you when you're sitting here just chain smoking these cigars, and Burns just looked at him and goes, my doctor's been dead for a long time.
Hey, I'll tell you what. Here's one for you. I'm watching years ago, Johnny Carson. You remember Chee Chee Rodriguez.
Oh, yeah, the golfer.
So he's on first and he's doing this Puerto Rican golfer had this big thing he did, like a sword, and so he moves down the couch and they bring in this runway model or some beautiful girl and they're talking about diets and the Johnny says. The girl says, do you ever eat meat? And she goes, no, I never eat meat. It's so bad for you. It's so terrible for you. And Johnny says, to Chee Chee, Chee chee, do you eat meat? He said? He said, Johnny, I had steak for breakfast, I have steak for lunch, and
I have a steak for dinner every single day. And the girl looks said to him. He goes, She goes, you're going to kill yourself. And he said, sweetheart, let me ask you a question. You ever seen a Sikh tiger? And I never forgot that. You know, you know?
Have you ever seen all.
Right tiger up against the heartbreak?
You'll have it, John, I gotta run.
The book is Life Is Luck?
Available online at Amazon dot com.
John Morgan, thanks so much for stopping by.
All right, Thank you man.
Bye.
Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't Like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com.
And Randy.
With the end of the show quickly approaching, if you want to continue listening to us after we sign off at three, that's easy to do.
I want to tell you right now, if you're just tuning in right now and you and hear that last interview with John Morgan, which we've gotten a ton of emails. People loved that interview. If you didn't get to hear the entire thing, it's pretty fantastic. So I will have that podcast posted at like three o two three oh three, But if you're subscribed to the podcast, it automatically goes to your phone as soon as I posted, but uh, subscribe just for that interview. It was very fun, It
was very inspiring. Great job.
All right, Well, I could talk to that guy all day long. Always a fascinating interview. Got me thinking about my ties, you bastard. All right, Well, let's get you thinking about something else. Let's open up the California Crime Blodder.
It's happened yet again.
This wow, Wow, what's up here?
Dun Dun dunk Dunn, dundun Dun reads the Califonia Crime Blodder.
With John.
And Surprise, Surprise.
The first edition of today's californ and Your Crime Bladder takes us to the city of Oakland.
Come out of Crime Now.
Copper wire theft is plaguing the Oakland Hills. For more, here is Crime four.
Our top story this half hour. Copper wire thieves are targeting a neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, triggering repeated internet outages for residents. Crown four is Sarah Stinson. How's the story, Copper.
It's got to be so frustrating if you're working from home, or even doing something as simple as streaming us online on KSFO.
Or how about this trying to drive in the dark.
Copper has been stolen from these power pools several times in the last week, resulting and frustrating outages for people who live nearby in the Oakland Hills. Cruise with AT and T spent Tuesday afternoon repairing damage from yet another round of copper theft.
Now I know my cell phone bill is so expensive.
Reach out and touch someone.
The company says. Thieves targeted cables along a walk path on Skyline Boulevard near Keller Avenue, cutting both copper and fiber lines. An AT and T spokesperson confirming at least two separate outages triggered by the cuts on April fifteenth and sixteenth, each lasting about five hours.
That also affects my TV because I use the internet service for my TV, for my streaming, and obviously my computer service.
Okay, of those five hours that the internet and the TV was out, how many of those five hours did he spend constantly trying to connect to the Wi Fi and be like it's not working.
Oh yeah.
He was definitely on the line with someone from India going have you tried unplugged?
And good?
You don't realize how addicted to this crap you are until the Internet gets shut off for an extended period of time and you're like, I don't know what to do with myself.
Now, people get the shakes.
That also affects my TV because I use the internet service for my TV, for my streaming, and obviously my computer service.
Yeah, so I was out for a while.
Definitely for my works, I work from home and my daughter is online for her master's degree.
There's an old Simpsons joke where the dog rips out the cable line for the whole neighborhood, so everyone loses their TV and this emergency alert signal goes out and says, your cable line has been cut. Don't try to do any sexual activity with your partner because the years and years and years of television radiation has left your genitals withered.
Definitely for my work because I work from home and my daughter is online for her master's degree. So yeah, it was interrupted.
For neighbors like Nancy Taylor, it's not just an inconvenience but also a safety concern that these.
Are right right in my backyard. Yeah, so that does make me very nervous.
At and t says. Police reports have been filed and its global security team is now working with Oakland Police property crimes investigators. Meanwhile, the most maybe simple copper is currently selling for about four dollars and fifty cents a pound.
Doesn't sound like a lot, does it.
Nope, but meth is expensive.
Well that's the problem. Meth is actually cheap. Two pounds of that, I'll get you a teenth.
Meanwhile, the motive may be simple. Copper is currently selling for about four dollars and fifty cents a pound. This, according to scrap Monster, cameras have been.
In Wait, there's a website called scrap Monster.
There's a website for everything.
Well, and here's the thing. Every single time. The thing that drives me crazy about this story is unlike every other commodity. If you steal deodorant at write Aid, well, no, right a went out of your business. If you steal deodorant at Walgreens, you go sell it in the mission at some stand We know that's happening. But if you're stealing copper wire, there are very specific businesses you have
to sell it to. So why is it so hard for city attorneys or the attorney general or the Secretary of state to shut down the businesses that are buying stolen copper wire. For as much as we say you got to have a permit for everything in this state, shouldn't you have to have a permit to be a licensed seller of copper seems easy enough to me.
This According to scrap Monster, cameras have been installed on the power poles to catch potential thieves in the act, but for many in the area, confidence in a long term fix is low, as copper thefts have continued to plague the Bay area for years.
Well, it's a problem, yeah, and I don't know what you can do about it. Police in the city has an issue on the hands, and I don't know.
How to deal with it.
Yeah.
That sounds pretty defeatist, but sounds pretty on point.
Sounds like just about every man on the street interview in the Blotterer stories.
Yeah.
I would love something to be happening to fix this problem so that way we can all live in a peaceful community and not worry about.
These thiefs.
We reached out to the City of Oakland and police, but did not hear back in time for this report. AT and T is offering a twenty thousand dollars reward for specific information that leads to an arrest and conviction of a copper wire thief.
You know who we need on this. If AT and T is offering twenty k is dog the bounty hunter still doing his thing.
Okay, but they give the twenty thousand dollars reward, we catch the person and then the judge in Alameda County lets them out immediately.
Well, there is that, and this is not considered any kind of a serious crime or a violent crime. And because they value not on the damaged cause, but on the actual value of the copper, which as you heard, is pretty minimal, this does not qualify. This is still is under Prop forty seven nonsense of this is a misdemeanor, even though these thefts can cause millions and millions of dollars worth of damage, because the copper isn't actually that
expend CIV. They're getting nine hundred and fifty dollars or less in the fact that they're causing.
Or information that leads to someone trying to buy or sell these stolen cables. I'm Sarah Stinson, reporting in Oakland, KRAWN for News.
It would be so maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that it would be pretty easy to crack down on the junkers and the smelters and the recyclers. Maybe the dogs are buying stolen copper wire.
It's possible.
All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.
It's happened yet again.
Nice see. Time for the California Crime Blodder and this edition takes us to San Jose.
Typically, when you go to a store, like, let's say, a bakery in a city like San Jose, the way that the system is set up is that you want to buy something and you give them money. A crazy man walks into a San Jose bakery, not wanting to buy something, but wanting to sell something. What that something was, we don't know. And when the bakery said, no, we don't want to buy that, he decided to trash the place.
That's not nice.
For more, here's KTVU Fox two in the Bay.
San Jose police announce the arrest of a man who they say terrorized workers and customers at a longtime bakery just before the holidays last year. And it was all caught on video. And the suspect was recently located halfway across the country in the state of Arkansas. KTV is South Bay reporter Mark Sera. That's the story from San Jose.
Peter's Bakery has been a staple on Alamrock Avenue in East San Jose for ninety years. First established in nineteen thirty six, Customer Sheila Lamel says she has been coming here for nearly her entire life.
It tastes good.
They make a product, you know, and everybody loves it. There's nothing. I've never had a bad cake from.
There, but now forty four, I don't want to judge anybody, but sometimes you can just tell in somebody's voice that they have had too much cake. I mean, you do you. I'm just saying, as somebody that used to be one hundred pounds heavier, fat is a sound.
You think she's a chocoholic, huh.
But now, forty four year old Eugene Morgan is under arrest for a rampage at the bakery, which occurred on December seventeenth of twenty twenty five. It was all caught on security video as the person identified as Morgan began to damage items inside the business after employees declined to purchase some products that he was apparently trying to sell.
What was he trying to sell the bakery.
We probably don't want to know.
A customer who was inside at the time was also assaulted when she was trying to record the incident.
The suspect like the scene, hired a police arrival, and the Daulphinal victim received medical attention on site.
Santase police said detectives were aware that Morgan may have been in Arkansas, but it was a chance arrest on unrelated trespassing charges when Arkansas authorities discovered the outstanding warrant from San Jose.
No matter where you flee, you can flee out of city, in this case, out of state. We are able to find you and hold you accountable and make sure you come back to face the consequences.
In a statement, Kat Peters, the owner of the bakery, said, this situation has always been about much more than a single small business or a specific individual. It is about the fundamental safety of every community member, patron, and neighbor who shares our public spaces. Our deepest hope now is that the District Attorney's office and the judges will do their part in the next steps of this process.
I'm glad they shouted out the judges because they got a good da out there in Santa Clara County, but it's the judges that throw the hammer into all of this.
Maybe he told the baker.
That he could help them cut down on their labor costs if he sold them some kebler elves. Maybe that's what he was trying to do, or who knows, maybe he was sex trafficking little Debbie.
It is crucial for the safety of our entire community that individuals who commit acts of violence are held fully accountable and that they are not simply released back into the populace. When you heard that the police arrest of the guys, that good.
News for Yes, that is good news for customers.
Who makes us feel safe too.
Morgan has already been extradited back to California and is now facing charges of felony vandalism and felony intimidation of a witness with violence reporting in San Jose. Mark Sayer k TVU Fox two News.
There's the story of the crazy guy that tried to destroy a bakery because they weren't buying what he was selling.
Eight hundred two two two five two two two easy telephone number what eight hundred two two two five two two two if you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. Johnny don't like showt gmail dot com. And right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blaters.
To catch its dummy.
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
I said, hell, no, bad boy, let me get up one out of here.
It's the California Crime Bloater and Randy.
This one takes us to the San Fernando Valley yet again. There was one neighborhood and I was thinking about it yesterday when we were doing all those stories where Selmar got hit and North Hollywood got hit and Teluca Light got hit, and you got so many different neighborhoods that were getting hit from these things.
Granada Hills. I'm like, you know, the only one they haven't said is Tarzana. Welcome this morning. Woman in Tarzana got burglarized and now she wants to move. Here's Katla.
Residents who live in the San Fernando Valley are living in fear as burglaries and break ins spike.
And to by that crackdown that Karen Bass and police, Jim McDonald announced a few days ago is really working, isn't it like a Swiss clock.
Another victim, this time in Tarzana, is speaking out, telling KTLA she plans to move after being victimized multiple times.
KTLA's Chris Wolf Live in Tarzana with more on the growing problem in the valley.
Chris, that's right.
Micah Share, the victim we spoke with exclusively tonight, says that the City of Los Angeles must funnel more money into the police department and law enforcement resources.
Yeah, we can't do that.
Oh no, we have the social workers to pay for.
Karen Bass did in her budget announced that, Okay, we've got five hundred police officers budgeted to meet up with attrition, which means we're still going to be at the lowest level. But I've also funded the Circle program, which is the ambassador program, and of course the crisis response program. And then she was asked, well, which one of these people would you send out to the guy that lit somebody on fire last night, and she said, oh no, that would be the police.
It's impacting everybody now, it's everywhere, and we don't want to live in fear like this anymore. We don't want to feel like we can't be safe in our own homes.
As a model and actress, appearing on magazine covers, in movies, and on The Price Is Right, Gabrielle.
Too, that's an interesting list of credits. Wait as a model or a contestant.
Good question, Gabrielle to Itt is accustomed to being in front of the camera, but never like this, as a victim of home burglaries three within the last couple of years, involving two different properties and neighborhoods.
What do you think would be your best game on The Price Is Right? The Showcase Showdown, Baby, Showcase Showdown, not planco It goes too much luck. You know what Lewis told me, I'm afraid to ask. He said, Katie Hill cannot be beat at a hole in one or two.
I'm proud of yourself.
I'm asking these people to stop stop harming the people that are here, loving and supporting everybody.
In true well, whether it's the local gangs of the transnational gangs. They don't care about hurting people.
No, they don't.
Intruders hit her home in Sherman Oaks twice. The most recent break in happened at her new house in Tarzana another upscale community in the San Fernando Valley.
I don't know if I would call Tarzana upscale. It's fine, but I would not call it upscale. Well compared to Van Eys, it is well. There is that.
On Wednesday, April eighth, thugs smashed a glass.
Door to get you know what, I actually think this is going to be brilliant. There was a big push in the seventies and eighties to change a lot of the names in the neighborhood in the valley to up property values. So parts of Van Eyes became like Balboa, parts of North Hollywood became Studio City and Valley Village. Maybe what we need to do in order to deter the criminals from going to these neighborhoods is change those names back.
On Wednesday, April eighth, thugs smashed a glass door to gain entry and then pride open a bolted closet door to snatch her belongings.
Obviously they just used a crowbar and just crank this piece.
Off to it tells kt LA she's lost more than one million dollars in heirlooms, jewelry, and other valuables following the three crimes.
Whoa getting expensive.
Has to do something.
This is outrageous to It speaks for countless others. The San Fernando Valley has become a hotbed of home break ins in twenty twenty six.
But don't you worry crime is down?
Oh yeah, if you were smart enough to understand the statistics, you would know that.
This week alone, thieves tried to break into a home in Sherman Oaks overnight but were unsuccessful. A short time earlier, across town in Westwood, criminals were able to force their way inside a home that was occupied at the time.
Well, at least I can feel good that the crime is still happening on the other side of the hill.
No one was injured and items were stolen. Kt LA has covered similar crimes in Silmar, Porter Ranch and Valley Glen within recent days, with security cameras often capturing menacing figures wearing hoodies, masks and gloves. LA Mayor Karen Bass says she wants to hire more police officers and of course provide funding for that police chief Jim mc
Yeah, that's lip service, one hundred percent.