Copper thefts keep Oakland from replacing stoplights at intersection
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Oakland removed the traffic lights from one intersection and replaced them with 4-way stop signs due to people stealing copper and then tampering with an electrical box. Da Lin reports. (5-17-24)
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Isn’t Oakland the shittiest place ever. Always on the news for all the wrong reasons. 😂😂
Been for years my dad told me that back in 70's
You're thinking of Oakland. This news report is about a different place that's called _San Francisco Bay Municipality of Oakland._ You can just call it SF for short.
@@DemPilafian I am aware but you're also right when you say SF. :)
@@gauravaws20 If you ever visit SF, I have a bad feeling you're going to end up at the wrong airport.
Soon America will look like this
What's next, the stop signs being stolen for scrap metal or decoration?
Give it time!
Oh Wow, thanks for the idea!
Why didn’t I think of that ?
I need something for our drawing/piano room @ the estate (just off East 14th)
It's not a matter of if they get stolen, but when? Being oakland, its a guaranteed safe bet that the signs will get stolen for scrap metal.
These are south of the border folk Thankfully laws are racist so this can go on forever till we collapse
IF it were really as they say, they would have already done that.,...
So that's what giving up looks like
Just another normal day in oakland
FYI folks $24B budget got disappeared in CA books.
The money was supposed to be used for solving homelessness crisis.
IF they use the money to house the homeless, the money will stop coming in. Greed prevails.
You know where it went…
Give a link
The Armenians took it
@@XanderRadevThat housing would require 24 billion a year in maintenance
Oakland so bad and so broke, even the stoplights are beginning to move to Las Vegas.
arent streets and traffic normally run by state departments
@@jonnym4670No, Local government.
2:55 guess they took that billboard’s advice!
It’s all run by democrats
The poorest man in Oakland is J. Paul Ghetto.
Funny! Every time there’s a new story about crime, homeless, crime, etc. the worthless mayor is never heard from. But I am sure she will be at the next press conference bragging about how crime is down!
🤣 been fooled
I've been moved
It's because people don't call 911 anymore.
Both L.A. and S.F. have a woman for Mayor and both city have much the same problem.
crime IS down, because theft isn't considered crime
Hey at least crime is down, because its no longer reported!
Reported, DA doesnt prosecute, no prosecution no crime. Simple logic
Ur kidding me , no traffic lights 🚦 because of theft 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
U can build one and replace lol.. difficult stuff
In Californiastan is normal 🤡
These same thieves would sue the city/county if they get into an accident because the lights were out after their theft, then turn around and steal the wire out of the communications box. (FYI I know most of those boxes probably contain fiber optic now. I’m just using them as an example)
They aren't the smartest ran state.
Yup liberals are just stupid
Imagine not arresting the criminal who is stealing electricity
The wire is clearly connecting the RV to the box, and yet nothing is done to the thief nor the wire. Crazy!
@@JoeOvercoat Your right, I read a lot of complaints about the Mayor, but the DA Pamela Price seems to criminal friendly. I mean you can arrest the guy but he’ll be out in a few hours. I really don’t get it. 🤷🏽
Wakandians lives matter
Exactly! You can be sure that if a homeowner did this, they would be arrested and fined.
@@trekker1961 she's awful, Actual Justice Warrior talks about her. Shootout killing a innocent person, no jail time.
The only businesses that are thriving in this area are prostitutes and weed dispensaries. Sad.
What's sad is you thinking either of those professions aren't legitimate.
Weed dispensaries are getting robbed as well ..
No one & nothing is safe
@@TheRealWickedMelon Nobody wants to raise a family in a neighborhood with marijuana and prostitutes.
Don’t forget fast food Mexican greasy chorrroo food 🤡
And the scumbag homeless charities. Billions of dollars given to these scumbags.
So... instead of arresting the people committing the thefts you endanger public safety by taking away traffic lights at a busy intersection. Is there something in the water out there?
In the water? There are needles, dirty trousers, even bodies.
Their DA is of the mind that if u let people get away with crime it will stop eventually.....when everyone leaves...or dies
*Oakland is going GREEN. good for them.* 🤣
How third world 🇺🇸
Even the "third world" laughs at the USA these days
No, it's just California. California is in a state of decline.
He loves how diverse it is though.
@@lambertlum1087New York as well.
@user-rl7mt4gh3o…WRONG!! 😂😂
People need to stop with the bleeding heart compassion for the homeless and criminals. Start with that.
But that's who Oakland is!
Fr fr
@@eeddieedwards3890lmao😂
It looks like Nigeria
So you've never seen Nigeria, cool.
@@TheRealWickedMelon Nigeria Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch... oh wait, it's Nigeria not Niagara, my bad.
No way, Nigeria and the people there are better in every way.
E. 12th has looked like the trash heaps I observed in West Africa since at least the pandemic. It's inexcusable.
Electricity cable theft is definitely a South Africa style problem.
We have to stop letting criminals from dictate how we live our lives
Better yet vote for those that care and will actually make a difference not the same oh democrats in CA they are drowning in crime and still vote overwhelmingly democrat how sad no change there
Yeah we need a war on drugs, Oh wait..........It failed because it was just really a war on minorities.
Welcome to Oakland America's first Purge city.
Escape from oakland sounds like a good horror movie to me.
I think kurt Russell going to be too old😂😂😂😂
Survival in Oakland might be better!🤣
No way! Escape from Oakland would be the feel-good movie of the year.
@@samueledward5078 I like Jeremy Renner for the part. Just no eyepatch
@mocast0974 our heros escape and make it to San Francisco only to get robbed and murdered in San fran. Tragic but so true.
" I love this neighborhood; I love how diverse it is" says a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. Just amazing how willfully ignorant our fellow citizens are.
They are democrats what you expect
They have to touch 🔥 to know it 🥵
This is what the end of societies looks like.
No, it's not.
@@TheRealWickedMelon Yeah, it is. You can't have a civil society if you allow uncivilized individuals to take over. That just creates anarchy, which is what you have in Oakland.
The weirdest thing is watching someone on the Bart pop open a maintenance box to plug in and charge their phone
USB plugs should be readily available on all public transit vehicles, stations, and stops. When infrastructure is inadequate, people will make their own solutions.
I’ve seen MUCH weirder things than that on Bart 😂
@@danieldaniels7571pay for your own electricity
@@danieldaniels7571 You underestimate the type of people who use public transit in these types of cities and the destruction they cause on a daily basis.
I work for a transit authority and there are at least 5 daily cases of vandalism involving the very expensive glass that goes on the coach windows and doors.
These USB plugs wouldn't last a day and would contribute to the issue of crime on public transit. They invite homeless onto vehicles and many end up causing disturbances, fights, and other issues on the vehicles.
Instead, we provide them at the transit centers on a 1-hour time limit. They can plug into the outlet with their own charger or use the integrated USB plug at 5 watts. After the hour is up, they have to move on to allow others a chance to charge. It's not an optimum solution but it sure beats not having anything at all.
Gavin, destroyer of cities.
Yes, because Gavin is the sole reason corporate capitalism has made people so desperate for money that they steal copper wire. 🙄 Smh. Open your eyes to the bigger picture. Newsom is a very minute part of the problem.
Gavin : He’s a viper in a suit. He can sell hot coals to the Devil himself, because they are first cousins 👆🏽😂.
And yes, he’s pushing this once great State further down the drain….
These perpetrators ( of ALL crime and disorder) are running the show in Oakland and NOT the actual Mayor and the departments for which she oversees!
It funny seeing people move here to Texas from California finding the same things thinking WTF. LOL Florida is worse than California, How is that it's red?
Mississippi is the deepest red state and is the poorest not just the most racist.
Welcome to California, where the criminals outsmart law enforcement.😂
What law enforcement?
That says alot because these criminals are pretty dumb
detroit CA. man how many RVs are parked there. do what you want but dont blame others.
There are so many trashed motorhomes all over California.
Detroit is much better
Whoa, why Detroit gotta catch strays😂😂
ya Detroit is way way better than this sh**hole.. get a clue
@@1MTWnormal for detriot, number 2 in nation for violent crime.
The homeless are like dandelions: if you don't uproot the first one immediately, they will take over in no time. Being soft on and compassionate to the homeless is to be cruel to and dismissive of everyone else.
AND THEY LITERALLY KEEP VOTING FOR THIS
Geniuses like you believe the election was stolen.
As Oakland likes to highlight it to the world "First electric free community ran 4 way stop" *While blasting I'm feeling myself in the backgrouns* . Oakland is a virtue signalers dream
Oakland AKA little Haiti 🇭🇹, my radical leftist liberal friends
THEY RATHER DO THIS THAN STOP CRIME.......... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Impound the RV for stealing electricity.
That’s what would happen in my community.
I hope Da Lin is getting paid well. He is a genuinely great reporter and always covers stories of actual interest.
How progressive
Brigader
@@matteframe that's literally not a word
Oakland has poor city management. That is why I left San Jose
San Jose or Oakland?
Ha
Democrat city management.
Just make sure you don’t leave cali and your good
Don’t leave cali
If someone ever tells you that
Its bad advice
Soon enough Oakland will go back to the stone ages at this rate. Hello Flintstones
PETA will not allow the employment of animals in the ways it was done on the Flintstones.
PETA will not allow the employment of animals in the ways it was done on the Flintstones.
So, if you're stealing electricity, and the cops can easily trace the wiring to your RV, then why aren't you arrested?
Or is it easier to just let PG&E raise rates on people to cover the losses from these thefts?
And if you disable a traffic light and a crash occurs, why aren't you arrested? If Al Queda or ISIS hacked into government computers and disabled a traffic light to cause injuries or death to people, wouldn't they get arrested?
Should the tourists who are flying into the newly-renamed airport be told to avoid that intersection?
RIP Oakland.
This is what happens when you vote for people who live in the Oakland/Berkeley Hills, NOT Oakland . These homeless enchantments aside from being a fire hazards and human trafficking areas, are literally making Oakland to go into a recession. Causing more people to become homeless . In Comparison look at Alameda how dealt with the problem. They’re going to build more housing than any city in the area (On an island btw) and they’re breaking up camps to stop Crime. Stop voting for people who don’t actually live in the city. they only care about pretending to look liberal, Not actually solving problems.
Being a "liberal" and "solving problems" is an oxymoron.
@@Truelib99Hobbes but aren't the effects reaching into the hills now?
I'm sure they'll vote for the next Democrat to fix the problem!
Yet they keep providing most of the tax dollars
"enchantments" lol go read a book
I think Oakland needs the great president Nayib Bukele to clean up that dump.
He would put all the criminals in jail! 😤
He’s racist to all the Karens living in Californiastan 🤣😂🤣
Just vote trump already if not
The us of A will become 3rd world
Well if the left wants us to strictly be governed by the constitution fine 😂
The bay is so progressive! Beautiful!
WORSE than 3rd World.
😂😂😂😂😂 okay, delusional
U haven't been to 3rd world. It's bad. This is not even close
Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.
Americas future
It looks a lot like Mexico
Sad that a city can’t uphold the law. Mayor is a failure. Remove from office. Hold those accountable! Arrest and don’t release.
Have to laugh at those who would lock everyone up. America ALREADY has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world. More jails! Bigger jails! Longer sentences! More guns! Always the American answer to everything.
I've seen it all, now. lmao
Never say that you have seen it all. Democrats take that as a challenge to create more chaos.
Keep it classy California
haha, Oakland is devolving.
@@jayo9750 Lololol!! I spit my coffee up with that one!!!
Devolving? Yes, a certain segment of it, anyway.
Glad you're amused..🙄
It’s not the thieves, it’s the city and state leaders failing to make crime pay.
Use candles
Just like they do in the shanty towns in South Africa.
I see them starting fires all the time, stinking up the entire block.
Before electricity gas was used for street lighting.
Little known fact:
Traffic cameras have over 2 and a half pounds of copper wire in them.
Just Sayin' 🙂👍
There are fences somewhere that's buying all that copper, and selling it for large profit in some company turning a blind eye.
pam price making oakland great
Warriors gone from oakland to SF too!!
@@daboiikev6955surprised the Athletics and Roots SC haven’t jumped ship by now like the Raiders have
Thank goodness the stop signs aren’t made of copper!
Must be rich folks parked on the side of the streets in them RV's. Got so much bills to pay, I can't even afford a tent.
What could possibly go wrong in Oakland, California??? Absolutely stunning beyond belief. 😁🤣🤪😂😆😄😊👌
failed culture. dont tell pammy price or the mayor that though
This is America now
@@NONETHELESS213 this is blue states/cities America now. Good old red states and red cities will actually arrest and prosecute.
@@NONETHELESS213 Correction; This is America in the BLUE cities.
At what point does the community of Oakland say enough? I know the city is struggling but at one point the community needs to put their effort to stop their city from falling apart.
Defund the police they said
Wtf does that have to do with this? Oh, that's right, nothing. Copper wire theft isn't new, nor is it something that police would be able to do something about unless there was an officer literally sitting watching all the electrical in the cities. You're just the typical brainwashed right winger thinking they have a clue when they don't. If capitalism wasn't destroying the country and making people unreasonably poor, they wouldn't be stealing copper wire. Dare you to try some independent media and stop suckling mainstream bs.
Literally no one defunded anything tho
Do elaborate on how a Bradley IFV would help this situation.
When a shed is turned in to a house and the government says it's worth $100,000. Something is wrong.
Truck crashes into repair shop. 😂 IRONY!!!
Mr. Le must have been like
🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
🤣
Why bother to put the lights back up? The stop signs don't cost anything to operate and maintain. In my small town, they took out 3 red/green/yellow traffic lights right downtown and, replaced them with 4 way stops.. Traffic has never flowed better!
Exactly! More unnecessary traffic lights should be removed.
I approve this. Traffic lights suck.
Dude thinking a 4 way stop is better must not have experience with 4 way stops... accidents incoming.
How many people can actually count to four?
Depending on the level of traffic, a 4-way stop could be substantially better.
@@danieldaniels7571no not in a city full of dipshits a four way stop is accidents waiting to happen.
You have got to be kidding me. What a world.
And to think folks want to build a San Antonio neighborhood bart station- totally blind and oblivious to this massive encampment.
Meanwhile the Oakland coliseum parking lot is just sitting there. Oakland could set up showers, food and services inside the old Oracle arena. And give free A's tickets so the stadium looks full
Baseball is so boring, not even the homeless would avail themselves of that offer if they had to suffer through more than a few innings.
Hamsterdam.
@@anthonycharles-d5i back to your exciting phone game kid....
Vote Democrat - insert chaos.
He's Da Lin.
The news guy's voice-over work is hilarious to me.
Defund the police tho right guys?😂
pamela thought of this all by herself
Here’s a thought… how about more roundabouts and less stop lights. We need less stop lights anyways and they always require maintenance even before accounting for copper theft.
I’m all for more all-way stops and less stop lights. Not enough space for a proper roundabout here, though.
ROUNDABOUTS SUCK. Move to England if you want roundabouts. There is nothing wrong with 4 way stop sign intersections. Jesus Christ stop turning my Country into Europe FFS.
@@bobbrenna9507 what about them sucks?
The city motto for Oakland should officially be “Oakland California. donde la vida no vale nada, donde la cuidad nos tiene abandonados.”
East 12th is a scary place. Miss that trainyard, emptied many krylon cans there.
You seen to be part of the problem tagging the area
@@freeisalwaysme maybe 30 years ago, and not "tagging"
Stop using copper wires & etc. & hide the control unit in one of the poles. Give out solar electric power kits to stop the electricity theft. Use aluminum coated wires.
or we could actually punish criminals. in my town, all the stop light are still there.
How about just jailing the criminals
Lets go old school. Lamp powered
Let's go communist on this one. Get the city to hire some North Korean-style traffic beauties!
Oakland declared that Gazastinians are suffering a genocide! Way to prioritize your citizens.
It's sad Oakland has come to this.
Bruh just trash the whole city
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Next time don't vote for a DEI mayor. Vote for someone proven to be EFFECTIVE at what they do.
Replace with aluminum wire. Very simple solution. Airbus aircraft use aluminum wire to save cost.
The homeless aren't stealing the wiring just for money. They're using the wire to cross the street and provide power to their motor homes.
yeah.... because you can't recycle aluminum. Smart !
Aluminum is about 1/5 the current price of copper so this might help. But copper is generally preferred due to it's expansion / contraction properties. Aluminum expansion / contraction loosens electrical connections over time leading to electrical fires. There is a reason we don't use aluminum wiring in our homes.
I should also add, Airbus likely chooses aluminum over copper, a> because aluminum is lighter weight which saves airlines fuel costs down the road and b> most of the aircraft is built from aluminum so Airbus has a ready supply of it and the tooling to work with it and c> aircraft are highly maintained so the mechanics likely re-righten electrical connections as part of their normal maintenance routine (reducing the risk of fire.)
@@davidinwashington Bravo, a rare intelligent comment.
That's the greedy scrap yards doing the crime of Not reporting their wrong doing!
Looks like voting Democrat doesn’t seem to work 😂😂 Oakland is a joke and it’s not funny
I'm from Oakland and I'm vacationing in a very Republican city but they have a lot of homeless and drug addicts too. It seems it's everywhere
@@catmer9460 Yeah you keep making excuses. Democrat voters are ignorant and delusional.
@@pigjubby1 Voting doesn't seem to matter when it comes to the homeless problem.
There are cities throughout the country filled with unhoused and low income, even more so in red states. Republicans are complete psychopaths. Do the country a favor and stay away from the polls. You're genuinely completely clueless and misinformed about damn near everything. Progressives are the future.
Common denominator, scrap dealers. Cant sell copper if the scrapper is in jail for receiving stolen goods. Government has failed, on all levels. This is what happens when law enforcement and the courts don’t do anything.
Remove the recycling centers
Amputate
Tam Le should just move out of Oakland. The City doesn’t care about him and his business, so why should he stay?
Great opportunity to try a roundabout.
..not a joke.
people cant even look up from their cell phones let alone a stop sign that high up
Make it a roundabout, they are safer and it will stop those crazy sideshows.
Problem solved.
That intersection is way too small for that.
@@nopenope1186 I have seen the smaller intersections with roundabouts.
@@DiogenesOfCa it’s also a road that has semi trucks on it
@@nopenope1186so......
@@freeisalwaysme good luck getting a semi truck to make a left turn on a roundabout in a small intersection
feel sorry for that mechanic shop been there for a long time, seems like they do great work. hope they relocate to a better place.
Try modern roundabout?
is crime legal in oakland?
at this point just use roundabouts
No please no
@@xmo552 Blind people say, "How can we cross the street with just a roundabout?"
@@dfirth224
Good luck
Wow every Oakland video is basically saying this place is a hellscape. I remember before COVID that Oakland was considered a cool place to be.
Third World City.
what a city!!!
Oakland---the arm pit of the bay area. We are witnessing a devolution process. Next year, instead of street talk and chatter, you will hear just grunting and howling and hunched over people dragging their knuckles while chewing on copper wire.
Naw, Oakland isn't packed with Republicans.
If an all way stop adequately regulates traffic, it’s a better solution than a traffic light anyway.
Hey can you send them over to Boston so they can take down some of our 1 million traffic lights?
Increase the circuit to 3,000 volts and eventually people will stop messing with it one way or another.
put a traffic circle in. costs no copper and is better.
and it would disrupt the growth of the encampment