By Roger the Scanner Guy
I was reading more about the proposed 15 South Alisos homeless residences and thinking the only Homeless shelter I know of on the West Side is the Salvation Army, only a block into the West Side on the 400 Block of Chapala. Maybe the next couple of shelters ought to go on the West Side. Then maybe a couple on the Mesa, Upper State Street, Rivera, Hope Ranch. Share and share alike it’s only right. Of course, the shelters might be here but the campers are everywhere else.
I saw the replay of the interview with John Palminteri on KEYT about the Homeless Camp Fire and I saw how big that campsite was. That 50K grant for homeless camp clean up is going to get sucked up quickly cleaning that place and maybe a couple more, then how is this going to be prevented from happening again 6 months down the road? Because it is not the first time for that area, there have been fires in that general area before and maybe in that same spot. I spoke to Peter, one of the men John interviewed, before about the fires there and the fires have come very close to structures, are we going to wait until there is a tragedy? That is usually what it takes to get things done. If there are camps all over the place, might as well build one huge camp but then again maybe not. That was quick but if we were to build a huge campsite it should go on the West Side. It’s their turn.
I was thinking the other day, I do that sometimes, about how when I took people in I fed them and myself. I’d make a huge pot of white rice, it was the nastiest cheapo rice, then I’d go to Taco Bell buy a bean burrito for .50 cents take about 30 or 40 sauce packets and empty them in the rice, no one ever ate it I was the only one. They smoked all my cigarettes and drank all my coffee though. What kind of foods have you cooked while broke? Probably something better than nasty cheapo white rice.
The cooler weather is coming on, it’s time to cook some good hot chili that sticks to the bones. I’d have to make mine with lentil because for some reason me and beans do not get along. I was supposed to go to the doctor yesterday but I cannot seem to walk too far anymore without extreme pain plus I twisted my knee. I never made it and feel like carp having to call them 5 minutes before the appointment to cancel, getting older truly SUCKS. Oh well Here is your Scanner Reports.
Scanner Reports, Monday:
- 415 Family 300 Block of Elizabeth.
- State street at DLV Check the welfare of a subject down
- Gas Pipe incident Castillo at West Mission
- 2 Vehicle accident East Rice Ranch Road
- Highway 154 at 246 Vehicle Accident
- Embezzlement investigation 3900 Block of State street
- 415pc Transients 15 West Carrillo
- 400 Block of Kendall Vegetation Fire
- Las Positas at Modoc non injury accident possible drunk driver.
- Theft of food from Ralphs 100 Block of West Carrillo WMA late 20’s running away West
- 5150 Subject thinks people are out to kill him possibly armed has brandished a knife and hammer in the past in the area of Lazy Acres in the 300 Block of Meigs
- Fall victim 1400 Block of East Valley Road
- Subject passed out and possibly code 4100 Block of State street at or near U-Haul
- Suspicious subject on the property of El Encanto in the 1500 Block of Sycamore Canyon Road turned out to be an employee.
- 415pc Possible 594pc Vandalism
- 600 Block of West Guiterrez.
- 900 Block of Castillo 415 Domestic
- Wanted felon spotted in the liquor is quicker store at Montecito and Milpas street.
- Cliff Fall resulting in Death Haskells Beach rest in peace.
- 200 Block North Milpas med call.
- State street at San Roque non injury traffic accident involving a drunk driver…Do not pass go go straight to the joint 2 years that is how it should be.
- Drunk down to the front of Crown liquor is quicker 2 North Milpas.
- Check the Welfare of a female in the bushes somewhere in the downtown area the police know where.
- Suicidal subject 400 Block of North Voluntario.
Scanner Reports, Tuesday:
- Fall victim 1600 Block of Grand Ave.
- Traumatic injury Casitas Pass someone hit by a large panel all I heard hope they are OK
- Injury traffic accident Montecito at Calle Caesar Chavez
- SBPD officer on a detail at the City Attorneys office in the 700 Block of State street.
- Outdoor Chimney smoking mistaken for a structure fire in the 4000 Block of Foothill
- Med call 600 Block of West DLG.
- SBPD Supervisor heading to fire station one for training 100 Block of West Carrillo, Good Man.
- 415pc Domestic with violence near the Berryman 200 Block of West Montecito.
- Non injury traffic accident highway 101 South Bound at Olive Mill.
- Code 60 Blocking a driveway 6500 Block of El Greco
- SBPD on a group of subjects in City Lot 11
- Fire in the Riverbed Highway 101 Southbound Spring street onramp in Templeton.
- First West Mason street on a subject
- Med call 100 Block of South 5th street
- Juvenile locked in a vehicle 800 Block of Bath street.
- Lost property 100 Block of West Carrillo A backpack and sleeping bag was left by the door sounds like some cold-blooded Ash hole ripped off an honest homeless persons stuff, NOT NICE!
- Chapala at Ortega vehicle vs bicyclist.
- Subject 417pc Brandishing a knife in Starbucks 539 State street HMA last seen South on State street.
- CHP was on a high speed pursuit on 166, did not hear much about it speeds up to 105mph.
- Heard a car was stolen from Honda of Santa Barbara and pinging on 9th street, or maybe it was Honda of Goleta I don’t know where the Honda’s joint is but just got another ping i8n the 100 Block of Holly so the car is cruising around in Carpinteria.
I had to go to the store and get supplies food for me, Fish Head3, Joey. I called the cab to get home with all my stuff and was picked up by Victor Roca from Yellow Cab and he was the best cab driver. I could not get in the cab and he totally helped me. He folded up my walker, packed all the groceries in drove me home carried everything except for me to my door. Remember his name Victor Roca Yellow cab, the nicest cabbie. Dat is all out of me I am very tired Have a wonderful WEDnesday…Peter, Molly, Belinda, Midnight, Merlin, Angel Baby, Pooh Bear, Tom Cat, Clancy, Tomicina, Tiger, Lola, PoPo, Shadow, FREDDIE!, Maxwell, Fish Head One, and Two, Tiny, Andy, Poncho, Denny, Jerry, Walter, Fred, Jonathan, C.J., Brad, Billy, Carl, Stan, Kent, ELMO, Patrick, Christy, Diana, Jim, Ross, Rambo, Sherry, David Cox, Po, Marty, Cop John, Bommy, Poppy, June, Muskie, Eddie, Bambi, Rickie, Bengie, Lafayette, Ted, Pat, Mavis, Willie, Mark, Mrs. MacArthur, Magruder, Don, Edwin, Cory, Crazy Ed, Isabelle, Jerry, Debbie, Ken, LUCY! STOBIE THE HOBO, KFC, John Hancock, Micky Mantle, Ernie Banks, John Havlick, Ron Santo, Tom Petty, Little Mac, and Chris Willing we will see you on FRYday. Later, Roger
Brilliant Roger! San Rogue, LaCumbre, Riviera, Mesa, Garden District all need to take their fair share of homeless. Eastside has been dumping ground for City’s 1400 homeless. It’s time. Build a huge mega- campground on the County land where people come and go 24/7, near every free needed service : Med, Vet, Social, Fire, Legal, MTD, and voting place. HUMANS NEED TOILETS, showers, mailbox, and mini-mart. Is there land to grow food?
The Westside has several “shelter” type facilities already. It seems they are probably half-way houses for recently released inmates. These places were set up without the whining of locals and seem to function just fine. Maybe the Eastside complainers should check facts before continually assuming they are victims.
Considering the money being thrown at this problem, how’bout purchase a big Montecito property and build barracks-style accommodation (segregated by gender & whether sober or not) w/lockers, a mess hall, with bus tranportation to State Street and the other areas vagrants “work” daily? Bathrooms would need to be communal & only accessable from the separate accommodation areas to handle rape and assault, and be made with cement-floors & walls like the restrooms at the beach so they’d be easy to hose down daily and keep sanitary.