The Crime Blotter comes for women on their own lawns

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Las Vegas, Nevada. Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John, maybe the technology is not perfect yet. A San Jose man took a way mo to the airport and as he was getting off at the curb, the waimo took off with his luggage.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, hopefully he wasn't going anywhere cold. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Right now, it's time to open up the California Crime Blatter.

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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.

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Speaker 1: Oo nice see.

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Speaker 4: Time for the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 1: And today's first edition takes us to Linnwood.

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Speaker 2: A woman was mowing her lawn when somebody in a car pulled up, ran out, snatched the necklace that was on her neck, and ran away. Whoa And apparently this is a new crime trend for mar Here is Fox eleven in La oh the had Fox eleven.

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Speaker 4: A homeowner robbed in broad daylight.

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Speaker 5: A thief snatched her silver necklace right off her neck as she motor lawn. Fox Love with Gina Silver reports on this concerning trend, and you also have some important tips on how to stay safe.

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Speaker 4: Gina, that's right.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: The victim says that it happened in a matter of seconds, and deputies say, we all need to be very careful because you're not.

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Speaker 2: Allowed to wear jewelry while you're outside of your own home.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear the description of the suspect.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 1: Police say he had a green thumb, because.

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Speaker 7: Jewelry thieves are always looking for their next target.

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Speaker 8: You can't even come outside of your own house and have anything on with also, scumbbag like that snatching your necklace.

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Speaker 2: I am sorry this is how we had to meet, but I love this woman.

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Speaker 1: Oh she's my new favorite.

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Speaker 8: You can't even come outside of your own house and have anything on with als a scumbbag like that snatching your necklace.

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Speaker 9: This Linwood resident was in her front yard Monday afternoon mowing the lawn when a man ran up, ripped the necklace from her neck, and took off. Running Out of fear, she asked us not to show her face.

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Speaker 8: I was so mad. It's just like I couldn't cry because I was shocked. But I was irritated and excuse my language, pissed off at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Wow, she's not even half as vulgar as Katie Porter, and she has a reason to be.

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Speaker 8: You're out of my But I was irritated and excuse my language, pissed off at the same time because I couldn't believe you would snatch somebody's necklace like that.

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Speaker 10: Informer, that's quite I think that's been happening quite often. People are getting their goal chains or snatched from their necks.

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Speaker 9: Deputy Joelmasias with the La County Sheriff's Department says this is not an isolated case.

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Speaker 2: So this is a thing. People drive around neighborhoods see if anyone's standing on their own front lawn and if they got a necklace on or a chain on, I'm gonna rip it off and run.

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Speaker 1: To keep your jewelry from being stolen, you need desert landscaping.

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Speaker 9: Similar robberies are being reported across Los Angeles County.

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Speaker 10: They're driving the cars looking around for possible victims, immediately get out of the car, rip out the neck and they're gone. And they do this multiple times during the couple hour span.

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Speaker 2: I don't want and do we ever catch these people?

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Speaker 1: It's La County, of course not.

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Speaker 8: I don't want him to get away. I want him caught, and I want my necklace back.

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Speaker 1: I just keep liking her more and more the more we hear from her.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're not done with her.

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Speaker 8: I don't want him to get away. I want him caught, and I want my necklace back.

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Speaker 11: The necklace had been in her family for over fifteen years. She says it's worth about twenty four hundred dollars, but for her, the sentimental value is priceless. She also says her neighbour's surveillance camera captured this image of the thief.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his faith.

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Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, isn't she familiar with Governor Newsom. We don't need that. What we need is quote unquote accountability.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his faith.

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Speaker 2: And with that, our little Lindwood lady here is going on the wall, punch in face.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his faith, dead in.

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Speaker 1: His Welcome to the wall, sweetheart, I really.

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Speaker 8: Want to just punch him dead in his face. So do I, because we all do, because he should not have done that to me. You know, he's low down and he's dirty.

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Speaker 10: My advice is, are you going to be carrying your goal chains on you and maybe tuck it in a little bit, don't show it as much?

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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, you can't wear jewelry on your own property.

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Speaker 2: She was on her own front lawn in broad daylight, and the advice from the sheriff says, well, you probably just shouldn't wear your necklace.

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Speaker 1: We need a new sheriff so bad in this county.

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Speaker 2: If you feel that it is not fair that you don't feel safe to wear your necklace out on your own property, well, Robert Luna has a message for you.

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Speaker 1: I need you to not feel that way. I saw a portrait of all five women who make up the La County Board of Supervish, and one of them brought their dog for the picture, and I thought to myself, hmm, is that Luna? Because I could have sworn he lives in their purse.

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Speaker 12: Because at the end of the day, we want to hold people accountable.

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Speaker 2: Sure do.

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Speaker 10: My advice is, are you going to be carrying your goal chains on you and maybe tuck it in a little bit, don't show it as much?

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Speaker 1: Be all ware your surroundings, be careful with cars that are.

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Speaker 2: Going Okay, another term that is so overused, especially by law enforcement in these kinds of stories. Stop telling us to be aware of our surroundings. You're paid to clean up our surroundings, and if you can't do that, start calling out the people who won't let you.

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Speaker 1: Well, if she was at home, it's not like she was in a dark alley at three in the morning. What's mister t supposed to do? Stay in the backyard, bill ware.

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Speaker 10: Your surroundings.

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Speaker 1: Be careful with cars that are going by.

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Speaker 2: So automatically assume every car that's driving in your neighborhood is somebody that wants to rob you.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, this woman did nothing wrong. She did everything that a homeowner should be able to do. She was mowing the lawn wearing her jewelry. This guy that stole her jewelry, he's the one that needs to be corrected. And by corrected, I mean punched in the face.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his face.

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Speaker 10: I love her very at a slow speed with tiny windows, because you might be the next target.

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Speaker 2: No, like, oh, we're going to get this guy. No, just be careful because you'll be next. Seriously, what do we even have law enforcement for if they can't do a damn thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question.

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Speaker 7: If you know who stole this lady's necklace, and.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps she looks like someone's car just got broken into, the bipping is back.

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Speaker 8: I've been bipped several times.

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Speaker 7: You know who stole this lady's necklace, and perhaps you recognize the person in that surveillance video, contact the La County Sheriff's Department, Christine Marla. I'll send it back to you. Guys in the studio.

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Speaker 13: This is a really shocking store that this person would approach her life, that you could totally feel her passion as well.

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Speaker 14: So he just came up and just grabbed it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, she was mowing the lawn and she says, all of a sudden, this kid just came up and just grabbed it. In fact, left a scratch on her neck.

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Speaker 2: And that's a salt right there.

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Speaker 1: Boy, he's lucky she didn't clock him.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his faith.

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Speaker 2: I believe in restorative justice, and if this guy does get caught, that should be the restorative justice.

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Speaker 1: I bet you she packs a mean punch too, and she was in shock.

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Speaker 11: She really didn't know what to do.

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Speaker 7: They were gone, So, as the detective explained, they kind of drive around in cars. It's usually two to three guys. One jumps out, they've already found their victim. He goes and snatches the necklace. Then they're back in the car and they're gone before anyone even realizes.

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Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Just the latest insane crime that is trending in Los Angeles County where jackasses are driving around neighborhoods looking for people standing on their own property and if they happen to be dumb enough to be wearing their own jewelry on their own property, they're gonna get robbed.

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Speaker 1: And Randy, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 2: If the cash is dumby.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. I said, Hell, no, very boring.

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Speaker 12: Let me get up one out of here.

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Speaker 1: It's the California Crime Bloader and this edition takes us to the city of Dumpy.

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Speaker 2: In the city of Oakland, a touring band of musicians found out the hard way why you should always stay in Fremont, uh oh, because their U haul full of their instruments got robbed in the hotel parking lot. You know what these band members want to do.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his face.

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Speaker 1: I know where they'd stick the flute for mar Here is KTVU Fox two in the Bay all with all their.

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Speaker 15: Gears stolen from a parking lot in Oakland. Good evening, everyone on Mike maybeck New at six KTVU crime reporter Henry Lee live tonight in the city of Oakland. And Henry, that is a lot of gear and that does mean a lot of money, even with the insurance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Mike. A lot of instruments taking saxophones, guitars, drum sets, you name it. All gone within just a matter of minutes. This band is silenced for now, trying to.

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Speaker 2: Do They're no longer a band, They're an a cappella group. You're gonna have to change that up real quick.

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Speaker 1: Might have to learn new songs.

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Speaker 3: This band is silenced for now, trying to deal with the loss they say is in the six figures.

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Speaker 16: As far as what was in the U haul, it was everything you know for a touring party.

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Speaker 3: Andras Metzen is devastated after thieves stole his band's rental truck with all their instruments and gear outside a hotel along Oakland's and Barcadero early Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 2: I know it's a lot of gear, but if you have anything that's of any value and you're parking in a hotel, you usually keep that stuff in the room with you. I mean, maybe it's too much stuff, but like when I go wine tasting, I don't leave the wine in the car overnight.

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Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, if this woman's getting robbed in a front yard, why do you think the Hampton ends any safer.

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Speaker 8: I really want to just punch him dead in his face, poor lady.

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Speaker 16: It was our musical instruments, our stage design. Are you know, lighting gear, audio gear that we've been renting.

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Speaker 3: That means it's neosoul jazz band Moonchild from Los Angeles had to cancel and reschedule gigs in Berkeley, Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: What kind of band is this?

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Speaker 3: Does neo soul jazz?

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Speaker 2: Neo soul jazz?

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Speaker 1: I have never heard of that kind of genre before.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they play that on the wave.

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Speaker 3: Neo soul jazz band Moonchild from Los Angeles had to cancel and reschedule gigs in Berkeley, Sacramento, LA, and San Diego.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so they weren't even playing in Oakland. They just stopped over in Oakland.

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Speaker 1: Must have been there on points.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember this is a few years ago. Do you remember the story where somebody was moving from San Diego to northern California and they were driving a U haul full of everything that mattered to them, and they decided to spend a night in Oakland and John, what happened to that U haul when they woke up?

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Speaker 1: It got stolen and they found it at a homeless encampment a couple days later.

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Speaker 2: You are correct, sir.

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Speaker 16: To go through something like this and losing everything, I mean, it's an unimaginable.

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Speaker 3: It happened in the parking lot outside the Executive Inn in Swedes and Best Western sister properties along Oakland's waterfront. Sir Brealan's video shows the band's twenty.

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Speaker 2: Foot Oakland Best Western. I get to imagine that's a vibe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that has to be a real special experience.

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Speaker 3: Sir Brealan's video shows the band's twenty foot U haul parked in the stall and I.

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Speaker 2: Guess they weren't getting paid that well, because that seems like a pretty cheap hotel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not playing the Oracle Stadium, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Oakland Best Western raids. Let's just see how how much this one's gonna cost you. About one hundred dollars a night.

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Speaker 1: For the Bay Area. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Well, the problem is if you bring anything with you it's getting stolen.

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Speaker 1: Do they charge for parking?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they do, seventeen dollars a night to get your stuff robbed.

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Speaker 3: Surveillance video shows the band's twenty foot U haul parked in the stall. A Sedanan pulls up and backs up alongside the truck. Someone gets out of the car on the passenger side. It's not long before the U haul driver's door opens and the lights turn on, and then the car leaves, followed by the U haul.

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Speaker 2: Matt's so they just straight up stole the U haul again.

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Speaker 1: They don't full a round up there?

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Speaker 2: All right? Two queen beds with a city view. I could get it tonight for one hundred and sixty four dollars.

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Speaker 1: There's a reason.

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Speaker 3: Mattson quickly realized something was wrong.

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Speaker 16: Of my air tags were in radically different locations in Oakland. All of our airt tags were found in Bush's disposed of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they know what to do with those. It's poor guys.

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Speaker 3: The band's tour in Oakland before, and we're aware of the risks.

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Speaker 1: It's like staying in a war zone.

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Speaker 3: The band's toured in Oakland before, and we're aware of the risks, but they weren't prepared to deal with an entire U haul stolen with all their gear.

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Speaker 2: This is the second story we've had in just a couple of years where an entire U haul with all of its contents gets stolen in Oakland.

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Speaker 1: Well, thankfully the stories are funny.

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Speaker 14: It's a lot of crime now.

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Speaker 3: Except for COVID, they've never had to cancel a show ever until now.

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Speaker 1: These poor guys the day the music stopped.

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Speaker 16: Some of these instruments that we lost, you know, we've had you know, it's a symbiotic relationship. You know, you can't it's not something you can replace.

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Speaker 3: Oaklann police are investigating the theft, which happened in an area that's popular with thieves.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you want to buy it back, you can probably get it at a real bargain over at the tenderloin All.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's look at yelp Best Western Oakland, see what kind of reviews we're dealing with here.

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Speaker 3: Oaklann police are investigating the theft, which happened in an area that's popular with thieves.

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Speaker 16: Well, hopefully our story can serve as just a warning sign to other bands who tour in the area, just to you know, be on red alert. I mean, no musician or band should ever have to go through anything like this.

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Speaker 2: Bring your gear inside, rents an entire room just for the gear.

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Speaker 1: I bet you the rooms get robbed too. We don't act like there's some kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: Juary the band I set up a GoFundMe to help cover their losses. You can find the link on our website katvu dot com. Live in Oakland, Henry Lee, KTVU Fox Tony.

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Speaker 2: There you go, the band in Oakland that had to break up because all their gear got stolen in a U haul that was parked in a Best Western parking lot. And Randy, it's time to reopen the California Crime bloddersed to catch it, his dummy.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried, I said, hell no, or let me get up on out of here. It's the California Crime Bloater and Randy. This edition takes us to Glendale.

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Speaker 2: There was a big bust in a scam involving Nordstrums where guys would buy things and then return counterfeit things for more. Here's ABC seven then Eyewitness News.

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Speaker 1: New at four o'clock at Allege retail, theft scheme involving luxury items busted by Glendale police.

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Speaker 17: Investigators say the criminals bought things like high end bags and then returned counterfeit items to the store for a refund, I would, reporter Niko.

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Speaker 2: Kazo So they bought an expensive handbag at Nordstrum and that bought it obviously counterfeit one on Amazon, returned the Amazon one and split the profit.

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Speaker 17: Oh my, I would reporter Niku Kazori is live in Glendale with those details, Nico.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, David Ajevanna.

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Speaker 18: Glendale police arrested two suspects accused of scamming this Nordstrum out of three hundred thousand dollars, and police say this has been going on since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 18: This investigation began in February twenty twenty six, when a norse from employee at the Americana spotted a suspicious return involving a counterfeit item. The store identified a pattern of questionable returns, including high end items like designer handbags.

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Speaker 2: And close You wouldn't it be the first red flag that somebody is returning things every single day.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if Nordstrom pays their people enough to pay attention to things like this and clothing.

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Speaker 18: Investigators then linked the activity to two Glendale residents, rpnis Archisian and arguing Garapitien, Well.

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Speaker 8: You can't even come outside of your own house and have anything on with also, scumbag like that snatching your necklace.

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Speaker 1: That's our public service announcement for the day. Eight i'dred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well. Los Angeles will soon be hosting the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and the police chief is now publicly stating that we don't have enough police officers for either event.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a disaster. For more here is KTLA.

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Speaker 6: LAPD Chief Jim McDonald is making some alarming comments about the LA Olympics. The chief says that his department does not currently have the proper manpower or funding in preparation for the summer games.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact, when Eric Garcetti sold the idea of the Olympics in Los Angeles, he promised the IOC that by twenty twenty four, because originally it was twenty twenty four, then they moved it to twenty twenty eight, that LAPD would be at twelve thousand officers.

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Speaker 1: How's that I receive things on both ends.

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Speaker 2: We're now down to the lowest number we've had in thirty years, where we're at about eighty five hundred.

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Speaker 6: Katla's Samantha Cortesi is joining us live from our new center with more. Samantha, good Warning.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Good morning Megan.

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Speaker 19: During a city council budget hearing yesterday, Chief Jim McDonald said the LAPD is facing a massive funding problem for the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. He warns that without specific city funding, the department will be stretched past its limits to protect both visitors and locals in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Is there anybody anybody that's real that thinks it's a good idea for this disaster of a city to be hosting these big world events.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be such a trade wreck. I don't even think our local officials are aware of how much ridicule we're going to have to endure.

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Speaker 2: It's going to make Rio look like a success.

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Speaker 20: The one billion dollar budget is for all agencies involved in the Olympics, not just the LAPD and will be restricted primarily.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all the events that are gonna happen in Englewood at so FI, those will probably be.

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Speaker 1: Safe, different city and be In fact.

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Speaker 2: The only saving grace of the La Olympics is that a lot of the events aren't happening in the city of La.

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Speaker 12: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you have what the Rose Bowl that's in Pasadena, you have SOFI that's in Inglewood. Are they doing anything in Orange County at Angels Stadium?

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Speaker 2: They're doing something I think at in Huntington Beach, I think they're doing some kind of event. They're also doing stuff in Long Beach there's a good portion of the Olympic events that are not happening in the city of la for good reason.

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Speaker 20: And will be restricted primarily to police officer overtime. LA twenty eight confirmed that they have I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, they are going to put some stuff at the convention Center, which is a terrible idea because if you've never been to the convention Center, it's right downtown on the corner of murder and rape and it's a dump.

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Speaker 20: LA twenty eight confirmed that they have zero police or public safety budget, and while they do have a security budget, it doesn't cover law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: And it covers those guys in the yellow shirts with the walkie talkies.

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Speaker 1: The ambassadors are back.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, you know, like event security people, the people you see it like a concert. There's going to be a lot of those guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the glorified dosins.

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Speaker 19: The chief went on to say to those lawmakers, the current financial plan relies on a pool budget shared by police, that's fire, federal agents. He says that money is largely restricted to overtime reimbursement, which has a cap, for example this year, of one million dollars already this fiscal year, with two months left to go, they've already surpassed that overtime, and it's obviously not an Olympic or big event year. LAPD projects it will need to deploy sixty seven hundred officers across eight different venues.

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Speaker 2: They have wait, that's the majority of the force.

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Speaker 1: It really seems like they haven't thought this through, have they.

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Speaker 2: This is a city of four million people and they're going to put three fourths of the police for three weeks around just Olympic venues. Hey, everybody's house is going to get robbed over and over and over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Well, especially of your neighborhood. Yep.

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Speaker 2: LAPD projects, all right, new goals, new life goals. By twenty twenty eight, I would like to no longer be a resident of the City of Los Angeles. Let's make it happen. People sponsor our advertisers.

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Speaker 19: LAPD projects it will need to deploy sixty seven hundred officers across eight different venues. They have been provided money for more vehicles, but not the eight hundred they need or the equipment inside, according to LPD. Council members asked a few questions, like why the department needs millions of dollars for vehicles, Why can't they use school buses to get large amounts of officers to and from venues?

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Speaker 1: Boy, we're really robing Peter to pay Paul, aren't we.

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Speaker 19: Why can't they use school buses to get large amounts of officers to and from venues, or why can't they use unmarked vehicles rather than pursuit ready patrol cars. They also asked the question about roles of federal security versus local What.

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Speaker 21: Is laped's role inside of the perimeters of the venues. My understanding is that it's not same goes for inside the athlete's village. And I just the fact that we haven't nailed this down, and I feel like we're having two different conversations and it's confusing and starting to get frustrating.

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Speaker 19: The LAPED responded, saying it's inaccurate to say the federal government will secure the entirety of Olympic venues. FED say their roles include security for international delegations and security assets, but the local police will need to respond to radio calls and enforce state law.

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Speaker 14: LA.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: I love that they're all trying to get on the record saying that this is going to be a nightmare, but none of them are trying to do anything about it. They just want to cya.

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Speaker 19: LA twenty eight pushed back in a statement to the California Post that organization which controls the Olympic funding, says federal authorities will take on a larger role in security because the games are designated in national security special event.

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Speaker 4: Recently, La Mayor caarens.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but that's the venue. So if you get past security, you have a ticket to one of the events, you'll probably be safe. What about everyone who's walking around the city.

00:27:44
Speaker 1: Well, how about if you own a jewelry shop somewhere in Los Angeles and you know all the cops are going to be doing crowd control over at the Olympics, and there's no one there to save you.

00:27:56
Speaker 19: Recently, LA Mayor Karen Bass pushed for more money for LAP the officers.

00:28:01
Speaker 4: In a letter to city council.

00:28:02
Speaker 19: She said LA cannot welcome the world for the Fiefal World Cup or the Olympic.

00:28:06
Speaker 2: Wait a second, this was Karen Vass's statement that she's reading, Yeah, don't say the d she never does.

00:28:13
Speaker 4: LA cannot welcome the world.

00:28:14
Speaker 2: Let me can I fix this for her? Yes, let's just fix that.

00:28:19
Speaker 19: Welcome the world for the fifal World Cup.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: Let me get this one too, just to just to make sure that we're being accurate. If you're going to quote someone, you have to make sure that you quote them as accurately as possible.

00:28:30
Speaker 19: LA cannot welcome the world for the fifal World Cup.

00:28:33
Speaker 1: There you go, that's how she says it.

00:28:38
Speaker 19: Or the Olympic Games without a significant surgeon personnel.

00:28:42
Speaker 2: Wait, the World Cup is in two months.

00:28:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. With the Olympics at least that's a couple of years away the World Cup. You hear that, Randy, they're knocking on.

00:28:55
Speaker 19: The door without a significant surgeon personnel. She told the city to live to hiring freeze and bring on more officers. Yesterday's budget meeting, I.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: Like how the mayor likes to actually like she's not in charge of anything, and the city council like to act that they're not in charge of anything.

00:29:13
Speaker 1: They all act like they're writers of letters to the editor to the newspaper.

00:29:18
Speaker 19: Yesterday's budget meeting was more than six hours long. I can't say it instilled much confidence in the city's preparedness, and with two years to go, LAPD Chief McDonald says, the department needs to say.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, this isn't going anywhere good anytime soon. And the closer we get to these big world events, the more it looks like we are not prepared at all.

00:29:41
Speaker 1: Well, not only are we not prepared, but it's obvious to anyone paying attention. Yet they're all going to claim that they were caught flat footed.

00:29:50
Speaker 2: That's the latest on the shortage of police for all the big events coming to the city of Los Angeles.

00:29:58
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two to two is the telephone number one, eight hundred two to two five two two two. Coming up after the news at two, we're going to talk to one of the candidates who's running to replace Nancy Pelosi. I know I said it was going to happen after the news at one, but I didn't read the rundown correctly.

00:30:18
Speaker 4: Karen, why are you doing this?

00:30:22
Speaker 6: All?

00:30:22
Speaker 1: Right? So, we know that the cost of gasoline is shooting through the roof, and because of that, people are trying to find ways to avoid driving their cars, and things are getting so bad for some people that they're even willing to consider riding the murder trains around town.

00:30:42
Speaker 2: Gas has gotten so expensive that people are starting to take the bus. Uh oh for more, here is CBSLA.

00:30:55
Speaker 22: And as the war drags on, gas prices in California and now surging to new levels we haven't seen years.

00:31:02
Speaker 2: Yes, La County, when that thing's supposed to be done in like a week, Yeah, let's speed this thing up.

00:31:08
Speaker 13: Yes, La County drivers are paying some of the most expensive prices in the state and the country. It's six dollars and ten cents on average for a gallon.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: I don't know what gas station you're talking about, the one next to my house, it's like six point fifty for the cheapest. I'm here in Nevada right now, and I drilled by a couple of gas stations this morning, and I thought to myself, what's everyone complaining about?

00:31:32
Speaker 13: Gas is cheap for a gallon of regular gas, and that's fifteen cents higher than a week ago. Some drivers are shifting gears and opting for a cheaper way.

00:31:43
Speaker 2: To Hey, it's the first time anyone appropriately used that phrase.

00:31:48
Speaker 1: Okay, now, wait a minute, are you really saving money if you're getting rid of your car for public transit? Because okay, yeah, you don't have to buy gas anymore, and you don't put it many miles on your tire, so you don't have to replace those as often. But let's just look at the expenditures that you have to make to ride public transit. You probably need a gun. That's going to cost you, and you need to get the permit if you want to do it legally. Maybe you want some mace or some bear spray. If you don't want an actual firearm to carry with you, that's expensive. Sometimes people on those buses get attacked with a knife, so maybe you want to invest in a pocket knife, so that way you have a knife to bring to the knife fight if that breaks out. Some people they don't want to go on offense. They just want to make sure that if they do get shot, they don't bleed out. So then you can invest in a bulletproof vest. Those are expensive, and then you might need life alert too. I know in the ad they say you need it if you've fallen and you can't get up, But people are so apathetic right now in this town. If you do get stabbed or shot, no one may call the police, So you might need life alert too. Am I forgetting anything, Mandy.

00:33:19
Speaker 13: Some drivers are shifting gears, and often for a cheaper way to get around.

00:33:24
Speaker 22: Cbsla's Brittany Rman is live in downtown La with how commuters are cutting their spending.

00:33:30
Speaker 23: Brittany Rudebert and Pat it's all about public transit. I heard from some commuters at Union Station today who tell me they're done driving because it's just too expensive. So now those drivers are changing their habits because the commute it can add.

00:33:44
Speaker 2: Up fast, although it's definitely not a significant amount of people doing that because the freeways is jammed as it always ever was.

00:33:55
Speaker 8: Don't even want to think about the hocust of filling.

00:33:57
Speaker 4: Up my tank.

00:33:57
Speaker 12: Really we're doing this.

00:34:00
Speaker 24: It just keeps going up.

00:34:01
Speaker 23: Some commuters across southern California are leaving their cars in park, trading the driver's seat for public transit. Connor Arden commutes from Santa Clarita to downtown La.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: Oh that is a hell of a drive every day.

00:34:13
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you imagine what kind of mood he must show up and when he gets home from work?

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Oh boy, every single time you get to that part at the five fourteen where it slows down, and then it slows down at the five four h five, and then it slows down at the five one seventy, and then it slows down at the five one ten, and then you got to get on the one ten, and then you're at that junction of five one oh one one ten where time stands still. I know that commute.

00:34:42
Speaker 14: Saving time and cutting back on gas.

00:34:44
Speaker 24: I mean, gas priceure pretty crazy right now. Which anyway to try to save a little bit of money if I can.

00:34:50
Speaker 12: It's convenient, it's relaxing.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: Au Reward is keeping I don't know about the relaxing part, but sure.

00:34:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, just wait until you end up on YouTube bell au.

00:35:00
Speaker 23: Reward is keeping more money in his pocket riding the bus in train from the Inland Empire, I.

00:35:05
Speaker 12: Can spend the same on a gallon gas.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: So he's talking about metrolink. That's a little different.

00:35:11
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's not exactly the hand to hand combat that you're gonna get on the buses.

00:35:16
Speaker 2: That's a train where we have to pay for a train ticket. Typically the bums are not on metro Link.

00:35:23
Speaker 12: And get around all day bus pass on Metrolink.

00:35:26
Speaker 23: California's average gas price is now topped six dollars a gallon, the highest in the country.

00:35:32
Speaker 4: Some people choosing.

00:35:33
Speaker 1: Not higher than Honolulu, which is crazy because they have to put it all on a ship before they can use it.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so do we.

00:35:42
Speaker 8: That's true some people choosing not to drive that all maybe stay home.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: Triple A spokesperson, Yeah, can we just get back to the remote working thing we did during COVID because gas got pretty cheap?

00:35:56
Speaker 8: Then?

00:35:57
Speaker 1: Okay? Can we do that without involving Barbara for being on TV every day?

00:36:02
Speaker 8: Next Side?

00:36:04
Speaker 23: Triple A spokesperson Candice Red says, the prices you see at the pump are tied to global crew, to oil markets, recent tensions involving Iran and disruptions to shipping through the strait.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: I like that we call it recent tensions.

00:36:19
Speaker 1: How many iatolas have they gone through this year?

00:36:22
Speaker 2: Definitely one, We're iffy about the second one.

00:36:26
Speaker 1: They've gone through more iotolas than I think they went through. Darren's on Bewitched.

00:36:30
Speaker 23: Involving Iran and disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hermos are driving up costs, briefly pushing oil prices past one hundred and twenty five dollars a barrel. Experts say for now it may come down to changing habits.

00:36:44
Speaker 8: Look into discounts.

00:36:46
Speaker 23: There are some retailers like grocery stores that offer fuel discount programs, and even some credit cards offer gas discounts too. But for some commuters, public transit or how about the people that will drive for twenty miles to save one cent on the gasoline price.

00:37:03
Speaker 1: I buy mine from the Indian casino. They don't have to pay the white man's taxes two.

00:37:08
Speaker 14: But for some commuters, public transit is the best option.

00:37:11
Speaker 12: I went to go visit my mom and she's in Ranch cucka Manga, and gas is way too expensive to drive all the way out there.

00:37:17
Speaker 14: The cost of driving push it.

00:37:19
Speaker 2: That's when you just say sorry, can't make the visit right now. Easy to get out of that one.

00:37:26
Speaker 14: The cost of driving pushing some to change lanes.

00:37:30
Speaker 4: I actually might keep using it.

00:37:31
Speaker 2: Okay, too many car puns.

00:37:36
Speaker 4: I actually might keep.

00:37:37
Speaker 24: Using it, especially as a commuter, you know from Santa Clarita. It's just it just doesn't make sense long term.

00:37:42
Speaker 1: That poor guy.

00:37:43
Speaker 23: And when you're at the pump, you can actually use cash instead of credit cards to avoid some of those fees.

00:37:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you're not getting any points. No who uses cash for anything. You're leaving money on the table.

00:37:56
Speaker 1: The whole purpose of living is to accumulate as many points as potossible.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: I think we might have a problem