SOLdesign
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| I am not paying for MJ's memorial! The news said that we are going to have to pay for 700 cops to control traffic Tuesday for that pedophile's memorial at Staples.
The city is broke and they want us to pay for OT for cops for this? The Jackson family can pay if they want this but not me dammit! | |
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TearAbite
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SOLdesign
Did I drink a shot of Irrational Whore?
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Woodland Hills, CA | Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! Yes, as are most of the little suburbs. | |
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81399672
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| said by TearAbite  :Woodland Hills is part of LA City ? Staples is not in woodland hills
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by 81399672 :said by TearAbite :Woodland Hills is part of LA City ? Staples is not in woodland hills *WHOOSH*
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CurtesyFlush
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| said by TearAbite :Woodland Hills is part of LA City ? Didn't you say you grew up in So Cal?
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by CurtesyFlush :Didn't you say you grew up in So Cal? San Gabriel Valley.. But I rarely ventured west of Pasadena, so I'm not familiar with all that big-city stuff.. | |
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TearAbite
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Well then.. it looks like you may not have a choice.. might as well go and watch the show since you're paying for it. | |
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81399672
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Los Angeles, CA | He was found not guilty so stop callig him pedophile. Second citys job to provide public security. So deal with it
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SOLdesign
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! He paid off several accusers and used his "mob" to intimidate and bully the families. I think he was a pedophile and I will call him one. Staples Center or Nokia is where they are going to have the memorial. I do not believe my tax money should go to pay the OT for the police to control the event. I pay LA City taxes.
BTW, Staples is charging $25 bucks to enter. That money should go to pay the police, not mine.
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! I was with you right up to the last sentence, mers2 . Unfortunately, the silliness surrounding this nutcase is not confined to California. We're just hosting one of the premier silly events. | |
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1 edit | I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by mers2 :The attention given MJ passed absurd long ago. We've had over a week of nonstop reporting on his death and it still leads every news cast.... I'm so relieved that Alaska's governor announced she is resigning, if for no other reason, it gives the media something else to focus on than MJ... MJ... MJ... MJ...
edit: "news" media is so bad, for awhile there, I thought about sending an anonymous video of ylen watering his lawn to Fox news  | |
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1 edit | Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by shortckt :said by mers2 :The attention given MJ passed absurd long ago. We've had over a week of nonstop reporting on his death and it still leads every news cast.... I'm so relieved that Alaska's governor announced she is resigning, if for no other reason, it gives the media something else to focus on than MJ... MJ... MJ... MJ... edit: "news" media is so bad, for awhile there, I thought about sending an anonymous video of ylen watering his lawn to Fox news Even with Gov. Palin resigning, the news still lead off with MJ. Not sure what would knock him off the lead. Just plain pathetic. As are the folks wallowing in "grief".
Edited to add: I'll chip in to send the video to Fox. 
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2 edits | »www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0···dex.html
" People who do not have a ticket should stay away and watch the event on television, a Los Angeles police official said.
The Los Angeles city government will provide security for the event, despite a budget crisis, said Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry, who is acting mayor while Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is out of the country."
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by WiFiguru :» www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0···dex.html" People who do not have a ticket should stay away and watch the event on television, a Los Angeles police official said. The Los Angeles city government will provide security for the event, despite a budget crisis, said Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry, who is acting mayor while Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is out of the country." Blahahha Of NOTE: Jan Perry who is Mayor protem while V is out of the country serves the area where Staples is located I believe.
Leave it to Mayor V to be out of town all this time. He seems to be away when ever there is something big going on in LA
I am trying to remember what happened when he was in Europe a couple of years ago for reference.
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SOLdesign
Did I drink a shot of Irrational Whore?
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Woodland Hills, CA | Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! the last time he left town, they discovered his mistress. brfore that we were having illegal alien protests and he left. he is a total douche. I issue him the official writ of douchebaggery. | |
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| said by SOLdesign :I am not paying for MJ's memorial! Here, let me fix this for yousaid by SOLdesign :I am going to pay for MJ's memorial whether I like it or not | |
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SOLdesign
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Woodland Hills, CA | Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! let me fix that for you...
"I am not going to re-elect any of the assholes who are not billing the Jackson's for this..." | |
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Ocean Gate, NJ | Maybe we can tell the mourners that show up to "beat it". | |
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Hacienda Heights, CA | is it at staples? or the shrine? i heard shrine. | |
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! Staples, 10A Tuesday. There's an online lottery for ~8000 pairs of free tickets, though I think parking will be expensive.
I believe the Nokia theater may have a broadcast of the memorial as well, but I don't know the details.
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Long Beach, CA | I. AM. SO. SICK. OF. MICHAEL. JACKSON.
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by HappyBunny :I. AM. SO. SICK. OF. MICHAEL. JACKSON. Pleeeease someone make it stop! Who's Michael Jackson? | |
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| quote:
The city has also set up a Web site urging fans to make tax-deductible donations through credit cards, PayPal or check to help defray costs.
Fans have thus far donated $17,000, but contributions have been hampered by technical problems, Szabo said in a statement.
The site received so many hits that the servers crashed Tuesday night and several times Wednesday, Szabo said. The city's information technology department is working to rectify the problems.
»news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_···ial_cost
If the city can their web site up and running, maybe you won't have to pay the full amount.
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In a letter to the emergency management department, Greuel criticized the nearly $49,000 expense for police officers' lunches, which were ordered from a restaurant located 80 miles from Los Angeles.
But they were good sandwiches!
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! i'm still calling bullshit on the 1.4m. how many cops were there, and how many hours did they work? someone said something like 3000.... that's way way more than they would need, and that's $500 each for the whole time.
i'd say they'd never need more than 500 for the area they blocked off. that's $2800 each for at most a half day's work.
we'll see. the mayors office keeps trumpeting that they thought it was going to be 4m... as if we're supposed to be grateful that it only cost 1.4m. that's over 20 teacher's salaries, for a whole year...
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Hacienda Heights, CA | Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! ok, then that means the city loses 1.4m on every laker game, cause that's about as many people who showed for MJs eulogy.
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SOLdesign
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! tonight, they jacked the estimate up to $4mill. nice.
and BTW, I have absolutely no problem with the lunches. I saw th estory on the news tonight and they got two sandwiches, two bags of chips fruit desert and two sodas. They had the lowest bid. I call it a win even though I had to pay for it. | |
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| said by jig :ok, then that means the city loses 1.4m on every laker game, cause that's about as many people who showed for MJs eulogy. Do city need to have 3k officers out? My guess is no. Do they need special traffic control etc? Very unlikely unless it's right before the championship. | |
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join:2005-09-08 | I tried to get to the city website for donation, but everytime i tired, it was down. | |
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by 58999258 :I tried to get to the city website for donation, but everytime i tired, it was down. It was probably tired too.
And all this time I thought ylen did things just to be a troll or scofflaw but instead he is just trying to donate. | |
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shortckt
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| The latest story seems to be the large LAPD response was in proportion to the estimated number of visitors. Actual numbers ended up being only a fraction of that estimate. The company which put the whole thing together provided the overly optimistic estimate. No sanity checking was done. Amazingly, the city has no record of anyone obtaining a permit for any portion of the MJ event!
The original cost was revised downward by: accounting for payroll savings by sending some officers home early when it became apparent the estimated crowds were not going to materialize; accounting for the venue operator (AEG ?) agreeing to pay a small part of the cost; and (probably) some 'creative accounting.'
Some city leaders, including newly elected LA City Attorney Trutanich, are promising to investigate score brownie points with the public and extract due payment from Jackson family, the venue operator or whoever. | |
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HappyBunny
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Long Beach, CA | Oh no, dont get rid of our personal troll! We love him, kind of like an evil little mascot. | |
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shortckt
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1 edit | I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by HappyBunny :Oh no, dont get rid of our personal troll! We love him, kind of like an evil little mascot. Maybe they should'a banished him to the Wx forum 
edit: After reading my IM I now understand why he's gone. And the Wx forum would not have been the right place to send him. | |
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| Re: I am not paying for MJ's memorial! said by shortckt : After reading my IM I now understand why he's gone. And the Wx forum would not have been the right place to send him. No one deserves THAT. No one. | |
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