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Supposedly something about saved up money cops use for parades, etc.
Also, that's not all. Didn't MJ ask for loans for all the Beatles songs? I may be wrong on this, but that's what I've heard.
well, hopefully everyone who came from out of the country and out of the city are spending money on transportation and lodging and buying a lot of stuff and offsetting the costs. that's usually the way its supposed to work.
His estate is worth near a billion $ (especially with all the recent itunes DL's)
Send the bill to them.
Hmmm. They block off streets for this, but won't help us cork an intersection. Instead ticket, arrest, and even tackle to the ground. Too bad we can't sing and dance.
I just wanted to point out that calling someone an idiot for spelling pedophile incorrectly isn't necessary. You claim "all you assholes are haters." yet you like to call people you've never even met, idiots? You've got it twisted.
imachynna responding to a comment by palucha66
07.7.09 - 1:58 pm
That's pretty extreme. I don't think threatening someone is good idea. All the flaming that happens in this forum is now the norm but threatening someone is something else.
if im a troll and an idiot, then youre never going to use my tools again on a ride. well, technically you never used them in the first place because you confused an allen key for a crescent wrench.
it is the job of these trolls to moderate you guys from getting too serious. sometimes you take that riser bar off your conversion so far up your ass, people start mkaing death threats. we don't lead by example, we're here so you can hate us so you dont have to hate each other.
doesnt mean you can become one of us. that takes months/years/ or at least a ban.
_iJunes responding to a comment by palucha66
07.7.09 - 3:26 pm
ok ok you make a point with that.
but wtf threats. i can report him and take his threat to trial if iI wanted to.
and people dont read the posts so they jump to conclusions,
and also i dont ride with you people.
So, on to Jackson, Michael, not Daniel from that idiotic show with the right-side up toilet that flushes sideways.
I was watching the thing on TV earlier and noticed that his kids don't look a damned thing like him.
Not trying to be racist, but they looked about as white as a couple of farm kids from Nebraska.
Same goes for the lack of facial resemblance.
Alright, alright, lets get off his ass. I think it's been enough for one day. C'mon guys. I was just poking, the rest of you are stabbing.
Palucha. I know we've never officially met, but I know you get that Coldcut and I like to mess with you. I'm glad you don't take it seriously. The reason why everyone is messing with you here is because you are new. Not only are you new, but you did some things that new people aren't generally supposed to do, like joke around with others if it's unwarranted and others don't get it. Generally, calling someone an idiot like that isn't FUNNY. If you wanted to be funny, and if you wanted people to joke around with you, maybe you should have said something that could be taken as a joke.
Midnightridazz.com is a cool place if you make it. Lots of people complain because of the "trolling", the "drama", etc, etc, but the key is to not take it seriously or pay much attention to it. Unfortunately, people have a tainted view of you already, and since I know you're REAL- yes, I saw you in real life- maybe you'd like to make mends and try to befriend some people. Everyone around here is really cool. Keep it cool, dude.
i actuall wasnt joking some doctors have been saying that he might look that way cause of all the plastic surgery. im not sure yet. imma try to find the article again
Of course! He was married to Elvis Presley's daughter, after all. Somewhere in Argentina, the King of Rock and the King of Pop are eating deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches and toasting to their success with Coke cans full of Merlot.
I didn't realize how much I missed his troll self until I started in on this thread.
btw, does anyone remember when I nominated KiMS1 for best thread starter ever? Totally applies.
just sayin this now. I hate people that live on welfare. Im not talking about the ones who really need it but towards the people that have a shitload of kids just to get free money.
palucha66 responding to a comment by Dedicated818
07.7.09 - 11:09 pm
BTW, why doesn't Fox News discuss how we got to this 9% unemployment figure? Bush was handed a robust economy when he took the controls. He drove practically every sector into the ground.
User1 responding to a comment by LionSaciDking
07.8.09 - 2:25 am
my post above the one about the fucked up thread wasn't written by me. what i wrote was that MJ was actually in severe debt. his upcoming tour & "comeback" were supposed to pull him out of that. and well, that obviously didn't happen.
No free lunch - L.A. pays $50,000 for cop lunches
By Rick Orlov, Staff Writer
Updated: 07/08/2009 06:15:01 PM PDT
Feeding the controversy over taxpayer costs for the Michael Jackson memorial, officials disclosed Wednesday that the city paid nearly $50,000 for box lunches from an upscale market 80 miles northeast of L.A. for police who worked the event.
An outraged City Controller Wendy Greuel, whose office is responsible for paying city bills, said her staff researched the expense and found that 3,500 box lunches ordered from local Subway shops in Los Angeles would have cost only about $17,500.
"There are many troubling issues that are raised by this expenditure," Greuel said in a letter to Jim Featherstone, general manager of the Emergency Services Department.
"While it appears your office followed the rules for when an emergency is declared, it does not appear your office took steps to find the lowest possible price to provide lunch for the first responders."
She added that in the current economic climate it would have been better to have the meals purchased in the city of Los Angeles. Buying within the city would also give the city local sales tax revenue.
Instead, the lunches were made at Jensen's Finest Foods in Wrightwood, a hamlet tucked high in the San Gabriel Mountain range.
The lunch costs further fueled an already angry debate over why Los Angeles, in the middle of a budget crisis, has had to pay millions of dollars in personnel costs for the private event at Staples Center.
Council members say they have been inundated with irate calls and e-mails over the
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city costs involved, while the issue has also generated heated debate on local talk radio.
A spokesman for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said late Wednesday the city cost for providing services at the memorial was $1.4 million. Earlier estimates were as high as $5 million.
The city provided security, crowd and traffic control for the memorial service, which began at Forest Lawn Cemetery with a private event and then went on to Staples Center with a crowd of some 17,000.
Councilman Dennis Zine, who has emerged as the leading critic on the memorial cost issue, called Greuel's disclosures "amazing and incredible."
"First off, why would we use a firm in Wrightwood when it's so far away and we have so many restaurants in Los Angeles?" Zine said. "We just keep getting more and more questions."
But Featherstone said there was a good reason for the decision.
"This is a company that is under contract with the Fire Department and is the only one we know of locally who is able to meet our needs," Featherstone said. "They were able to pull together meals for 3,500 people in 12 hours' notice. That is a box with two meals and all the materials we need."
Featherstone said the emergency packets meet state and federal standards on rations for emergency personnel, including quality, durability and caloric values.
An official at Jensen's said the store, which has catered lunches for the city of Los Angeles before, has a catering operation that often prepares box lunches for police and firefighters responding to large events.
For the Jackson event, Jensen's made 3,500 box lunches, averaging to $13.95 per lunch for a total of $48,826. The lunch consisted of two drinks, two sandwiches - a croissant and hoagie - cookies, a granola bar, chips and gum.
It took 10 to 12 hours to put them all together.
"We just have an assembly line that puts it all in," said the Jensen's official, who declined to give her name. "We can get it done on a moment's notice."
An informal survey of catering companies in the Los Angeles basin found several that said they could provide that many box lunches with two sandwiches and drinks on short notice for the same price or perhaps a dollar or two less per lunch.
"I would be glad to do that order for Los Angeles, especially in these harsh economic times. I would even give a discount to the city," said Nathaniel Neubauer, owner of Contemporary Catering and Event Planning in West L.A.
Neubauer didn't have a precise estimate for the cost of an order that size, with delivery, but said he might be able to do it for around $12 per box lunch.
The city has put out a plea to Jackson supporters for donations to help cover the costs of the memorial. But that effort ran into a technological snag when the city's computer server was overwhelmed with traffic and crashed several times. It was down continuously for 12 hours Tuesday night through Wednesday morning and then sporadically throughout the day, according to the Mayor's Office.
Still, when the site was up and running, the city collected at least $17,000 in donations.
Zine called for Greuel and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich to conduct a complete review of the decision-making used in planning for the memorial service.
"I want to know who made the decisions to spend all this money," Zine said. "It wasn't Acting Mayor Jan Perry. It wasn't the City Council.
"I want to know who authorized the opening of the EOC (Emergency Operations Center), who authorized shutting down streets, putting out portable toilets. They closed off the freeway. Who authorized that?" Jackson died on June 25, but no decisions were made on the memorial service until last Thursday, while Villaraigosa was vacationing in South Africa and Councilwoman Jan Perry was acting mayor.
Trutanich has said he is reviewing the protocols used in the planning for the memorial service and hopes to have a report later this week or early next week.
"We are looking at all the options, what protocols are in place and what the city should be doing," Trutanich spokesman Frank Mateljan said. "The concern we have is who is paying the bills for this and for future events."
The LAPD had some 3,500 officers on the initial deployment - the same level that was provided for Pope John Paul II on his 1987 visit to Los Angeles and during the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
Police Chief Bill Bratton said he was able to release about 1,000 of the officers early because of the lighter-than-expected crowds. The action saved some money, although the officers were paid for the time on duty.
Zine has said he believes AEG, owner of Staples and organizer of the memorial, should pay for the city's costs, since it stands to benefit the most from any releases on the memorial service.
"If this was a normal event, they would have gone through a process with the city and we would have made arrangements," Zine said. "That didn't happen here."
AEG officials were not available for comment.
Staff Writers Greg Wilcox and Talal Ansari contributed to this report.
"While it appears your office followed the rules for when an emergency is declared, it does not appear your office took steps to find the lowest possible price to provide lunch for the first responders."
EMERGENCY DECLARED?????
FIRST RESPONDERS??????
3500 first responders for a 110lb stick that was allready dead?????
WTF???
I feel like we are the STUPIDEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
I just paid a $978 ticket for running a red light on my bicycle. Hope it filled up some FAT PIGS BELLY to escort an overpaid, freak child molester to his grave.
Now that there is tons of ridiculous bullshit, coupled with the fact that this was a San Bernardino County-based business, which I'm sure was recommended by one of the many LAPD officers that choose this dump of a county to live in.
They work for a bad-ass department, but choose to live in a county where the sheriff's department solely consists of rejects from other agencies.
But, getting back to the point, providing lunches for emergency personnel should be something quite simple to do and prepare for.
Whatever happened to using MRE's or some other treat they could've stockpiled and had ready for such an occurrence?
Special operations troops function just fine with these when they're loaded down with 30-60 pounds of gear and chasing pissed off Saudis through mountains, street cops should have no problem stomaching simple provisions.
What you must remember is the 30-60 lbs of gear the LAPD carry, is under the skin.
I LOVE MRE's!!!!!!!!
When I was a kid my dad would bring them home from the base and we would put them in our treehouse. We could live for hours up there, alone, away from the world. Untill my mom made lunch, dinner, snacks, or I had to do chores. COMPLETELY SELF SUSTAINABLE. Untill mom said get in the house.
Granted I've seen plenty of in-shape cops that don't have shit hanging over their belt-line, but there are plenty more that would die of a heart-attack following a foot-chase.
I might've let myself go a bit, but that's due to the fact my work-out routine was aligned with my old, 40+hr, swing-shift(I'll kill myself if they don't take me off this day-shift).
However, these guys are overpaid and well-equipped, the least they could do is have a little more pride in themselves and stop trying to look and eat like truck drivers.
1. Lazy factory work at piece of shit car manufacture gets laid off because people aren't buying V8 hemi's.
2. Lazy factory worker cannot afford small $.25 gumball machine Hanna Montana sticker pack for rugrat with rat tail hair cut at home.
3. Factory worker in small thrid world village gets laid off and family starves to death.
4. American government sees this as making the world more "green", because there is one less family to cosume our oil and water, in some new goverment engery crisis bill.
5. Crappy american car company gets more money to hire fat lazy worker back to make same piece of shit cars with a green leaf decal on the back that don't sell and fall apart.
Man I could go on for hours..............
parlorbikes responding to a comment by speedybrian2000
07.9.09 - 10:07 am