I'm hoping this results in roving gangs of vigilantes.

He's burning down the house. Like a Psycho Killer.

2wolves: My sweet lord, the insurance corporations will have to revise their profit projections down by .000000000000000000457%

"The horror! The horror!"

Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

No way is this the work of one person. Considering the area, I'm guessing it's a gang with nothing better to do.

Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

9beers: No way is this the work of one person. Considering the area, I'm guessing it's a gang with nothing better to do.

I wonder I wonder about the color if the members of this gang...

On the case:

Well, if most people in California were not such P*ssies, and they had the ability to defend themselves, they could shoot some of these b*stards and be done with it.

L.A. Arson Wave

/would make a great band name

L.A. people problems

OptimusHime: Eirik: 2wolves: My sweet lord, the insurance corporations will have to revise their profit projections down by .000000000000000000457%

"The horror! The horror!"

Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

This. I'm in the area where the fires have started and just got a new car this month. Definitely thankful for semi-secure parking, but right now I'm wishing it was a vault.

2wolves, you're an idiot. That is all.

What's with all the carports? Does no one out there have an actual garage? Perhaps the person(s) is torching cars in the open or carports because of the easy access. How quickly can you turn a carport into a garage?

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is

GleeUnit: I just read this story on CNN right before coming here... Apparently the mayor of West Hollywood was quite eager to classify this as "a new form of domestic terrorism."

That word seems to get thrown around quite a farking bit nowadays. Makes me twitchy. Not the arson, but the "terrorism" modifier. Some asshat lighting cars on fire is not terrorism.

/Oh, by the way, Obama signed NDAA yesterday if I'm not mistaken. The "real terrorists" have won.
//Guilty until proven innocent is the new law of the land

My favorite is 'terroristic threats'. My autospell has never even hard of the word 'terroristic' but it now regularly gets added to trumped up charges for just about anything where you might have yelled at someone.

kittyhas1000legs: What's with all the carports? Does no one out there have an actual garage? Perhaps the person(s) is torching cars in the open or carports because of the easy access. How quickly can you turn a carport into a garage?

Pretty quick if not for the underground counterfeit blue jeans ring runnin out of them

2wolves: My sweet lord, the insurance corporations will have to revise their profit projections down by .000000000000000000457%

"The horror! The horror!"

I bet you wwebsite as on the internet.

Apparently he/they are dropping an incendiary device under the front of the car and driving off. It only takes a couple seconds.

/Was at a NYE party in that area

lewismarktwo: GleeUnit: I just read this story on CNN right before coming here... Apparently the mayor of West Hollywood was quite eager to classify this as "a new form of domestic terrorism."

That word seems to get thrown around quite a farking bit nowadays. Makes me twitchy. Not the arson, but the "terrorism" modifier. Some asshat lighting cars on fire is not terrorism.

/Oh, by the way, Obama signed NDAA yesterday if I'm not mistaken. The "real terrorists" have won.
//Guilty until proven innocent is the new law of the land

My favorite is 'terroristic threats'. My autospell has never even hard of the word 'terroristic' but it now regularly gets added to trumped up charges for just about anything where you might have yelled at someone.
I can't wait for the terrorist as a buzzword meme to die out

kittyhas1000legs: What's with all the carports? Does no one out there have an actual garage? Perhaps the person(s) is torching cars in the open or carports because of the easy access. How quickly can you turn a carport into a garage?

Depends on the build of the carport, your access to tools and materials, personal skill, and city code.

If it's permissable to do it (and not some bizarre code-housing-thing where you have to declare it an official renovation/addition/whatever), and you have all the stuff, and the carport was built to withstand the additional weight (that is, has good strong foundation and uprights)...a couple hours?

If it's a few 2x4's stuck a foot in the ground with sheet metal bolted to the top and no structure...a full day. Because you're going to need to tear down and rebuild that mother. Make it 2 days if you're going to set anything in concrete, just to give it time to set.

finnished: Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

But Hollywood/West Hollywood are densely populated areas where people tend to live in apartments, not houses. The parking areas are at street level, often with no garage doors (our building doesn't, for example):



Imagine how easy it would be to through a Molotov or something of its ilk from the street...

kittyhas1000legs: How quickly can you convince your landlord to turn a carport into a garage?


FTFY

\My guess? If they're not going to make any profit from doing it, they're not going to do it.
\\Landlords will just tell you to get renter's insurance

I put up a sign saying "Dead ****** Storage" just in case

I light the fires while the city sleeps. (new window)

Potential suspect?

Calm Down You Spaz: 9beers: No way is this the work of one person. Considering the area, I'm guessing it's a gang with nothing better to do.

I wonder I wonder about the color if the members of this gang...

Why would color matter?

GleeUnit: I just read this story on CNN right before coming here... Apparently the mayor of West Hollywood was quite eager to classify this as "a new form of domestic terrorism."

That word seems to get thrown around quite a farking bit nowadays. Makes me twitchy. Not the arson, but the "terrorism" modifier. Some asshat lighting cars on fire is not terrorism.

/Oh, by the way, Obama signed NDAA yesterday if I'm not mistaken. The "real terrorists" have won.
//Guilty until proven innocent is the new law of the land

You sound like a terrorist.
Expect a visit soon.

shower_in_my_socks: p51d007: Well, if most people in California were not such P*ssies, and they had the ability to defend themselves, they could shoot some of these b*stards and be done with it.


3/10.

Because nobody in California ever shoots anybody else, right? Frankly, I like living in a state where it isn't legal to murder someone just because they're f*cking with your worldly possessions that would take you a whole 24 hours to replace.


So are you required to wait until they shoot you before you can shoot them?

FizixJunkee: finnished: Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

But Hollywood/West Hollywood are densely populated areas where people tend to live in apartments, not houses. The parking areas are at street level, often with no garage doors (our building doesn't, for example):

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Imagine how easy it would be to through a Molotov or something of its ilk from the street...

So apparently the Crapi Apartments is a real place and there are many blogs to testify to that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiHcPCMQRKU

Thanks.

FizixJunkee: finnished: Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

But Hollywood/West Hollywood are densely populated areas where people tend to live in apartments, not houses. The parking areas are at street level, often with no garage doors (our building doesn't, for example):

[img.metblogs.com image 640x450]

Imagine how easy it would be to through a Molotov or something of its ilk from the street...

Any vacancies at the Crapi Apartments?

FizixJunkee: finnished: Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

But Hollywood/West Hollywood are densely populated areas where people tend to live in apartments, not houses. The parking areas are at street level, often with no garage doors (our building doesn't, for example):

[img.metblogs.com image 640x450]

Imagine how easy it would be to through a Molotov or something of its ilk from the street...

throw, not through.

\spelling fail on my part

GleeUnit: FizixJunkee: finnished: Eirik: Yes, because if someone torched your car tomorrow, the only thing that you'd have to worry about is your insurance company.

Especially if the car was parked in your garage, attached to your house.

But Hollywood/West Hollywood are densely populated areas where people tend to live in apartments, not houses. The parking areas are at street level, often with no garage doors (our building doesn't, for example):

[img.metblogs.com image 640x450]

Imagine how easy it would be to through a Molotov or something of its ilk from the street...

Dear god, please tell me you actually live in the Crapi Apartments.


No, we live in something similar, though. This sort of construction is quite common here.

Two thoughts. First: Link (new window)

Second: In the 8th photo a guy, looking over the damage to his apartment, is wearing a shirt that says, "I'm having a nice day. Don't screw it up!" Which is hilarious.

GaryPDX: GleeUnit: I just read this story on CNN right before coming here... Apparently the mayor of West Hollywood was quite eager to classify this as "a new form of domestic terrorism."

Of course. Now he/they can be detained forever in a military brig somewhere.

I hope to god they call in military forces (national guard) or institute martial law or curfews. Maybe then the American people would wake the hell up. Especially the Obama supporters.

/reformed obama supporter.

I second the motion for a vigilante solution. Much like graffiti, this is a problem easily solved by head shots.