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Speaker 2: It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to
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Speaker 2: Daniel Gus, Welcome.
Speaker 7: Welcome back to thank you very much. You know, I
Speaker 7: had Karen Bass fixing my iPad and wouldn't you know,
Speaker 7: just as I'm ready to go on, things go south.
Speaker 7: So thank you very much for having me on. I'll
Speaker 7: fix the tech next time.
Speaker 2: So you are our eyes and ears at City Hall,
Speaker 2: and I cannot wait to get into all of the
Speaker 2: drama that's been going on recently because now that we
Speaker 2: know that the November ballad is going to be Karen
Speaker 2: Bass against Nythia Rahmen, Nythia Rahmen's colleagues on the City
Speaker 2: Council are almost uniformly siding with Bass over her, and
Speaker 2: apparently they don't like her that much, because, oh boy,
Speaker 2: are they taking shots at her right and left during
Speaker 2: those council meetings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and if you saw a Milda Padilla, the council
Speaker 7: member for CD six, which is Van Eyes and locations
Speaker 7: north of Van Eyes, she was ripping into her. She's
Speaker 7: her new homelesses are in La and Monica Rodriguez from
Speaker 7: the northern part of Council District seven. They were taking
Speaker 7: shots at Nythia and clearly it's a feeding frenzy and
Speaker 7: for once, Nythia Ramen is on the menu, and it.
Speaker 2: Looks like it looks like they're being directed by Bass
Speaker 2: to do this. They are Bass's henchmen. Not that I'm
Speaker 2: opposed to it, because I love seeing Nythia Ramen get
Speaker 2: her come up ins, but it seems like a coordinated
Speaker 2: attack against Ramen from various members of the council that
Speaker 2: just goes on on a daily basis.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's going on and it's like the
Speaker 7: part in the politically incorrect expression, but it's the Chinese
Speaker 7: water torture because it's one after the other. And you
Speaker 7: know it's being directed by Bass and her acolytes because
Speaker 7: they control the city council agenda. Well, that's actually Marquis
Speaker 7: Harris Dawson, who used to run Karen Bass's nonprofit. And
Speaker 7: of course, if something happens to Karen Bass's mayor, like
Speaker 7: if there's a recall, like if she's indicted, well he
Speaker 7: can actually appoint himself as inter a mayor for virtually
Speaker 7: her entire term in office if I read the law correctly.
Speaker 7: So it's in Harris Dawson's best interest to hold Nythia
Speaker 7: Ramen down fair or not. But who wants Nythia rama
Speaker 7: to be treated on an even playing field when she
Speaker 7: has more than done her part to contribute to the erosion,
Speaker 7: the corrosion, and the corruption in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: So yes, absolutely coordinated. We may not see it, but
Speaker 7: we know it's there.
Speaker 2: We know that DSA candidates have been doing well in
Speaker 2: big city mayor's races around the country, including New York City, Chicago, Seattle,
Speaker 2: and elsewhere. We've also seen DSA candidates do well at
Speaker 2: the congressional level. They've won primaries in states like New York, Colorado, California,
Speaker 2: and beyond. We just saw a DSA friendly candidate when
Speaker 2: the US Senate nomination in the state of Michigan, which
Speaker 2: is regarded as being the swingiest of polls. But right now,
Speaker 2: recent polls show that Karen Bass is leading Nythia Ramen
Speaker 2: in the polls. There was one that came out recently
Speaker 2: that was conducted between July the thirtieth and August the
Speaker 2: fifth of likely voters, and they found Bass on top
Speaker 2: with fifty percent over Nythia Rahman's thirty nine percent. That
Speaker 2: was median strategies that would then be outside the margin
Speaker 2: of air. So if that poll is correct, it certainly
Speaker 2: looks like Karen Bass is the favorite right now.
Speaker 7: Right And the truth is not that I want to
Speaker 7: be one to help Karen Bass get a second term,
Speaker 7: because it will only affirm for her and all of
Speaker 7: her cronies that what they did for the past four
Speaker 7: years is something we want more of for the next
Speaker 7: four years. But the dagger in the heart if the
Speaker 7: Karen Bass wants to defeat Nythia Ramen whenever they debate
Speaker 7: all she has to do is say, miss Ramen, in
Speaker 7: order to get the DSA endorsement that you've got last
Speaker 7: time you ran for city council, you had to agree
Speaker 7: to co govern with the Democratic Socialists of America. Please
Speaker 7: tell us how you co governed with the DSA. How
Speaker 7: much power did you give them? That will be the
Speaker 7: dagger in the heart that will end the campaign and
Speaker 7: send Karen Bass for a second back for a second term.
Speaker 7: Nythia Rahman won't know how to respond, and anything that
Speaker 7: she does say will will basically suffocate what's remaining of
Speaker 7: her campaign.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, it was announced that Lineage would not meet the
Speaker 2: deadline and Boyle Heights would not be cleaned up when
Speaker 2: residents were told it would be cleaned up. Karen Mass
Speaker 2: seems to be furious over this and has been publicly
Speaker 2: attacking the company, saying there will be repercussions for them
Speaker 2: not meeting the deadline. How much does she think this
Speaker 2: hurts her, the fact that this deadline was not met.
Speaker 7: It's not ideal, but she has to toe the line.
Speaker 7: She has to say, why, by golly, I'm going to
Speaker 7: stand up for those blue collar folks and the immigrant
Speaker 7: community and Boyle Heights and if you just give me
Speaker 7: four years, I will hold their feet to the fire. Ooh,
Speaker 7: bad choice of words. You know, it's not ideal whenever
Speaker 7: you have an environmental disaster, especially in a load to
Speaker 7: median income community like Boyle Heights. So not ideal, but
Speaker 7: it gives her something to champion. If you just kind
Speaker 7: of go one eight on it, she could say this
Speaker 7: is going to be my this is going to be
Speaker 7: my reason for living and getting another four years. I'm
Speaker 7: going to fight Lineage for the people of Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2: Why do you think she hasn't gone after the county
Speaker 2: Because it was Barbara Ferrer in the county who told
Speaker 2: those people it was safe to breathe in the smoke.
Speaker 2: It was the county who said you don't need to evacuate.
Speaker 2: It's the county that runs the Department of Public Health,
Speaker 2: not the city. Bass is blaming Lineage and she is
Speaker 2: going after them with swords, But so far she hasn't
Speaker 2: directly attacked the county. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 2: Oh well, geeve.
Speaker 7: These are the people who sit next to her at
Speaker 7: the Metro board meetings. These are the people whose endorsements
Speaker 7: do matter. Hilda Slise Catherine Barger, Holly Mitchell, Janis Hahn,
Speaker 7: Lindsay Horbet. Their endorsements do matter. They do make a difference.
Speaker 7: And when you have a private company or public I
Speaker 7: don't know if it's privately or publicly held, but a
Speaker 7: politician will always criticize a company rather than other politicians
Speaker 7: until unless it's a Neuri Martinez, Kevin Dalone Gilsedio disaster
Speaker 7: on a national level, they will always attack a company
Speaker 7: rather than a politician because that's what they do, and
Speaker 7: that's what the La Times does. They go after something
Speaker 7: other than the political circle that has got them into
Speaker 7: the office and will keep them in office.
Speaker 2: As someone who closely covered the LA Mayor's race in
Speaker 2: the primary, you became very familiar with Spencer Pratt as
Speaker 2: a candidate, as certainly someone who was a victim of
Speaker 2: the fire and in other capacities. It was reported yesterday
Speaker 2: by the California Post that he is being considered to
Speaker 2: be the next Press secretary for the White House. You
Speaker 2: look at the Betty Markets, his name is on that list.
Speaker 2: So it's real enough for Las Vegas to be taking money.
Speaker 2: If you want to lay some down on Spencer Pratt
Speaker 2: as the next Press secretary for the White House. What
Speaker 2: kind of press secretary do you think he would make
Speaker 2: if he were to take that job, If he were
Speaker 2: to be offered and accept that.
Speaker 7: Job, you presciently said yesterday exactly my thoughts. He would
Speaker 7: be transparent, he would be direct, he would be crisp
Speaker 7: and his messaging he would be on point all the time.
Speaker 7: He would be fantastic in that job if he were
Speaker 7: to be offered it and accepted it. From a betting perspective,
Speaker 7: my money would be on Alena Haba for her history
Speaker 7: with Trump. She's a good looking attorney, she's good on camera,
Speaker 7: and she's worked more closely with Trump. But you know,
Speaker 7: I think Spencer would be a fantastic spokesperson, although from
Speaker 7: a personal point of view, I want to see his
Speaker 7: imprint on Southern California politics because I just in my gut,
Speaker 7: maybe I'm delusional. I think there's going to be indictment.
Speaker 7: I think there's going to be a recall, and I'm
Speaker 7: not sure it's going to be so easy for Harris
Speaker 7: daus And to appoint himself mayor if and when Karen
Speaker 7: Bass is indicted or recalled. That's my selfish personal point
Speaker 7: of view. But to your question, Spencer would be a
Speaker 7: fantastic pre secretary for President Trump.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, we got a call from a Los Angeles resident,
Speaker 2: a voter in LA. He described himself as being a Republican,
Speaker 2: as someone who was a Trump voter, as someone who
Speaker 2: is certainly right of center, and he said that on
Speaker 2: the issues he agreed with Spencer Pratt pretty much across
Speaker 2: the board. However, he didn't vote for him. In fact,
Speaker 2: he didn't voted at all because he thought that Spencer
Speaker 2: Pratt would be an embarrassment, would bring on embarrassment to
Speaker 2: the city of Los Angeles. As someone who covered Spencer
Speaker 2: Pratt closely, do you think he would have been an
Speaker 2: embarrassment if he was elected mayor?
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, no, I didn't think that from the outset,
Speaker 7: but I heard that caller, and I could understand where
Speaker 7: somebody might have thought that from the outset. But if
Speaker 7: you listen to any of Pratt's media interviews, his social
Speaker 7: media content, every time I saw this. By the way,
Speaker 7: I never met the guy prior to election day. I
Speaker 7: had been in touch with him, but I'd never actually
Speaker 7: met him in person prior to election day. And so
Speaker 7: if anybody was considering him may have harbored those thoughts
Speaker 7: at the outset at the announcement of his campaign. I
Speaker 7: don't know a single person who would be open to
Speaker 7: voting for him that didn't eventually come to think, Gee,
Speaker 7: this guy is on and you know what. Phat had
Speaker 7: the right answer. He said, I don't know how to
Speaker 7: have to run a city budget. I would have economists
Speaker 7: and budget experts. It's the same way Karen Bass didn't
Speaker 7: have any experience with this. He was on point with
Speaker 7: the issues every single time I saw him say anything
Speaker 7: in the mayor's race. So no, he wouldn't have been
Speaker 7: an embarrassment. And I don't know anybody who didn't evolve
Speaker 7: into that. So it makes me wonder if that person
Speaker 7: really is a Republican or really is a Democrat. Because
Speaker 7: by the time a month before election day, it was
Speaker 7: very clear that this guy had a handle on the issues,
Speaker 7: and he said the thing that was most important to
Speaker 7: me if he were elected mayor, he was going to
Speaker 7: open the books to the FBI and open the books
Speaker 7: to the irs. That is the number one thing that
Speaker 7: the city of Los Angeles needs. He's the only one
Speaker 7: who promised it. So if that person was speaking genuinely.
Speaker 7: I don't know where they're coming from.
Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt says that he is no longer going to
Speaker 2: run for elected office, that he is going to try
Speaker 2: to influence the government from outside of elected office. Do
Speaker 2: you believe him or do you think we could see
Speaker 2: his name on the ballot at some point in the future.
Speaker 7: I have found him to be a very transparent person.
Speaker 7: I don't want to believe that statement. I hope that
Speaker 7: circumstances may change that he will appear on it. I
Speaker 7: absolutely thought this guy was the right person at the
Speaker 7: right time, and I think his messaging was so much
Speaker 7: greater than Rick Caruso's was four years earlier. So if
Speaker 7: he says it, I hope. I hope circumstances change that
Speaker 7: we can see him once he learns even more about
Speaker 7: the system then we know already, So I take him
Speaker 7: at face value. I hope things change that will change
Speaker 7: his mind.
Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt has also suggested that he has damaging information
Speaker 2: on at least one of the two candidates for mayor
Speaker 2: that could be damaging enough to put them behind bars
Speaker 2: and to cost them the LA mayor seed. Do you
Speaker 2: believe that to be true, and if so, do you
Speaker 2: have any idea what it is that he has.
Speaker 7: I absolutely believe it's true, because every indication was that
Speaker 7: he was going to make the runoff, and he would
Speaker 7: have had to have shown his cards. And I have
Speaker 7: never known him to be dishonest or disingenuous or do
Speaker 7: a sleight of hand. Not in any single instance. Do
Speaker 7: I have a clue about what it is. I have
Speaker 7: my own ideas about what it might be about Bass
Speaker 7: or about Ramen, but I do not have a clue
Speaker 7: about what he has on whichever one he has stuff on,
Speaker 7: I have my own ideas, but I don't know if
Speaker 7: those are the same things that he has in his
Speaker 7: hip pocket there.
Speaker 2: What does your gut tell you about who's going to
Speaker 2: win this race? We know the polls we talked about
Speaker 2: the polls moments ago show Bass currently in the lead.
Speaker 2: Do you think that she is going to be able
Speaker 2: to survive this challenge or do you think Ramen's going
Speaker 2: to be able to sneak up from behind.
Speaker 7: I think that's a great question. I think Karen Bass
Speaker 7: is going to win in a landslide, right. And it's
Speaker 7: tragic because what you said, just what you said before,
Speaker 7: is that they both deserve to neither deserves to win,
Speaker 7: but Karen Bass deserves to lose. Yet, knowing what we know,
Speaker 7: election after election after election, I think it's not going
Speaker 7: to be closed. I think Bass is going to win
Speaker 7: at least by double digits, unless there's some sort of
Speaker 7: ballot harvesting chaos, which we know is always an option.
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Speaker 2: All right, it's now time to open up the California
Speaker 2: crime bladder.
Speaker 1: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 5: Nice see time for the California r Blood.
Speaker 2: And Randy correct me if I'm wrong on the pronunciation.
Speaker 2: But I think this one involves catalytic converters.
Speaker 4: Can we get a check on.
Speaker 8: That, you know, let's criminalize catalystic converters.
Speaker 4: Let's criminalized copper. I think it's catalystic.
Speaker 6: There's been some catalystic converter thieve and going on in
Speaker 6: Eagle Rock for more on this. We got a KTLA
Speaker 6: five in Los Angeles now at.
Speaker 9: Eleven catalytic converter thieves strike in the dead of night
Speaker 9: with an armed lookout scene pointing a long gun at home.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, they mean business.
Speaker 9: Good evening. I'm MICHAELH.
Speaker 1: Holman.
Speaker 4: Crime is down right, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Criminals are afraid of getting caught, so they are just
Speaker 6: holding out a gun in the middle of the street
Speaker 6: while their buddies boost a catalytic converter.
Speaker 2: If you were smart enough to understand statistics, you'd know
Speaker 2: that crime in Los Angeles is at historic lows.
Speaker 7: And I'm Sandra Mitchell cher has the night off that
Speaker 7: in't higher.
Speaker 10: Coordinated crime was captured on a surveillance camera.
Speaker 9: The themes are scene ripping that catalytic converter from the
Speaker 9: car and fleeing the scene in less than ninety seconds.
Speaker 9: KTLA's Jillian smucked their live.
Speaker 6: And even if we had a fully staffed LAPD, we
Speaker 6: couldn't respond to that.
Speaker 2: Ninety seconds. That's shorter than a commercial break.
Speaker 9: Eagle Rock with the video man, a story you'll see
Speaker 9: only on five.
Speaker 11: Jillian, Yeah, Mike. And while we were here, we met
Speaker 11: another man who's actually had two cars stolen in less
Speaker 11: than two months, with one of those happening adjust this morning.
Speaker 2: And now, my goodness, I told you about my cousin
Speaker 2: who had his truck stolen out of his driveway in
Speaker 2: Seal Beach and they found it in South LA. They
Speaker 2: caught the person who did it, and he had a
Speaker 2: rap sheet a mile long. And I asked him what
Speaker 2: he was doing this morning, and he said he's in
Speaker 2: rural Oregon looking at helmes that that was the straw
Speaker 2: that broke the camel's back, and he's done.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 11: How the neighborhood is left on edge as police continue
Speaker 11: searching for those.
Speaker 12: Suspects, something like this is just unimaginable to me.
Speaker 11: For eleven years, Sylvia Sassetto says, this Eagle Rock neighborhood
Speaker 11: has felt safe until Tuesday morning.
Speaker 12: My car alarm started going off and I ran to
Speaker 12: the window because I thought my car was being stolen.
Speaker 11: And when she looked outside, she saw a man underneath.
Speaker 12: It, and once I saw that, I knew they were
Speaker 12: trying to steal my catalytic converter.
Speaker 11: Surveillance video shows one man under Sylvia's car, while another
Speaker 11: appears to be underneath a blue Toyota Corolla parked nearby.
Speaker 11: Sylvia says four or five men were involved, working together
Speaker 11: to get both catalytic converters in less than three minutes.
Speaker 11: Then she noticed another man in the street. The video
Speaker 11: shows him holding what appears to be a rifle, pointing
Speaker 11: it toward the direction of Sylvia's apartment.
Speaker 6: But at the time that is scary as hell, So
Speaker 6: they were fully prepared to kill someone if so someone
Speaker 6: woke up due to the car.
Speaker 2: Alarm and walked in on them stealing the catalytic converters.
Speaker 6: Well, we know some of these crews straight up have
Speaker 6: killed people over stealing catalytic converters. Whether you want to
Speaker 6: talk about the actor Johnny Whackter in downtown Los Angeles,
Speaker 6: there was a guy in Inglewood last year. People are
Speaker 6: getting murdered over these thousand dollars little pieces of equipment.
Speaker 2: These people should be in prison for twenty five years
Speaker 2: because what they're doing is they're playing Russian roulette with
Speaker 2: five bullets in the chamber. They were fully prepared to
Speaker 2: murder someone if someone walked in on their criminal activity time.
Speaker 11: She says she didn't realize he was armed.
Speaker 12: It was chilling. It was like I got like just
Speaker 12: the worst feeling ever of like, okay, this is I'm
Speaker 12: super helpless. This is very scary situations.
Speaker 11: The suspects.
Speaker 6: How many times do you think in the last twenty
Speaker 6: four hours she's checked zillow.
Speaker 2: She might run into my cousin in organ.
Speaker 11: Wearing hoodies and masks. Took off in a white suv
Speaker 11: heading west on Merton Avenue and just two apartment complexes down.
Speaker 11: Another neighbor has been dealing with the string of car thefts.
Speaker 11: This is video from when his first car was stolen
Speaker 11: back in June.
Speaker 13: They came with a grinder and you see like in
Speaker 13: the video them grinding off the searing real love.
Speaker 11: Then Thursday morning around that's a move.
Speaker 6: They're using power tools. They actually found a way to
Speaker 6: defeat the club.
Speaker 11: Around three point thirty. His other car was stolen.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, that guy's going to be using Uber
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 11: Police have since recovered it, but these pictures show what's left.
Speaker 6: If you're only listening to us on the radio. The
Speaker 6: hood is missing, half the parts are missing. It looks
Speaker 6: like the scavengers got to it real quick after it
Speaker 6: was probably dumped in the La River.
Speaker 2: What do you do if they turned the car over
Speaker 2: to you in that condition.
Speaker 6: Well, you called trip La and you tell them it's
Speaker 6: a total loss.
Speaker 13: Buddies, It's completely gone. Fenders are gone, hood's gone, headlights
Speaker 13: are gone from bumper's gone, airbags the steeringwell, airbeg's gone.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure there's an illegal aftermarket for all of this,
Speaker 6: just like the illegal after market for the catalytic converters,
Speaker 6: which are stolen for the platinum inside. Why we need
Speaker 6: platinum for this stupid piece of equipment, I don't know,
Speaker 6: But that's not the point. The point is not only
Speaker 6: do we not go after the people stealing all of
Speaker 6: this stuff, we do not go after the people buying
Speaker 6: all these stolen goods, including the same people that are
Speaker 6: buying copper wire, the recyclers and the junkers and the smelters.
Speaker 6: Those are people with business licenses that for some reason
Speaker 6: are untouchable.
Speaker 2: I would love to know who these people voted for.
Speaker 2: Did they vote for Rick Caruso when they had the
Speaker 2: opportunity to, or did they vote for Karen Bass, because
Speaker 2: if they voted for Karen Bass, they voted for this
Speaker 2: Bass turns.
Speaker 13: I like that all our belongings, my passport.
Speaker 11: Two cars.
Speaker 6: Wait, why was your passport in your car? That's a
Speaker 6: terrible idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what oj had when he was on the
Speaker 2: slow speed.
Speaker 11: Chase Jolin from the same man. In less than two months,
Speaker 11: two catalytic converters stolen from cars on the same street.
Speaker 11: It's unclear whether the same group is behind the crimes.
Speaker 13: That they definitely knew what they were doing and they
Speaker 13: had seen that vehicle before.
Speaker 11: But both victims say they want whoever is responsible to
Speaker 11: be found.
Speaker 12: It'd be nice to, you know, have them caught, hopefully
Speaker 12: not have anybody else go through this is this is scary.
Speaker 6: They're probably not getting caught. Good luck with that, lady.
Speaker 11: So if you have any information about the suspects, the
Speaker 11: white suv they got into, or any information about the case, itself.
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Speaker 2: And Randy. This one involve the ATM.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but now I got to go into yesterday's caption
Speaker 6: so I can load it up. Here we go this one.
Speaker 6: There's a brand new trend called cash trapping, and it's
Speaker 6: exactly what it sounds like. For more on how they
Speaker 6: trap your cash at the ATM so you can't get it,
Speaker 6: here is NBC four.
Speaker 10: Also new here at five a new scam in the
Speaker 10: San Gabriel Valley. It's called cash trapping. Police say thieves
Speaker 10: are taking people's money when they try to withdraw from
Speaker 10: the ATM.
Speaker 14: And.
Speaker 6: When it comes out of the slot, it goes into
Speaker 6: a place where you think Oh, it just didn't come
Speaker 6: out and the machine's broken. But really it came out
Speaker 6: into a device that then the criminal can take your money.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 10: PBC four is a Lalita lopezl live right now in Pasadena.
Speaker 6: Seriously, every single day in the news, there are just
Speaker 6: less and less reasons to have cash, carry cash, or
Speaker 6: take cash. And I know people get all upset about
Speaker 6: the idea of a digital society, but in my opinion,
Speaker 6: cash is a liability.
Speaker 2: Whatever I withdraw cash from the bank, I like to
Speaker 2: go to a teller. Now, the banks aren't open twenty
Speaker 2: four hours a day, so you don't always have the option,
Speaker 2: but at least then something like this can't happen.
Speaker 1: To explain how.
Speaker 10: It works and what police say you can do to
Speaker 10: protect yourself, Lalita.
Speaker 15: Yeah, a couple of things that you can do before
Speaker 15: you go to an ATM, Colleen. Cash shrapping is happening
Speaker 15: across the San Gabriel Valley, according to police, and these
Speaker 15: teams will help you no matter which ATM you use
Speaker 15: in whichever location. Take a listen.
Speaker 3: I just I'm surprised I had never heard of it.
Speaker 4: I think that's terrible.
Speaker 3: It's scary.
Speaker 15: These ATM customers had no idea about cash trapping, and.
Speaker 6: Just because the bank ATM is next to the Baskin
Speaker 6: Robbins John doesn't mean that's where she was going with it.
Speaker 2: That's where I'd be going.
Speaker 15: Police want everyone to pay attention to what they call
Speaker 15: a new crime trend. The San Marino Police Department released
Speaker 15: this flyer showing how it works. Police say a cash
Speaker 15: trap is a long metal cover and it is placed
Speaker 15: over an ATM's cash slot. When the trap is on
Speaker 15: the machine, no money can come out. After a customer
Speaker 15: puts in their information and is waiting for their cash,
Speaker 15: it appears the machine didn't dispense money, but really it
Speaker 15: is trapped behind the cover.
Speaker 6: We've gone from card skimmers, where they steal your credit
Speaker 6: card information when you put it in the slot, to
Speaker 6: just straight up stealing the cash when you try to
Speaker 6: take it out.
Speaker 2: I'm always worried when I use the ATM about people
Speaker 2: who are following you or watching you. They know that
Speaker 2: you're walking away from the ATM with a bunch of cash,
Speaker 2: and if they want to rob you, they can do it.
Speaker 6: That's called bank jugging. There's terms for all of this nonsense.
Speaker 15: Your account has less money but it is not in
Speaker 15: your hands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, every ding this, you just think that ATM's not
Speaker 8: working and someone's stealing it from you.
Speaker 1: Sam Ma Reno.
Speaker 15: Police say local banks reached out to them about cash trapping,
Speaker 15: and they also discovered it is happening in nearby cities.
Speaker 15: Police say before using an ATM, inspect the card reader
Speaker 15: for any skimmers or loose parts. Another way of also trying.
Speaker 6: To check the ATM machine to make sure it's not
Speaker 6: booby trapped to steal your identity or your money. No,
Speaker 6: I'm not an engineer. I'm not gonna do all that nonsense.
Speaker 6: You can barely figure out how to dial into this show,
Speaker 6: no kidding.
Speaker 15: To take information. Also, they say, check the cash slot
Speaker 15: and make sure you can see where the bills will
Speaker 15: be dispensed, and if some looks off, use a different
Speaker 15: machine and report it to the bank or business right away.
Speaker 15: This man had his own solution.
Speaker 7: Using an ATM connected to the bank where you can
Speaker 7: walk in and tell them if you had a problem.
Speaker 15: Good point there.
Speaker 4: You know, we're not sure if that guy was going
Speaker 4: to go to the dentist after.
Speaker 2: My guess is no use.
Speaker 15: Those ATMs during business hours, But a lot of times,
Speaker 15: especially ones like this one on the street. Sometimes you
Speaker 15: just need cash whenever, so police say make sure to
Speaker 15: follow those tips. Live in Pasadena, Lily Thlop as NBC
Speaker 15: four News.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 6: Be careful when you go to the ATM because crooks
Speaker 6: are putting traps in front of the cash slots to
Speaker 6: steal your money.
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Speaker 2: Bloater and Randy. This one involve as a stolen phone.
Speaker 6: Specifically a bunch of stolen phones at Outside Lands, the
Speaker 6: incredible music festival held at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
Speaker 6: that took place last week. There were a lot of
Speaker 6: people that attended and had a great time, and there
Speaker 6: were some people that attended and had their phone stolen
Speaker 6: from their pockets, and some of those phones ended up
Speaker 6: in you guessed it, Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say Oakland.
Speaker 6: Las worse than Oakland. LA is worse than Oakland. I
Speaker 6: will go to my grave believing that LA is worse
Speaker 6: than Oakland. At this point, I'd rather do a live
Speaker 6: remote in oak Glyn than anywhere in downtown Los Angeles. Well,
Speaker 6: you may get your chance to do both for more.
Speaker 6: Here is kron four and outside.
Speaker 10: Land's attendee says that her phone was stolen in the crowd,
Speaker 10: and she's not alone.
Speaker 6: And if you're wondering how the attendee didn't notice that
Speaker 6: their phone was stolen, just remember that a good portion
Speaker 6: of the people that go to music festivals are high
Speaker 6: on ecstasy, mushrooms, acid, or a combination of the three.
Speaker 2: And she says she tracked her phone to a Los
Speaker 2: Angeles address, and other festival goers told her their phones
Speaker 2: that also had been stolen and chewed up in LA
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Confors Gelong reports, it really.
Speaker 6: Just because you got to be on something to not
Speaker 6: realize your phone's not on you. We all treat it
Speaker 6: like an appendage, and the second you realize you left
Speaker 6: it on the counter, you start feeling like something's wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you're so high on drugs that your phone
Speaker 2: is getting stolen from you you don't even know about
Speaker 2: it for several days, maybe it's time to reevaluate your
Speaker 2: decision making.
Speaker 6: The thing is, these kind of music festivals, the crowds
Speaker 6: are so massive. Unless you're on all those drugs, it's
Speaker 6: super uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: I cannot stand being around crowds. That's part of the
Speaker 2: reason I'm an angel.
Speaker 8: Fan been so fast.
Speaker 14: What was supposed to be a fun weekend full of
Speaker 14: music turned in yeah that girl was high, oh yeah,
Speaker 14: to a frustrating ordeal after one outside lance attendee discovered
Speaker 14: her phone had been stolen.
Speaker 8: I was moving from one set to the next. It
Speaker 8: was crowded. I had my phone before we started moving,
Speaker 8: and then when we got to the next stage, my
Speaker 8: phone was suddenly gone.
Speaker 14: We spoke with Crystal, a Bay Area resident, who did
Speaker 14: not you know, it's.
Speaker 6: Another tell that a whole bunch of people are on ecstasy.
Speaker 6: They're all smoking menthol cigarettes because people on e love menthol.
Speaker 14: I want to share her last name, but attended the
Speaker 14: music festival for the first time.
Speaker 8: It was in my pocket, I believe, so it was
Speaker 8: pretty close to my body, just in like my front
Speaker 8: and vest pocket.
Speaker 6: So yeah, when it was in your vest and you
Speaker 6: didn't notice, so what she just thought she was getting
Speaker 6: felt up and she was fine with that. It was
Speaker 6: a music festival, so people do. That's what the young
Speaker 6: kids want to do. They want to let loose.
Speaker 8: That was enough for it, and.
Speaker 6: They're on drugs that make everything that touches you I
Speaker 6: feel like the greatest thing in the world until the comdown.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe she should take it before she goes through TSA.
Speaker 8: This person whoever took it to just snatch it right
Speaker 8: out of there.
Speaker 14: Crystal says she tracked her phone using the Find my
Speaker 14: iPhone feature and watched it travel from the Bay Area
Speaker 14: to an address on Sixth Street in Los Angeles's Koreatown.
Speaker 6: Lovely flew all the way down the five from right
Speaker 6: out of her bosom to Korea Town.
Speaker 3: What a journey, and shared her experience on Reddit.
Speaker 8: When I posted the location, so many more people also
Speaker 8: commented that their phones were also stolen at outside Lands
Speaker 8: and also tracking to the same location in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Crystal says she filed a police report with.
Speaker 6: You and I would do if I was Daniel Lurie
Speaker 6: no more La attendees at outside Lands.
Speaker 14: With the San Francisco Police Department, and says she has
Speaker 14: been in touch with a detective with the Los Angeles
Speaker 14: Police Department.
Speaker 8: I really hope the police can do some investigating and figure.
Speaker 6: Out, Oh, honey, you not educated onto what LAPD cannon
Speaker 6: can't do.
Speaker 4: You're never seeing your phone again.
Speaker 2: She's about to get an education who.
Speaker 8: Is behind this and prevent these kinds of crimes from happening.
Speaker 14: Grondford reached out to both the SFPD and LAPD and
Speaker 14: are waiting to hear back for more details. Crystal wanted
Speaker 14: to share her story so others can be aware.
Speaker 8: I was stone cold, sober, so.
Speaker 2: Sure you don't believe her?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Was she one of the ones smoking a menthol? It's
Speaker 6: definitely possible camel crush? Do they still make those? Or
Speaker 6: how about the vapo inhaler. You blow it into your
Speaker 6: hands and you cup it so it goes back into
Speaker 6: your eyes.
Speaker 4: That's another thing that the e kids do.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it really, I think because it was.
Speaker 6: Crowded and I haven't done this stuff since twenty twelve,
Speaker 6: so I'm just imagining they still do this.
Speaker 8: Didn't feel my phone leaving my pocket. I think that
Speaker 8: is the tactics these puckers use to target these crowded
Speaker 8: spaces when a lot of people are moving, so they
Speaker 8: can just kind of hide under the radar.
Speaker 3: Gilong Crawn for News.
Speaker 6: So there, let's go a string of phone thrafts. Thefts
Speaker 6: from outside lands. The big music festival at Golden Gate
Speaker 6: Park in San Francisco, and the phones ended up in
Speaker 6: you guessed it, Las Angeles.
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