DWP is afraid, very afraid.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the LADWP received threats because of the bird balls in Ivanhoe.

Two days after I blogged about the Corner o’ Rocks (TM) in slk that I thought was a graveyard, a guard started to park his car RIGHT there. For the first time. I had been running there for almost a year, and there had never been a guard there before; they are always at the guardhouse, or on the median, right between the 2 reservoirs. A couple times one of the guards would race along the inside road (you can see just the edge of it in the center of the photo) to get there just as I did. (And I think paranoia is just another way of saying, nothing left to lose. The dwp has already made the situation grave.)

Corner o’ Rocks (TM). The DWP interprets Stonehenge.

As you remember, on June 9, the dwp let it rip, and tried to make a funny game out of dumping literally tons of possibly toxic black bird balls into Ivanhoe. Our jolly Councilman, cb, who never lets a photo op go by without sticking his head in it, also made some jokes, and I slapped the Times on the knuckles for sucking up to the dwp without ONE question or ANY investigative reporting of their own! Talk about naive!

There was a lot of press about the balls, (and many repetitive jokes about the black balls.) Two nights after that I was running along the path that circles slk, around 2 AM. (Don’t ask.) You can see the beginning of the dirt path in the photo; a tall wire fence and barbed wire separates the public from the reservoir. There was no other person on the street for my whole run (as usual). Perhaps 5 cars passed me in that 45 minutes.

All of a sudden one of those police type headlights on the top of trucks that circle around and look down dark alleys was fixated on me. Not from inside the reservoir, but from the street, right alongside me. From a DWP marked truck. And not just one truck. Another truck followed the first one and also lit me up with their spotlight. They drove very slowly past me as I ran, huffing and puffing in my uncomfortable way. As soon as they were past me, they turned the corner, the lights went off, and they drove up to the guard shed on the other side of the lake.

When I staggered to the corner, I called to the guard inside the gate( parked at Corner o’ Rocks (TM), of course). I asked him if he had ever seen the DWP do that before. He said, No.

Then, last week, I saw a huge searchlight had been installed in Ivanhoe. It caught the water at an angle (the section not filled with decaying plastic balls- YET) , as if it was the moon shining across it, or as if it was a huge swimming pool. It was on the whole time I ran. (I wonder how many watts that uses up?)

The next time: The police came up to me as I ran. There was no one else on the street. They shined the car spotlight on me and kept it there for 5 minutes. But what could they arrest me for, not getting my target heartrate up?

What’s next? Catapulting those rocks over the fence at me? Kind of ironic that the dwp is threatening the safety of our water, and yet wants to deflect the attention to possible evil OUTSIDE the gates. But I certainly don’t want to imply that an organization as plodding and antiquated as the dwp could have intended such a sophisticated device as irony, so my apologies for that part.