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  • LADWP,  Silver Lake

    The Times makes a joke about bird ball pollution in Silver Lake.*

    Now the LA Times is FINALLY noticing what I’ve been talking about for months: the bird balls are coming, the bird balls are coming…and have arrived. They have pictures up there. Photo from LA Times blog. I would write to them to get permission, but every time I do that, no one answers. The writer compares it to Chuck E. Cheese balls. That’s funny, isn’t it? She also writes that Silver Lake residents will complain because the balls look ugly. Wow! Edgy! The LA Times really knows how to blog now! Or not. *Updated: The Times hasn’t “gotten around” to publishing my comment there yet, so because I think it’s…

  • LADWP,  Silver Lake

    HDPE plastic bird balls pollute Ivanhoe. Party on.

    I see that LA Curbed talks about the bird balls soon to be thrown in Ivanhoe Reservoir. Finally! I am not alone! White bags filled with black bird balls of doom on the north end of Silver Lake. The title there is punnish (which I hate), but they always have good comments at LA Curbed. I photographed those bags a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t know they held the evil balls themselves. The writer also quoted the DWP as saying there’s going to be a party as they throw them in to pollute the lake and the environment. Don’t wanna miss that. Plus: (Officials didn’t find the same levels…

  • LADWP,  Silver Lake

    DWP dumps 6 million plastic balls in Silver Lake drinking water.

    Notice to Strangers coming from Google: Google STOLE this image from me. You are not original – about 20 people a day come to get this image. If you link directly to it, I will know, and will hunt you down and contact your server for theft. I’m just sayin.’ I knew they had threatened to do this, but I didn’t realize they had started until I read this in the Los Feliz Ledger: Ivanhoe Reservoir is beginning to resemble a Chuck E Cheese ball pit as Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power officials have begun placing plastic “bird balls” in 100,000 ball increments on the reservoir’s surface to…