First Person
By George Garrigues
I was certainly impressed a few weeks ago when I e-mailed the Bureau of Street Services with a complaint.
I had noticed that some damned idiots had posted big advertising signs
really high on the power poles on Overland near National Place touting
some kind of get-rich-quick scheme.
I poked around the Internet and came across a page where I could file a complaint and ask that the signs be taken down.
It's at www.lacity.org/BOSS/request.htm .
I filed the complaint on a Friday, and they e-mailed me a Service Request Number and a phone number I could call for more info. Early the next week the city had sent a truck and crew to pull down the offending placards.
A few days later I got a personal phone call from the bureau asking if the problem had been solved. Yes, and very nicely, too.
I found there is a national organization working against this "street spam," as it's called. Go to www.causs.org/index.html for more info.
(This article was published first in the Palms Village Sun. George Garrigues is the publisher and editor of The Palms Village Sun. Read more of the Sun at: www.palmsvillagesun.info .) ◘
CityWatch
Vol 6 Issue 66
Pub: August 15, 2008
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