Lawyer files $5 million claim, saying L.A. City Hall rat problem caused her illness

[rangerrebew]

 Lawyer files $5 million claim, saying L.A. City Hall rat problem caused her illness

    By David Zahniser Los Angeles Times (TNS) 21 hrs ago
 

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles city attorney who says a City Hall rat infestation caused her to contract flea-borne typhus has filed a $5 million legal claim, saying Mayor Eric Garcetti and other elected officials allowed trash outside her office to become a threat to public health.

Deputy City Attorney Elizabeth Greenwood said in her claim that Garcetti, City Attorney Mike Feuer and the City Council allowed garbage and human feces to accumulate on the streets outside City Hall East, “recklessly endangering the public” by allowing rats and fleas to thrive.

Greenwood worked at City Hall East until October, when she went out on sick leave. She was diagnosed in November with typhus, a flea-borne illness that can spread when fleas bite rats and later pass the bacteria on to humans. Its symptoms include a rash, fever and fatigue.

https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/lawyer-files-million-claim-saying-l-a-city-hall-rat/article_d0b2d092-e793-5a08-af36-9791b67761df.html

[rangerrebew]

At first I thought she might be talking about the people of Hollyweird.

[SZonian]

Well, let's put this whole thing together...what this article fails to mention is;

The trash and feces is there because the homeless are leaving it there.  It's not just somehow "magically" appearing and then attracting rats.
The city had an "arrangement" where the homeless could stay from 6pm to 6am.  Then, city crews (at taxpayer expense) would come in and hose the sidewalks and street down before business hours.  Now the homeless refuse to move and the chickenshit city refuse to do anything.

I hope this woman wins, but again, it's at the taxpayer's expense, not the bleep city council members.

[rangerrebew]

Are you suggesting it's poop chasing attorneys such as she that are creating the problem?

[mountaineer]

Actual rodent disease-carrying rats with long tails and whiskers, or members of the political party whose name happens to end in "rats"? 

[austingirl]

The conventional wisdom is that California leads the way and the rest of the country eventually catches up with their trendy trends. The 2020 candidates from California should be asked about the pestilence in their state.

[goatprairie]

Oh boy, with that headline, the jokes just write themselves.