64 Worst Bloodmatch: Cost of Owning a Home vs. Slow 911 Response Time
Posted By David Markland On May 13, 2008 @ 11:40 am In 64 Worst | Comments Disabled
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The “winner” of this brawl will go up against the “winner” of yesterday’s bloodmatch to determine the absolutely worst thing about Los Angeles- still time to vote [2] on both.
There’s nothing worse than calling 911 and being put on hold or disconnected, except, of course, being told help is on the way and then it never showing up. Whether its due to a poorly relayed address, overwhelmed emergency services, or sheer imcompetency, somehow I think we’d be safer if we were told flat out “help won’t be coming for you” so we could spend time handling [3] the [4] emergency [5] ourselves [6].
I’m surprised the Cost of Owning a Home has come this far in the 64 Worst polling, considering that a) home prices dropped an outstanding 9.6% between February and March of this year, b) home prices dropped a stunning 25.6% between March 2007 and March 2008, and c) the reason the numbers remain so impossibly high is due to the arrogance of the public who kept buying inflated prices based on ill conceived notions that there could possibly be no real estate bubble. Seriously, people, did you learn nothing from the dot com bust? Or are you too busy still buying stake in Google [7] to be paying attention? [data: California Association of Realtors [8]]
Which is worse about Los Angeles:
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…poll closes Thursday evening…
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[1] Image: http://la.metblogs.com/category/64-worst/
[2] still time to vote: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/05/12/64-worst-bloodmatch-gang-violence-vs-lausd/
[3] handling: http://www.worstcasescenarios.com/
[4] the: http://www.awrm.org/
[5] emergency: http://www.losangelesbodyguards.com/
[6] ourselves: http://home.howstuffworks.com/panic-room.htm
[7] buying stake in Google: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=Goog
[8] California Association of Realtors: http://www.car.org/index.php?id=Mzg0MzE=
[9] Will Sam Zell be increasing the cost of newspaper home delivery?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/01/26/will-sam-zell-be-increasing-the-cost-of-newspaper-home-delivery/
[10] Spotted in Reseda: Please Go Slow: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/03/25/spotted-in-reseda-please-go-slow/
[11] LAPD Response Time Open Thread: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/09/28/lapd-response-time-open-thread/
[12] Ralph’s Food Cheap!(er): http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/26/ralphs-food-cheaper/
[13] Get Drunk and Go Home With a Stranger: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/10/20/get-drunk-and-go-home-with-a-stranger/
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