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Chris Bray's avatar

Be right back, going out to buy a lottery ticket

nymusicdaily's avatar

hey Chris how much for you to fly in and publish a picture of my sidewalk?

subscriber discount?

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Why not a GiveSendGo for Chris to do a US tour taking photos of parks and sidewalks, just before the Feds swoop in.

Gym+Fritz's avatar

Not sure why (I live near DC), but this raid makes me feel real good. . . . You probably deserve some credit.

FuriousIT's avatar

Interesting new act. Something between Nick Shirley and the Mentalist. This could really blow up.

Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Yes! The old youtube before all the gymfluencers, momfluencers, skinfluencers etc wrecked it.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Randy Farnum's avatar

Late night tv could use some fresh talent

https://youtu.be/76wzA2A2T1Q?si=j1VKm7lw6NYskRSt

Silent scorn's avatar

Only one?

Sharon's avatar

😏😁

Frontera Lupita's avatar

😉🤪

Dan's avatar

Your writing on the subject got someone's attention. Way to go.

Chris Bray's avatar

I don't think so -- this was a huge operation with deep preparation, and they had the stash houses marked. This looks like the culmination of months of serious work.

Dan's avatar

Likely not from the post from a few days ago but quite possibly the attention you gave in previous writing.

Randy Farnum's avatar

Still no reason not to jump in the front of the parade 😁

Holly S.'s avatar

Still, your timing is excellent! 😂 Talk about topical!

Donzel W's avatar

Which it appears Mayor Bass was either not privy to.... or just completly ignored. 🙄

JasonT's avatar

She’s really a double agent.

Lydia's avatar
May 7Edited

She is too dumb to be a single agent, let alone double.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

was she interviewed about the raid?

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Stop ✋…. It was your wife, she was concerned for your safety

Pat Robinson's avatar

Please post a column on how Newsome should be arrested.

MLHVM's avatar

And extradited to China.

CaliforniaLost's avatar

Nah, we aren't sending him back to Daddy Xi.

Flier's avatar

I see what you did there!

Korpijarvi's avatar

Kek, you beat me to it.

By three hours!

Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

Great about the raid! It’s so refreshing to hear about law enforcement actually doing their jobs, especially without Astroturf “protesters” getting in the way.

And in the Feds are about to epically troll the MSM: they have officially changed the name of ICE to the “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement”, or NICE. So, now MSM will have to report on what the NICE officers are doing. Every single time. Hilarious.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

That would be awesome, especially so here, the home of "Minnesota Nice," the patented nomenclature for passive aggressive.

Curtis's avatar

As much as I'd love to see ICE get changed to NICE, apparently it hasn't happened yet. Trump reposted "Great idea! Let's do it!" though, so hopefully it happens!

Cindi Good's avatar

I heard that and think it's a perfect change to NICE, because they are nice...just doing their job and I appreciate them so much!

The Ungovernable's avatar

Can you let me know what my wife will be mad about in the future? ☺️

Chris Bray's avatar

d.) all the above

Defective Detective's avatar

I do so love a quick wit...Bravo Sir!

Mitch's avatar

any man knows this. Any stock tips?

Steve's avatar

Chris, you and Nick Shirley are doing great reporting from California. Please continue. It can only help.

Ataraxis's avatar

Check out Peachey Keenan, too. https://xcancel.com/KeenanPeachy

Frank Lee's avatar

So is Bass two faced to appeal to her rabit feminized commie base, or is the LAPD giving her the middle finger? Grab a ticket for me too!

Richard Parker's avatar

It's the middle finger.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Did you mean rabbit feminized commie or rabid feminized commie? Maybe the former is more appropriate. https://www.amazon.com/rabbit-vibrator/s?k=rabbit+vibrator

Frank Lee's avatar

Damn phone keyboard and autocorrect! Rabid, but you have a great point!

Susan's avatar
May 6Edited

I just laughed with happiness when I saw this news. YESSS! What city or state issue should Chris cosmically cover next? Hmmm... L.A. Mayor's race? (debate tonight, 5pm, KNBC4)

Ken Braun's avatar

Can you come to Michigan? If this trick can travel then there's a lot of photos I'd like you to take.

ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

We watched slack jawed, in amazement. We’ve often wondered what could be hidden under these robes, but never imagined for a moment it could be so much! Do you think they’ll be prosecuted?

Suzy Cue's avatar

I noticed they didn’t look worried at all

ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

I agree - absolutely no appearance of shame or embarrassment at all. I suspect they thought there’d be no consequences, and they’re probably right.

Suzy Cue's avatar

Note these people have no shame/morals/conscience. It’s beyond disturbing.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

I hope they get prosecuted. The public needs to be aware , who would have imagined.

Flexman's avatar

It is a minor, tangential point but are the crashed-out zombies essentially safe from being robbed by not-currently-crashed-out zombies because, at the point of the crashout, they no longer have anything worth stealing?

I assume that there is no “honor among thieves” operating.

Has the situation formed a stable equilibrium where the addicts become sentient and alert to danger at an increasing level as they gather more, er, resources to exchange for fentanyl?

Do they reach an apex of capacity around the period where they have enough money to buy a hit through to possessing the hit?

Is there then a near vertical plunge into stationary helplessness as soon as the fentanyl, and therefore the value accrued, is transferred from an asset able to be exchanged between people to a purely individual utility that is now inextricable from the owner?

Does no one even, like, draw on their faces with a Sharpie?

Do they effectively transcend, temporarily, into a literal state of nature where there is as little point in interfering with them as there is in kicking fallen leaves in the same park?

Has L.A. achieved by grass roots experimentation what Zuckerberg hoped to achieve with Occulus and the Metaverse?

An entirely internal state of dreambeing where participants only return to this mortal coil to generate enough credits to return to the Deepdreamland of a world purely formed of one individual’s consciousness with the only external connection being the artificial infrastructure that allows the personal occlusion?

Chris Bray's avatar

The local industry is shoplifting, and the stores around the park resell drug stores items at a discount. There's fighting over the bags of stolen shit. Corner of Wilshire and Alvarado.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/macarthur-park-business-owner-retail-theft-stolen-merchandise/3664556/

Flexman's avatar

That doesn’t sound very Summer of Love.

Lightwing's avatar

I'm watching 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘦 series with Nathan Fillion right now. Real life mimicking art? Or vice versa? Either way — good stuff!

I used to be more progressive about legalizing hard drugs but I never in a million years imagined the sh*tshow we are currently enduring. I had no idea that adult humans in the US were so lame.

Fun laugh (related): https://babylonbee.com/news/turd-on-san-francisco-sidewalk-now-polling-second-in-california-governors-race

Chris Bray's avatar

I'm still inclined to believe that your home is your castle, and you can do what you want there if you can keep it to yourself. But when you can't....

James's avatar

Coming to WA any day now

Christopher Graf's avatar

Arrest count is low 17-25 the last I heard. Is this a show because of the upcoming election?

Chris Bray's avatar

I don't think so. I think the US Attorney, in particular, knows that the problem is real and needs to be addressed. Headed over there now.

Brian DeLeon's avatar

Bring David Blaine with you. Oh wait, you are David Blaine!

Susan's avatar

Check out CA Post coverage too ---- this is a huge, targeted bust. So good!

https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-news/feds-smash-huge-drug-ring-fueling-macarthur-park-fentanyl-trade/

Korpijarvi's avatar

Thanks, Susan.

> narco queen Mallaly Moreno-Lopez and her boyfriend Jackson Tarfur

So um like if they arrest people for Drug Ring Activity...and find out subsequently that they're illegals...do they have to throw them back in the park catch-and-release style coz of the signs?

Susan's avatar

Ha ha, I'm sensing irony, so I get it, but Nooooo, NO WAY. The Feds are serious and will get convictions because they undoubtedly have them dead to rights, and the prisons they will be going to are serious too. They gathered up so many kingpins it will undoubtedly have an effect on the area. (knock wood)

Korpijarvi's avatar

Irony, sarcasm, Weltschmerz, and battle humor, ma'am. :^>

JBS's avatar

Snake Plissken for Mayor. He’ll lead you out of the mess

Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Hate to be picky, but people smoke a lot of different drugs with foil. It’s “chasing the dragon” and results in quick absorption I found a list:

Heroin

Cocaine (including crack)

Meth

Benzodiazepines

Marijuana

DMT

Opioid painkillers

Prescription stimulants (Ritalin and Adderall among them)

So Karen Bass can deny there’s a fentanyl problem!

Eamonn McKeown's avatar

Just read this on the Gateway Pundit. The Sinaloa State Governor has also been indicted prior to this. Todd Blanche is a pretty busy man lately.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Hahahaha your wife loves you… she called the Feds to protect you on your afternoon walks. 💞