Dumb twerking teens caught on video vandalizing business. Dumber still? Gang symbols carved into cars lead to arrest.



Twerking teenagers were caught on surveillance video recently vandalizing a Los Angeles-area business called Pink Sponge Home Cleaning, KTLA-TV reported.

What are the details?

The station said vandals broke into the Glendora business in the early morning hours of April 20. Surveillance video from the Pink Sponge's rooftop parking lot showed at least three teens carrying out vandalism, including blasting a fire extinguisher and chucking a large object at one of the company’s 25 pink Volkswagen Bugs, KTLA said.

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Of course, two of the vandals also were infamously caught twerking atop the hood of one of the cars.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

“They kicked in every headlight they could,” Jennifer Ahlgrim of Pink Sponge told KTLA. “They pulled down the windows so hard, they broke the regulators. They carved on the hoods of cars.”

Image source: YouTube screenshot

“They tore open a door and threw products over the side of the building," Ahlgrim added to the station. "It was disgusting."

Dumb and dumber

You'd think that today's teens would be savvy enough to know that just about every business is outfitted with surveillance cameras, but the dumb teens either didn't know or didn't care.

Dumber still is that police told KTLA gang symbols were carved upon some of the Pink Sponge company cars, and that led them to a juvenile suspect — a 15-year-old gang member from La Verne who was arrested in connection with the break-in.

Authorities added to the station that they have the suspect's cell phone and are hoping to use it to find the two teen girls who were involved in the break-in.

Meanwhile, the outfit is picking up the pieces after 18 of its vehicles were heavily vandalized to the tune of $25,000 in damages, the station said.

“I couldn’t understand how someone could do something like this to a company that’s trying to do good,” Ahlgrim added to KTLA. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

The co-founder of the company added to the station that the insurance claim was denied because the company had been vandalized previously.

A GoFundMe has been organized to help the business with the cost of repairs and the loss of many of its supplies, KTLA noted.

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'Our city is in peril': Portland business owner closes store — and posts scathing note on front door blasting criminals, authorities who fail to punish them



A Portland, Oregon, business owner permanently closed her store this week — and posted a scathing note on the front door blasting criminals as well as authorities who fail to punish them.

What are the details?

“Our city is in peril,” the note on the door of Rains PDX read. “Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins … we have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.”

\u201cThe owner at Rains tells me after five break-ins in about three weeks, she made the sudden decision to permanently close. Staff here are putting pressure on the city to look after small businesses dealing with ongoing challenges with crime.\u201d
— Megan Allison (@Megan Allison) 1669494749

Rains PDX owner Marcy Landolfo told KATU-TV that this week marked the 15th break-in at her business in a year and a half.

"It’s just too much with the losses that are not covered by insurance, the damages, everything," Landolfo added to the station. "It’s just not sustainable."

She also told KATU that she's covered the cost out of pocket for most of the necessary repairs following break-ins — and that after others, she simply left windows boarded up.

"The products that are being targeted are the very expensive winter products, and I just felt like the minute I get those in the store, they’re going to get stolen," Landolfo explained to the station.

Landolfo also told KATU she's concerned about her employees' safety and doesn't see her physical store as a feasible business model anymore.

"The problem is, as small businesses, we cannot sustain those types of losses and stay in business," she added to the station. "I won’t even go into the numbers of how much has been out of pocket."

KATU said it reached out to Mayor Ted Wheeler's office when Rains PDX was broken into in late October.

While the mayor's team said work is being done to increase funding for business repair grants through Prosper Portland, Landolfo told the station that isn't sufficient action.

"Paying for glass — that’s great, but that is so surface and does nothing for the root cause of the problem, so it’s never going to change," she added to KATU.

Just two weeks ago, KPTV-TV reported on Portland's rampant property crime and its impact on businesses:

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Texas rancher says illegal immigrants have caused $60,000 in property damages on his land: 'We don't have the same rights as other people do'



A Texas rancher says he has sustained $60,000 in property damages because of the ongoing "invasion" of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border.

Brent Smith, a rancher and attorney from Kinney County, told Fox News on Monday that ranchers in the area where he lives have been forced to hire private security "to defend their own property rights."

"Us Americans, in this part of Texas, we don't have the same rights as other people do," Smith said. "We can't enjoy our property and go in our backyards anymore at night. It's a tragedy."

He harshly criticized President Joe Biden for neglecting to enforce immigration law by permitting migrants who cross the border illegally to be released from detention and enter the U.S.

Since assuming office, Biden has prioritized dismantling the immigration and border security policies of his predecessor President Donald Trump. Biden reinstated "catch and release" policies that ended under Trump, and he also cancelled construction of a wall on the southern border and overturned the Trump administration's remain-in-Mexico policy requiring migrants to wait for their asylum cases to be processed before entering the U.S.

Because of Biden's policies, immigration enforcement agencies have reported record numbers of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the southern border. This fiscal year there have been more than 1.1 million migrants encountered by Border Patrol agents.

These migrants are trespassing on land owned by American ranchers to avoid detection by immigration and border enforcement, and Smith said that criminal activity on the border has left many Americans in border communities feeling unsafe, even during the day.

"If you don't have a gun with you, you're taking a chance," he said of ranchers walking on their own property. "And it's sad that that's the reality we live in today."

He added that criminal drug cartels "are in absolute control of both sides of the border right now."

According to Smith, no one is compensating the ranchers for damages inflicted on their property.

"If it's a stolen vehicle that goes through the property their vehicle insurance isn't going to pay for it and ours won't either so the landowners are stuck with paying for this," Smith said.

He explained that ranchers are also liable to cover the costs when livestock escape from damaged fences and cause accidents on the road.

Some in Congress are working to correct the injustice. Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) on July 30 introduced bipartisan legislation in the House of Representatives that would reimburse farmers and ranchers for costs incurred by vandalism of their property from the illegal immigration surge.

Pfluger's bill would redistribute $300 million in unspent COVID-19 rescue funds to pay farmers and ranchers for damages on their property related to migrant activity.

Farmers and ranchers near the border are enduring livestock loss, crop loss, and damage to fences, physical structu… https://t.co/COTmk3J0Ns

— Rep. August Pfluger (@RepPfluger) 1627870641.0

"Farmers and ranchers near the border are enduring livestock loss, crop loss, and damage to fences, physical structures, and more at the hands of trespassing coyotes and illegal migrants," Pfluger said on social media. "My bill, the #RAPIDAct, would reimburse farmers for these damages.

Looting, vandalism from 2020 riots estimated to break insurance claim records



The looting and destruction of property linked to riots following the death of George Floyd are estimated to be the "most expensive in insurance history," according to an exclusive report from Axios.

What are the details?

Axios reported that according to data from a firm called Property Claim Services, "The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King."

Damage from the LA riots following the acquittal of the officers seen on video beating King cost insurers $775 million, which comes in at $1.42 billion when adjusted to 2020 dollars.

But the claims keep rolling in for property damage linked to civil unrest following the death of Floyd in late May, as riots in several U.S. cities continue months later — meaning even the high $2 billion estimate could be eclipsed.

Loretta Worters of the Insurance Information Institute explained to the outlet, "It's not just happening in one city or state — it's all over the country. And this is still happening, so the losses could be significantly more."

The Daily Wire noted:

The Floyd riots are also notable because the destruction is ongoing in places like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, and new riots and incidents of looting crop up in cities weekly, as new police-involved shooting incidents come to light. The $2 billion likely does not include damage in Rochester, New York, or Lancaster, Pennsylvania, both of which played host, last weekend, to demonstrations that eventually turned violent. And it definitely does not include anticipated unrest following the November presidential election.

Other costly periods of civil unrest in America "include the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1965, the 1967 Detroit riot, and the New York City blackout of 1977," Fox News reported.

Those events racked up losses totaling $357 million, $322 million, and $118 million respectively, in 2020 dollars.

Property Claim Services classifies events that result in more than $25 million in losses to be a "catastrophe."

Anything else?

The Daily Mail pointed out that property damage claims due to civil unrest typically "pale in comparison to those related to natural disasters."

The outlet reported, "Insurance companies paid out a total of $219billion worldwide for natural disasters in 2017 and 2018, according to Swiss Re," adding that "in California alone, insurance companies paid out $20 billion in claims during those two years after wildfires devastated the state."

BLM riot damages 'worst in history' totalling over $2 BILLION

The Insurance Information Institute has compiled some pretty shocking data. According to them, property damage claims due to the riots this summer have now probably surpassed $2 billion, making them the costliest riots in US history.

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