Despicable: City of L.A. Fines Businesses for Hanging "Open for Business" Signs

Despicable: City of L.A. Fines Businesses for Hanging "Open for Business" Signs

Here is a list of things you can currently do in the city of Los Angeles with impunity:

• defy pandemic stay-at-home orders to protest in crowded streets by the tens of thousands
• throw Molotov cocktails at police
• break the windows of both private and public property
• burn down neighborhood businesses
• tear down monuments on public property
• drag innocent commuters from their cars, beat them mercilessly, and destroy their vehicles
• poop in public streets
• openly use illegal drugs on public streets
• steal cars or bicycles
• erect tent cities on private property
• steal up to $950 of merchandise per day without fear of prosecution…under state law

It’s a great time to be a criminal in the City of Angels, but if you’re a business owner, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti will find you and make sure you are fined and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for…

Are you ready for this?

Hanging a “We are open” sign in front of your business.

NBC4 in Los Angeles is reporting that an increasing number of businesses have received hefty citations and fines from the City of Los Angeles for supposedly violating permit laws by hanging banners on their businesses to help customers see that they are open through the pandemic.

Above the entrance of the Crave Cafe in Studio City–where business is down 70% during the pandemic–the owner last month hung a banner that says “OPEN FOR TAKE-OUT AND DELIVERY.”

“It really was important because it helped us in communicating to the community that we were still open, and many of them don’t know that,” said Rana Shalhoub, Crave Cafe’s owner.

But Shalhoub found a notice in her mail this week from LA’s Department of Building and Safety, ordering her to take down the banner and fining her $356. She promptly removed the banner...Read all.