By Laura Hemmer Santa Monica
(Re: The downtown ficus trees) Chop them down, chop them down now. They are thugs and gangsters. It’s shameful how they hang out on the street day and night. You can’t even go downtown without seeing them everywhere. A lot of them have tattoos The birds sit in their branches just waiting to poop, on the heads of citizens and visitors. It is high time the city cleared out this major blight.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 6, 2007. Read the original PDF.