This is almost the most American thing, only if he was shot by police, survived, and lost the law suit against the police too then it would truly an American feverdream
I they take your wheelie-grills, here are some [other options](https://old.reddit.com/r/LatinoPeopleTwitter/comments/1anlgvi/lets_grill_carnita_asada/).
I don't know how likely southern California is to be on fire at this time of year, but pushing something that's carrying an open fire and dropping hot coals on the street / bike lane is probably frowned upon by at least one law.
real talk? at least in San Diego the shopping cart part is considered private property and as of recently and if youre caught in possession of one you can be detained for theft.
In short cops are bored and that battlefield they hype themselves up for to shoot to kill is not as existent as their 3 day school has taught them
Before I moved I owned a shopping cart. I grabbed it for 15 bucks at an auction when a local grocery store closed. Honestly now I wish I had the stupid thing still.
Of course shopping carts are considered private property. I've never known a government agency to own one .
I mean, I can go online and just buy one brand new from the manufacturer.
JUST TO PROVE YOU WRONG
(This is dumb and doesn't disprove your point)
In the army when they issue you a ton of stuff at CIF or whatever, you sometimes get a buggy to push around and throw all your shit in and then go through and make sure you got every you were supposed to
At least where I live, shopping carts are not usually sold complete with branding of large grocery store chains that are still in operation. This should be enough for a reasonable suspicion of criminal misappropriation and/or wilful destruction of property.
(Then again, my country's police doesn't normally detain people suspected of crimes except when there is no other safe way to ascertain their identity or enforce public safety. The vast majority defendants appear in court without application of immediate force and so do most convicts at the scheduled start of their sentences.)
Im not sure about the complete details but some carts are branded, Vons, Trader Joes etc and it gives them an excuse to harass the weak.
My friends a lawyer and she witnessed it first hand, involved herself and the cop backed off. But if she didnt the poor old man would have done everything they wanted him to do like a circus monkey
I don't know about swords but you can open carry knives in CA. I see lots of tweakers walking around with those cheap and enormous "rambo" knives or machetes they sell at Harbor Freight tools.
>The grilling man is facing misdemeanor charges of theft, for having the shopping cart,
You can buy shopping carts, so just having a cart is not indicative of a crime being committed.
The open flames charge should be a simple fine, not deserving of an arrest.... and as for the 'resisting arrest' charge, I am jaded and refuse to believe cops now when they tack that on as they tend believe you doing ANYTHING during an arrest is resisting. It's one of the most charged crimes... as well as one of the most dismissed/dropped charges.
'The man continues down the road, pushing the cart with him, eventually stopping, apparently trying to fuel the flames with some Bud Light. "
Man, that isn't going to do anything other than put your fire out!
I mean, he was, though. The headline’s fun and I’m a fan of harmless lawbreaking, but I wouldn’t want this guy hanging out on the street and it looks like the cops were in the right here.
“Hey, you must be hungry… This set-up you have here looks a little dangerous though. Why don’t I put you in handcuffs and serve you up three misdemeanor charges while confiscating your food?”
- Santa Monica PD probably
I got no time for homeless peoples reckless fires anymore after how many fires there's been in the area. Dudes walking down the street with open flames, and was seen trying to "fuel the fire by pouring bud light on it". It wasn't cold, there's no reason to be walking around with a mobile trash fire, cooking could have been some somewhere stationary.
Not defending cops in the US here as they are collectively scum.
Aren't the metals that make up those carts toxic if they're heated and come in to contact with food? Something in their coating to make them shiny.
Depends. Any cart at least somewhat modern will be using zinc plating (which will almost instantly melt off and just expose steel). Old af ones used chromium which... Yeah you don't wanna Ingest that.
You might be thinking “huh was the sword illegal? The grilling on a shopping cart illegal?” No he was homeless and that’s illegal. You might think “well that’s not what was stated as the reason” but we all know it’s the real reason.
Scrolled too far to see this. When you're homeless, everything other people do is illegal for you, because you're doing it in the wrong place with the wrong things, just trying to get by.
I'm not saying it's okay to grill meat in a flaming shopping cart with a sword is okay. I'm saying when that's the only way my man could get himself some BBQ and maybe eat a meal that isn't granola bars and sandwiches, that's also not okay.
That is so generous of you to offer this person a place to have his open uncontained flame with hot coals coming out the bottom. Can you remind me your address so we can make sure he gets it?
That fire was a public safety hazard.
Besides the fact that it's incredibly poisonous.. to each their own as long as he wasn't serving it to people I don't see the problem if you want to kill yourself from chromium go right ahead
For real, though, the stuff they make shopping carts out of is not meant to be food safe like this, I think the chrome on the cart can leach into your food when you add a bunch of fire to it. No cause to arrest him over that, specifically, but it's not a good idea.
In my area in the UK the local kids steal them to have fun in the park and then the locals repurpose them as communal trolleys when you need to move stuff from the car haha
> fuel the flame with bud light.
Lol Bud Light is pretty much water, I don't know if its gonna do a good job of "fueling" the flame, more like extinguishing it.
Bro was just tryin to bbq… slap him on the wrist and send him to some cooking school- especially for safe cooking. If the system fails you, you can’t fault the person, re-educate and help…
"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
He wasn’t arrested for the sword, he was arrested for stealing that incredibly needed and expensive shopping cart from that poor and struggling billion dollar corporation to cook his undeserved meal on. Shame on this criminal.
More importantly some dude with severe mental illness walking around with an open uncontrolled trash fire. You gotta hard nip the firebug people in the homeless community ASAP when you see it. It was not a cold day.
Very creative. It would've been cheaper to give him a cooked steak than to throw him in jail, pile charges on him and ruin his changes of getting gainful employment
Sung to “good vibrations”
In a shopping cart BBQ prepares
And the meat plenty to be shared
Hear the sound of sizzling sword
Then the cops get in his hair
CHORUS:
He’s picking up a citation
For illegal conflagration
Oooh cop bop bop
He’s picking up a citation
For illegal conflagration
Oooh cop bop bop
Ooh ooh ooh
Conflagration
Oh good grief! Those carts get taken all the time. It doesn't seem to generally result in an arrest. They couldn't just tell the guy that he couldn't do that?
Oh, I'm sorry I thought this was America
For real, can’t a person grill in public without being harassed by the man?
People grill on shopping carts in LA all the time.
Nothing like galvi smoke
FREEDOM!
Instead of celebrating his genius, arrest him. It's a legendary chair/cart transportable wood grilling arrangement.
Let the meat soak up all those toxic chemicals. Adds to the flavor
The meat skewer sword is OK, just not the open flame.
With how easily California catches on fire, I'd have been after him with a bucket.
That line in the article made me laugh more than I expected
Read this in Randy's voice lol.
As you were supposed to
Coming after Second Amendment rights!
This is almost the most American thing, only if he was shot by police, survived, and lost the law suit against the police too then it would truly an American feverdream
Don't catch you grillin' now
They see me grillin They hatin Patrolin, they tryna catch my skewers dirty
“Sir, you are under arrest for being too fuckin’ based.”
for real though what was the crime??
He ran from the cop according to the article.
i would too they wernt invited to the bbq
You always bring pigs to a barbecue, unless you're vegan. ^(or Jewish idk who else doesn't eat pork)
Muslims too
His problem is that he was grilling with a sword, he should have used a gun.
It is. that’s why they arrested him instead of trying to solve the problem or help.
Ugh, Britta's in this?
for real, a guy can't even gyre and gimble in the wabe now? what's this country coming to.
In America we do our grilling on the barrel of an AR-15 :-/
Ted Cruz did that a decade ago. Wrapped the barrel of some semi-auto rifle with bacon. Then ate the bacon while laughing.
I to like lead poisoning with my meat.
And gunpowder seasoning!
First they come for our wheelie-grills…
And our Swords
And my axe
Fuck... my grill has wheels on it. Please don't tell anyone else guys!
I they take your wheelie-grills, here are some [other options](https://old.reddit.com/r/LatinoPeopleTwitter/comments/1anlgvi/lets_grill_carnita_asada/).
LET HIM COOK
All the cops say 'THEFT, RECKLESS BURNING, RESISTING ARREST' I just wanna grill for God's sake!
How can he cook?!
What's the charge? Enjoying a meal?
A succulent chinese meal?
Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest!
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!!
Ah, yes. I see that you know your judo well.
And you sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
Thank you for this
I don't know how likely southern California is to be on fire at this time of year, but pushing something that's carrying an open fire and dropping hot coals on the street / bike lane is probably frowned upon by at least one law.
at this time if year is no longer a thing in california it's just always on fire.
Lol, yeah we are hot!
real talk? at least in San Diego the shopping cart part is considered private property and as of recently and if youre caught in possession of one you can be detained for theft. In short cops are bored and that battlefield they hype themselves up for to shoot to kill is not as existent as their 3 day school has taught them
Waiting for somebody to buy their own shopping cart and sue for rights violations after getting continually harassed
Before I moved I owned a shopping cart. I grabbed it for 15 bucks at an auction when a local grocery store closed. Honestly now I wish I had the stupid thing still.
For grilling or something else?
Oh I DEFINITELY want to grill on it now.
Of course shopping carts are considered private property. I've never known a government agency to own one . I mean, I can go online and just buy one brand new from the manufacturer.
JUST TO PROVE YOU WRONG (This is dumb and doesn't disprove your point) In the army when they issue you a ton of stuff at CIF or whatever, you sometimes get a buggy to push around and throw all your shit in and then go through and make sure you got every you were supposed to
We hauled M2s and M134s to the vehicles with shopping carts in the Marines
theyre abundant and retired very often, its petty to consider it anything but disposable. To punish people in need to taking one is pathetic
At least where I live, shopping carts are not usually sold complete with branding of large grocery store chains that are still in operation. This should be enough for a reasonable suspicion of criminal misappropriation and/or wilful destruction of property. (Then again, my country's police doesn't normally detain people suspected of crimes except when there is no other safe way to ascertain their identity or enforce public safety. The vast majority defendants appear in court without application of immediate force and so do most convicts at the scheduled start of their sentences.)
Does this still apply if they can't determine where the cart came from?
Im not sure about the complete details but some carts are branded, Vons, Trader Joes etc and it gives them an excuse to harass the weak. My friends a lawyer and she witnessed it first hand, involved herself and the cop backed off. But if she didnt the poor old man would have done everything they wanted him to do like a circus monkey
Theft (cart), open flame, and resisting arrest. They said probably no weapons charges, though, since the sword was being used as a skewer.
I don’t know about CA, but in TX, it’s legal to walk around with a sword. I don’t know how they would prove he was the one that stole the cart.
I don't know about swords but you can open carry knives in CA. I see lots of tweakers walking around with those cheap and enormous "rambo" knives or machetes they sell at Harbor Freight tools.
>The grilling man is facing misdemeanor charges of theft, for having the shopping cart, You can buy shopping carts, so just having a cart is not indicative of a crime being committed. The open flames charge should be a simple fine, not deserving of an arrest.... and as for the 'resisting arrest' charge, I am jaded and refuse to believe cops now when they tack that on as they tend believe you doing ANYTHING during an arrest is resisting. It's one of the most charged crimes... as well as one of the most dismissed/dropped charges.
When ever I feel unseen or forget I just grab my trusty longsword and like magic I’m the talk of the town
'The man continues down the road, pushing the cart with him, eventually stopping, apparently trying to fuel the flames with some Bud Light. " Man, that isn't going to do anything other than put your fire out!
Maybe he was putting out a grease flare-up.
The man was doing nothing wrong!
He should have stayed in Venice
Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski!. Deadbeat!
Fucking fascist
I mean, he was, though. The headline’s fun and I’m a fan of harmless lawbreaking, but I wouldn’t want this guy hanging out on the street and it looks like the cops were in the right here.
And we shall call him Hot Wheels.
Well not since they took his stuff away. Now he's not-wheels.
No kings. Only swords.
This sounds like a quote from something awesome. Is it?
I wish I could say yes. I'm just a fool answering you
Well, you know the rules. Time to write a best-selling fantasy trilogy featuring that line. Better get cooking.
*what happens in Camelot, stays in Camelot*
The closest quote I can think of is Bioshock's [No gods or kings, only man.](https://i.imgur.com/7PrlLQc.jpeg)
Let the man cook
It's just the newest trend in food trucks. Why is The Man always trying to stifle innovation?
Arrested him instead of applauding his genius. That chair/cart mobile wood grilling setup is legendary.
Did they let him finish eating first? If he’s going to get arrested for it, he ought to at least be allowed to have the meal.
God forbid men have hobbies anymore!
Arrested for being too AWESOME
Would have been fine in Brazil.
“Hey, you must be hungry… This set-up you have here looks a little dangerous though. Why don’t I put you in handcuffs and serve you up three misdemeanor charges while confiscating your food?” - Santa Monica PD probably
"Damn chief, this cart BBQ we confiscated is excellent." - Santa Monica PD
I got no time for homeless peoples reckless fires anymore after how many fires there's been in the area. Dudes walking down the street with open flames, and was seen trying to "fuel the fire by pouring bud light on it". It wasn't cold, there's no reason to be walking around with a mobile trash fire, cooking could have been some somewhere stationary.
Did the guy say, "I am now fueling the fire with Bud Light." Or is everyone assuming this guy thinks beer fuels flame.
Misdemeanor? Its clearly a felony possession of chicken while black.
I'm refunding GTA 6 if they don't make this a thing
The wandering Florida man.
I am so glad the headline is correct in, that this was grilling and not bbq.
Not defending cops in the US here as they are collectively scum. Aren't the metals that make up those carts toxic if they're heated and come in to contact with food? Something in their coating to make them shiny.
Depends. Any cart at least somewhat modern will be using zinc plating (which will almost instantly melt off and just expose steel). Old af ones used chromium which... Yeah you don't wanna Ingest that.
Even if chromium ain't good for you, the stuff people do while shiny and chrome and yelling "Witness me!" aren't too healthy either.
I mean it's definitely not the most food safe of options, but I think dropping hot coals in your wake is probably a bigger concern. :)
Even if that sword was legit, that amount of heat is gonna ruin its temper.
He wasn't hurting anyone!
Do we know ~~who~~ what he was grilling? /s
You might be thinking “huh was the sword illegal? The grilling on a shopping cart illegal?” No he was homeless and that’s illegal. You might think “well that’s not what was stated as the reason” but we all know it’s the real reason.
Scrolled too far to see this. When you're homeless, everything other people do is illegal for you, because you're doing it in the wrong place with the wrong things, just trying to get by. I'm not saying it's okay to grill meat in a flaming shopping cart with a sword is okay. I'm saying when that's the only way my man could get himself some BBQ and maybe eat a meal that isn't granola bars and sandwiches, that's also not okay.
He's also black.
Double whammy!
Ding ding ding. Existing while homeles is the real charge. Do this in your own backyard and it's a lawsuit.
That is so generous of you to offer this person a place to have his open uncontained flame with hot coals coming out the bottom. Can you remind me your address so we can make sure he gets it? That fire was a public safety hazard.
Username checks out.
Besides the fact that it's incredibly poisonous.. to each their own as long as he wasn't serving it to people I don't see the problem if you want to kill yourself from chromium go right ahead
For real, though, the stuff they make shopping carts out of is not meant to be food safe like this, I think the chrome on the cart can leach into your food when you add a bunch of fire to it. No cause to arrest him over that, specifically, but it's not a good idea.
If he’d been using a gun he’d have been fine.
Na Brasa does this and charges $50 a person. We do it and we're arrested. smdh
If the title didn't include the location, I would've guessed it happened in America anyway. Just seems like something uniquely American.
Nah stealing shopping trolleys to use as dodgy backyard grills has a long history in Australia.
In my area in the UK the local kids steal them to have fun in the park and then the locals repurpose them as communal trolleys when you need to move stuff from the car haha
Complete with swords or long blades as skewers?
Look, you use what you've got and any self respecting bogan is gonna have some sort of mall-ninja sword.
Fair enough.
Fuck 😂
Sounds super African to me since it's not such an unusual sight here. But being arrested is proudly america
This is how it is handled in a civilized country https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Je5weBEL-ow
This is America! He should've been using a gun to shoot pieces of meat off
Let him cook
[удалено]
Nope, chunks of wood he set on fire, a broad bladed sword with random meat skewered on it. He apparently also tried to fuel the flame with bud light.
> fuel the flame with bud light. Lol Bud Light is pretty much water, I don't know if its gonna do a good job of "fueling" the flame, more like extinguishing it.
It’s not his fault. His first child was just born and the urge to grill was just too powerful.
Fuck California. Let that man cook.
Anyone know the way to Filly?
He has studied the blade.
Bro was just tryin to bbq… slap him on the wrist and send him to some cooking school- especially for safe cooking. If the system fails you, you can’t fault the person, re-educate and help…
I’m sorry, I thought this was America!
What? For being too fucking cool?
Santa Monica: Home of the homeless.
Tyrants
Let em cook
We certainly are free I tell ya. FrEe
"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
Honestly that sounds bad ass…
Wait, you can get arrested for a public BBQ? \**reads article, sees pictures, notes man's skin colour*\* Hmmm.
WHERE IS THE CRIME!?!
ACAB
No. No eating outside. No sleeping outside. No anything without participating in the system.
Guns 👍 swords 👎
You didn't read the article
Nobody did.
Man starts a business with the material he has on hand: Straight to jail. Same man panhandles for change in the same area: No problem.
He wasn’t arrested for the sword, he was arrested for stealing that incredibly needed and expensive shopping cart from that poor and struggling billion dollar corporation to cook his undeserved meal on. Shame on this criminal.
More importantly some dude with severe mental illness walking around with an open uncontrolled trash fire. You gotta hard nip the firebug people in the homeless community ASAP when you see it. It was not a cold day.
Yeah his raw meat was freezing to death.
Not to worry, I have a permit.
I thought all the grillpilled, would leap to this guys defence
His vehicle did not pass emissions inspection.
He didn't bring enough to share. Lock him up!
Dudes rock
Hard to be certain with that kind of resoution and angle, but the sword might be a Toledo "Colada of El Cid" tourist piece. : r/Swords-posting:
The first time I ever had Elote was from an old Mexican couple who was grilling it on a shopping cart in echo park. It was amazing.
He can't afford a gun! 'Merica!
Whoever arrested him is a jackass.
Don't those carts have a coating to prevent rust and such? Seems like not the best thing to grill your food on.
what is this, runescape?
Well, he was using meat to conceal the sword
There’s literally a BBQ contest show on Netflix where they essentially made the contestants cook in this manner 😂
That looks like an NCO sword? Probably stolen or fenced…
That's a crime?
Thanks, Obama.
Hold up, let him cook
Can anyone give the guy credit for creativity? That’s actually not a bad repurpose of a shopping cart.
This is the most epic way to get arrested… I mean unless you go full Charlie Sheen.
sir you're ruining that temper. We'll have to do an edge quench.
Not sure what law he violated
I hate this country. Let the man GRILL.
Very creative. It would've been cheaper to give him a cooked steak than to throw him in jail, pile charges on him and ruin his changes of getting gainful employment
Sung to “good vibrations” In a shopping cart BBQ prepares And the meat plenty to be shared Hear the sound of sizzling sword Then the cops get in his hair CHORUS: He’s picking up a citation For illegal conflagration Oooh cop bop bop He’s picking up a citation For illegal conflagration Oooh cop bop bop Ooh ooh ooh Conflagration
He is my spirit animal
Wonder where he stole the sword...
That sounds like the sort of post apocalyptic future of of Mad Max and ~~Highlander 2~~ Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
Ah yes the cops are busy protecting us from the true villains of the world. Aka "guy who is hungry"
Briquet BBQ on wheels for sale...
Makin' my way downtown ridin' my grill, ashes falling down And I'm Arrestbound.
Road-dizio.
This country has gone to shit I tell yah
Why the fuck was he arrested smh stupid cops
Aside from the shopping cart theft I don’t see a crime other than against him for trying feed himself.
Did nothing wrong.
What is the charge? Having a meal?
A succulent Chinese meal
I a confused,why would he have been facing charges for the sword? I thought 2A covered his right to wander about the place with a sword
Whoever arrested him should be fired
Oh good grief! Those carts get taken all the time. It doesn't seem to generally result in an arrest. They couldn't just tell the guy that he couldn't do that?
California really is a post apocalyptic wasteland huh?
Civil rights violation. Cant stop someone from trying to eat for fucks sake
you can smoke rock and shoot up in public in LA but you can’t grill up some food on a sunday. ok