Just A Car Guy: 9/22/24

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Goldfinger, was released 60 years ago, when the storyline of a movie was so simple, just a villain smuggling gold disguised as car parts on his Rolls Royce.

Goldfinger used a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville with coachwork made from actual gold to smuggle the metal from England to Switzerland, where the body of the car is melted down and voila—he avoided some kind of banking-schmanking regulation. Once the body of the car was melted down, the original coachwork went back on and he'd return to England to repeat the operation.

https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/rolls-royce-phantom-iii

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a62262881/james-bond-goldfinger-rolls-royce/

Humanity Showers, founded by Jordan Verdin, is doing a damn fine thing, helping the homeless (because in spite of billions of dollars, the state of California isn't)

In 2014, Jordan Verdin took to the streets to assist the unhoused and document their stories through portraiture and journalism. This led to an archive of over 350 portraits and oral histories of individuals experiencing homelessness in San Diego.

From these interactions, Jordan identified two critical needs among the homeless population: the need to be seen and the need to be clean. To address these needs, Jordan began sharing the stories of those he met to combat invisibility and provided hand washing stations and wet wipes to combat the lack of hygiene. This eventually evolved into establishing Humanity Showers, a 100% volunteer mobile shower project that now provides over 2,000 showers per month in San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties.

https://www.humanityshowers.org

in 2018, police shot a Silver Lake Trader Joe's assistant manager, as they pursued a suspect who ran into the store. Last month, Los Angeles formally reached a $9.5 million settlement with the family

the $9.5 million payout is the "largest pre-trial settlement" ever paid by the city over a Los Angeles Police Department shooting.

"We are pleased that the city has acknowledged their wrongdoing and taken responsibility for causing Mely's death," plaintiffs' attorney John Taylor said in a statement. "After six years of fighting for justice for Mely, the Corado family's persistence and demands for accountability were finally recognized."

https://abc7.com/post/trader-joes-shooting-family-mely-corado-get-95-million-deadly-lapd-shooting/15250638/

It only took 6 years to wait out the process of the city fighting to absolve itself, and the police, of the shooting.