The Mysterious Case of the 7th Street Paperwork

By Eric Richardson
Published: Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at 06:18PM

Scattered Papers on 7th Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If you're into identity theft you might want to hurry up and head over to 7th street, where it would appear that a bunch of documents headed for the shredder have found their way onto the sidewalk. Random paperwork litters the street from Hope to Olive, and a cursory inspection showed a good number of ATM receipts along with at least a couple California tax documents.

I joked about identity theft above, but this is actually pretty serious. I didn't look too closely, but I'd be pretty shocked if the documents out there don't have social security numbers and other sensitive information on them.

One more photo after the jump...

Scattered Papers on 7th



Comments

1
L.A. guy writes:

Hey wait I see a confession written by O.J.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 12:59 AM
2
dev writes:

yeah i noticed that this afternoon too and was wondering what that was all about.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 02:22 AM
3
Anon writes:

OJ confessed. They squeezed it out of him this morning.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 07:57 AM
4
edgycated writes:

another mystery to look into: whats up with all the dead birds on the sidewalks? i was at the cal bank and trust bldg on hope and there were like 20 dead birds (finchs is think) lying dead right in front of the building, almost as if they had all ran into it. friends in other buildings had the same story.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 10:11 AM
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Eric Richardson writes:

edgycated: It wouldn't surprise me if that's exactly what happened. Have you seen the massive clouds those birds will get into above Downtown? I could easily see them catching the light wrong and barreling into the side of the building.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 10:15 AM
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Whitman Lam writes:

Dead Birds are very common in big cities with Skyscrapers. Finches, pigeons, and sparrows often fly in clusters. They crash into glass skyscrapers because they can't see them and fall to the ground... very tragic.

# on Sep.19.2007 AT 10:15 AM
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Melanie writes:

Man the birds are crazy! They've been ending up in our apartment all week! Yikes!

# on Sep.20.2007 AT 08:19 PM
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L.A. guy writes:

Dead Birds are very common in big cities with Skyscrapers. Finches, pigeons, and sparrows often fly in clusters. They crash into glass skyscrapers because they can't see them and fall to the ground... very tragic.

I searched the Internet to find out more about this, if anybody can find a link please post it.

Is it possible they are dying because of what the birds breathe, birds are very sensitive to toxic gases, birds used to be used by miners as gas-detectors (dead bird = run)?

# on Sep.20.2007 AT 09:20 PM
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Eric Richardson writes:

I'm pretty sure it is just them running into things. Check out Bert Green's post from today with video of crazy swarms of birds around the Rosslyn.

# on Sep.21.2007 AT 12:04 AM
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Ed Fuentes writes:

After working in a tower, I noticed birds hitting glass when the sky was brightly reflecting off the windows

# on Sep.21.2007 AT 12:24 AM
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urban memo writes:

speaking of birds..

i recently seen around town single bloody bird wings on streets and sidewalks. (with no one winged bird or bird splatterings within eye shot distance of the solitary wings).

# on Sep.23.2007 AT 06:40 PM
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Annette writes:

Did anyone that saw the documents take the time to call the DCBD and wait the short time it takes them to get there? There could have been a document with your name on it.

# on Sep.24.2007 AT 04:58 AM

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