California’s beaches are public, but on the sands of Malibu, one billionaire has been accused of stealing a slice of paradise — or at least a few scoops of it — for himself.
A lawsuit filed last week alleges that Mark Attanasio, billionaire businessman and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, has been using excavators to dig up sand from Broad Beach and carry it back to his house as part of an ongoing construction project.
“This case is about a private property owner using a public beach as their own personal sandbox and the disturbing conversion of a public natural resource (i.e., sand from Broad Beach) for a nearby homeowner’s personal, private use,” the lawsuit says.
Whatever they fine him is just the cost of materials
And it should be several hundred times the cost of replacing that sand, so that it’s a more economically sound move to not break the law and destroy the environment while they’re at it.
If there is sand to replace it with.
Yes, everything is awful.
as with everything else, we’ll start fixing it when it’s too late to do anything
the fine should be a percentage of his net worth. 10% sounds healthy
10%?
Minimum wage is $15080. A speeding ticket can be $209-$409. That’s 2%. He should be fined a percentage of of his wealth equal to (cost of his douchebaggery)/(minimum wage yearly)*100. Multiply by 10 for a fine
for this guy, 10% is at least $100,000,000.00 for this fine.
And he’s still a billionaire who can do whatever the fuck he wants
what are you proposing, death? christ
Not opposed to it, fuck those greedy bastards.
Everybody should go to Carbon Beach. Millionaires have been illegally blocking access for years. It’s a public beach and they’re finally paying for it in a lawsuit. Go ruin their day. Realistically they’re probably at some other expensive property across the globe.
Stealing sand, stealing indigenous land in Hawaii for your private bunker, never paying taxes, getting away with rape… when you’re rich, they let you do it.
Make it such that anywhere the sand is is now public.
〽 Anywhere the sand goes
Property rights don’t matter
To meeeeee~
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