Feb 15, 2013
What the police get called about in one of America’s richest towns [15 pictures]
Atherton, California is a town of about 7,000 people near San Francisco. The normal household has a yearly income in the hundreds of thousands and the median home price is over 4 million dollars. But living in the lap of luxury does not come without its troubles. Check out these selections from Atherton’s police blotter…
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White people be trippin.
Nobody ever said anything about the ethnicity of the people who reported these problems. You think just cause these people are all rich they have to be white?
Atherton, CA (2010 U.S. Census): Total Population 6,914
White 5,565
African American 75
Native American 7
Asian 911
Pacific Islander 45
Other race 95
Two or more races 216
Hispanic or Latino of any race 268
bazinga!
lol!
Bam! Can’t argue with data!
Who said it was the whites who called it in? Could it have been other races? What we have here is racism, plain and simple.
You’re right, its the 7 Native Americans of Atherton causing all that trouble!
So if you do the math, that is 1519 people of another race besides white. Thats about 22% of the population. So yes it very likely coulda been someone who wasnt white. Saying that it must be a white person doing this cuz their rich and bored is just as rascit and stereotypical as saying it must be a black person that robbed a liquor store. Unless you know the person that made the call, you cant say anything about race. Plenty of ultra wealthy black people.
Ultra-wealthy black people = rappers and professional athletes (and Nigerian princes).
Asians have a strong presence, but we can assume they call the police about the same “white people problems” that white people do.
yes
After reading #12 all I could think of was this Bill Hicks quote: “Yesterday some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in shaftesbury…”
Hah, same here.
I wish the whole world had troubles this menacing and no worse.
True dat.
These are especially sad/amusing when you read some of the other reports in the same column.
what kind of a sicko digs a hole in the street!?
This will be the first town to burn when we finally overthrow the capitalists and their burgeoisie collaborators lol.
They really have a problem with those package deliveries.
My favorite is the fifth one down, but for Redwood City. The one where someone ‘looked the type who’d be packing’.
This totally reminds me of Louis CK’s skit about white people problems. Essentially, this is when middle to upper class white people have to make up things to be mad about since their lives are so perfect! I also recommend checking out #whitepeopleproblems on Twitter. Hilarious!
Image #4, Redwood City: “A man disturbed by loud music entered a store where the music was playing,ripped out the speaker and then rejoined his companion on the patio for lunch.” WTF?! Can’t you just ask the store employees to turn the music down? Hope the store owner had him arrested for vandalism and destruction of private property, jeez!
lol, Wow, it gets to the point where they seem sarcastic in their reports out of sheer boredom “Women with finger caught in drain was reported to be alive and breathing”
Does not matter what colour the skin is, you are all nothing more than meat popsicles.
Wish those problems were all that I had.
These people need to expand their horizons, find something productive to do, experience life from another viewpoint, get a reality check from those in our world who have real problems. I know why some of the world’s population despise some Americans.
Wow.
Reading pretty much every other report on the blotter, I almost didn’t believe this to be true. Burglaries, assaults, shootings, stabbings, car jackings, and then a woman complaining about a car…passing twice…in five minutes.