Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Security Files #3334

"Take that Trojans!"

I'm back on this creature feature "Pray for Morning" show filming in the middle of LA at Park view plaza. I've worked this location tons of times, I remember when there used to be tons of crack heads and homeless roaming these streets during the day and double at night. They some how cleaned up the place a little. We are sharing the building with a USC trojan party tonight, there has to be at least a couple hundred students here partying down.

Tojans..meh..

I look at my phone and notice that I have only 30 minutes till I'm off work, nice. These USC students are getting drunk as if this was a fraternity house. These white gals come up to a few of us acting stupid and asking questions about the movie and so forth. Not even the Mayonaise commercial phrase could save us from their stupidity. One of the girls was quiet and staring off into the park at some of the locals hanging around. Little did she know that this isn't the place to do that kind of thing giving off dirty looks, this isn't the OC. The local (african american lady in her late 20's, homeless and on drugs) steps up to the girl staring at her.

Blk Lady: What you looking at Bitch!
USC Girl: Whatever, whore.
Blk Lady: What skank? Fucking Bitch, I'll fuck your shit up!

I don't get invovled, not my party to guard. The events guard cheer onthe fight with "rip her clothes off, hit her and Kick her ass". What do you expect for minimum wage...

USC Girl: Go get a job crack whore.

her friends laugh at the insult.

Blk Lady: I do have a job slut. I'm a fucking plastic surgeon Bitch!
USC Girl: Yea right.

Black lady gives her a right to the nose. Blood gushes out of the USC girls nose, followed by screams of terror. Her friends watch in shock.

Blk Lady: I just gave you a new nose Bitch!

Blk Lady walks away.

Blk Lady: Come in my hood talking your shit, mother fucking bitch don't know who she fucking with. Stupid ass white piece of shit....

In a way I was at least hoping the fight would of lasted the rest of my time on my shift, but all it took was a Mike Tyson one hit knock out. The USC girl went back into the party full of blood crying her heart out. I bet she'll think twice before she's a smart ass in a city she's never been before.

This is why I'm a UCLA fan, we bruins know how to take care of ourselves in tough situations.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Security Files

Rabid Racoon..

Just another great day here in Boyle Heights.. I've been working on this show called Gene Generation starring Bai Ling.. She's been in tons of films.
It's close to 6pm and they're still filming. The Directors assistant comes to me informing me that somebody was attacked by a racoon. This is our 3rd week at this location and the first racoon insident that's happen since we've been there. Apparently the site rep didn't want anyone to get scared and figured the animal would'nt come out during the same time the film crew was since those creatures are nocturnal.
Myself, my guard and one of the Pa's go searching for the creature. the site rep joins us later n the hunt. Now I'm only going in to make sure the animal left our part of the closed down hospital, but the site rep is on for the kill. He killed one last week. (News that should of been told to at least me to keep an eye out for the hairy little creep)

We enter rooms and find nothing. Mind you this hospital has been closed down forever and tons of film crews have been thru here and so the inside can be rundown or shall I say falling apart.
We get a call in the radio stating that someone was bitten down in the basement. How in the hell did that thing get down there so quick.

We arrive down in the basement. If any of you who been there then you know how creepy and haunted this place is. (more on the haunted stuff in the book) The basement is very damp and full of mosquitos. there's a tunnel at the end leading towards the halfway house...(druggies, crazies you name it)..Once again we come up with nothing, but out of the gleaming light little eys glow. (thank god for my bright little flashlight.. well worth the 80 bucks) We seem to surround the little creature, but the closer we get the creature isn't that small. It's actually big, with big fangs. The creature hisses at us. The site rep who's armed with a baseball bat, I'm armed with my 12inch 2 sided blade...yes very illegal...My other guard and pa have nothing.. silly rabbits...
Before the site rep can get a good hit at the creature it leaps, now the Pa who told me

PA: If I encounter that racoon I'm going to give him five pounds of this..waving his fist around...

My thoughts were...(Okay tough guy)

Not only is the racoon big, it's also fast and jumps off the wall attacking the Pa's feet, the guy screams his heart out, kicking in evry direction. My guard who is unarmed thinks twice about getting closer and looks for a weapon. the site rep throws a chair at the Coon it runs very quickly into the dark.

I go with the site rep, but we lose it between tons of furniture and other obstacles in the way. We try to dig deep but the lights turn off in the basement. Not so much fun standing in the dark with something hissing not too far from you. Of course not only did my guard not bring nothing down with him but he also didn't bring his flashlight..(bastard)..So now the Pa is screaming bloody murder, and for our medic we have on set on the radio.

I get my flashlight out from its case, the racoon was insight not too far from me. One jump and it would of been on top of me.
It was one of those Ripley coming face to face with the Alien, just with out the slimey saliva running down its mouth.
I was just about to swing my knife when the lead pipe hit the racoon sending it down a floor below us.

ME: Fuck! Warn me if your going to do that shit!

REP: Sorry, I didn't think.

Just like one of those horror movies, when we both looked down. The body wasn't there.

Great.

We have "Michael Racoon Myers "roaming this hospital.