Stolen Wheels at NoHo Commons #1

I saw this while walking my wife and some friends to their car.

I thought the “car up on cider blocks with it’s wheels stolen” was just a cliche lazy screenwriters used when they want to describe the “bad” part of an urban environment.

Next thing you know, bums with fingerless gloves are going to be warming themselves by a file in a 55 gallon drum bellow my balcony

So, this morning I am eating breakfast and I heard a helicopter, which is not unusual. Then I realized that a helicopter has been sitting in one spot just above the lot across from me. I looked out the window and I see dozens of flashing lights. Hot damn, it’s a fire!

The “Bank Heist” isn’t my kind of place (a velvet rope in the fucking Valley?!?). From what Yelp tells me, it wasn’t the kind of place for a lot of people. Here are some excerpts:

Unfortunately, high priced drinks and just generally a really lame crowd is what you will see at Bank Heist.

If there were a way to go negative with the star ratings, I’d do it. I can’t stress emphatically enough just how bad this place is.

This is one of those places where people who like to be treated like dipshits go.

unfortunately, i couldn’t choose zero stars, because this place doesnt even deserve one.

It’s only been open since October ’07, and it’s mighty suspicious to get torched the week after the last big money holiday for awhile (New Years Eve). All and all, hopfully some cool goes in there after it get fixed up. Some place where I don’t have to stand behind a velvet rope in The Valley.

(photo set on flickr)